Ron Marasco studied acting at the Moscow Art Theatre and has a B.A
from Fordham University and an M.A and Ph.D. in Theatre from UCLA. He is
a Professor of Theatre at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
As an actor, on television, Marasco has appeared on Entourage, Medium,
The West Wing The X-Files, Family Law, Judging Amy, Murphy Brown,
Good-Vs-Evil, Charmed, Angel, Martial Law, Enterprise, Nip/Tuck, Lost,
Bones, and in the movie The 40-year old Virgin. He played the role of Mr. Caspar on the critically acclaimed Freaks and Geeks. He played opposite screen legend Kirk Douglas in the movie Illusion,
for which he also wrote the award-winning screenplay.
Onstage, in New
York and Los Angeles, Marasco has appeared in such plays as Sophistry, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, American Iliad, School For Wives, Modigliani, Ghetto at the Mark Taper Forum, Casual Sex at the Groundlings and in the Los Angeles premiere of the Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens musical Lucky Stiff. Among his directing credits are Julius Caesar, Fifth of July, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Twelfth Night, The Black Pope, Noises Off, Hamlet, Rumors, and most recently The Elephant Man. He won the 1997 LA Weekly Award as BEST DIRECTOR for his production of Modigliani. The play also won for BEST REVIVAL. For the same production he won a DRAMA-LOGUE AWARD for directing and one for acting in the production.
His screen play for the movie Illusion won the Best Screenplay Award at the East Hampton Film Festival. His book Notes to an Actor
was named by the American Library Association as one of the
“Outstanding Academic Books of 2008.” He is the co-author of "About Grief" (2010) about teaching the subject of grief to students.
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