Jack Koenig (born May 14, 1959 in Rockville Centre, New York) is an
American actor best known for his work in theatre and television. He
is most familiar to audiences for playing Michael Conway on Sex and
The City, Dr. Levin in The Blacklist, Ronald Danzer in Gotham, Defense
Attorney Swift in Law & Order, and Grant Ward in Madoff. For his work
in the Off-Broadway production Tabletop, he was awarded the 2001 Drama
Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.Raised in Baldwin,
Long Island, Koenig attended Columbia University where he majored in
English because the university did not offer an undergraduate degree
in theatre at the time. Nevertheless, he studied with Estelle Parsons
and Robert Neff Williams, whom Koenig credits as the best teacher he
ever had. While enrolled at Columbia, he starred in the school's
production of Macbeth as the eponymous character and as The Boy in The
Fantasticks through a special arrangement with the Off-Broadway
production which was then in its 17th year.After graduating, Koenig
began his acting career performing in regional theatre, appearing in
Philocetetes at Delaware Theatre Company, A Quiet End with Jack Kenny
at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Rough Crossing - Tom Stoppard's
adaptation of Ferenc Molnár's The Play's The Thing - at Westport
Country Playhouse, and as a member of the first season of Michael
Kahn's The Shakespeare Theatre in Mandragola. The following year he
appeared in Julie Taymor's production of Taming of the Shrew for
Theatre for a New Audience at North Shore Music Theatre, an episode of
Monsters, and won three episodes of Jeopardy!.Continuing to work
Off-Broadway through the 90's he performed in a variety of productions
including Grand Finale at Ubu Repertory Theatre, Herb Gardner's I'm
With Ya Duke with David Margulies at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The
Voysey Inheritance at The Mint, Misalliance and Cymbeline at Pearl
Theatre, and John Guare's Marco Polo Sings a Solo with Bruce Norris
and Polly Holliday at Signature Theatre Company, co-starred in My
Girlfriend's Boyfriend with Deborah Gibson, Chris Bruno, and Valerie
Perrine, appeared in I.Q. and The Proprietor, and guest-starred across
television on Law & Order, The Cosby Mysteries, Now and Again, Sex and
The City, and As The World Turns. Koenig's career began to kick off
after winning the 2001 Drama Desk Award for Rob Ackerman's hit play,
Tabletop, which was met with unanimous critical praise.[31][32] Soon
afterwards he appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club in Cary Churchill's
Mad Forest and Richard Greenberg's The American Plan and Three Days of
Rain - with Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford -
in Richard Greenberg's Everett Beekin and A.R. Gurney's Big Bill at
Lincoln Center, and as the young Charles Carrol in National Treasure.
American actor best known for his work in theatre and television. He
is most familiar to audiences for playing Michael Conway on Sex and
The City, Dr. Levin in The Blacklist, Ronald Danzer in Gotham, Defense
Attorney Swift in Law & Order, and Grant Ward in Madoff. For his work
in the Off-Broadway production Tabletop, he was awarded the 2001 Drama
Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.Raised in Baldwin,
Long Island, Koenig attended Columbia University where he majored in
English because the university did not offer an undergraduate degree
in theatre at the time. Nevertheless, he studied with Estelle Parsons
and Robert Neff Williams, whom Koenig credits as the best teacher he
ever had. While enrolled at Columbia, he starred in the school's
production of Macbeth as the eponymous character and as The Boy in The
Fantasticks through a special arrangement with the Off-Broadway
production which was then in its 17th year.After graduating, Koenig
began his acting career performing in regional theatre, appearing in
Philocetetes at Delaware Theatre Company, A Quiet End with Jack Kenny
at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Rough Crossing - Tom Stoppard's
adaptation of Ferenc Molnár's The Play's The Thing - at Westport
Country Playhouse, and as a member of the first season of Michael
Kahn's The Shakespeare Theatre in Mandragola. The following year he
appeared in Julie Taymor's production of Taming of the Shrew for
Theatre for a New Audience at North Shore Music Theatre, an episode of
Monsters, and won three episodes of Jeopardy!.Continuing to work
Off-Broadway through the 90's he performed in a variety of productions
including Grand Finale at Ubu Repertory Theatre, Herb Gardner's I'm
With Ya Duke with David Margulies at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The
Voysey Inheritance at The Mint, Misalliance and Cymbeline at Pearl
Theatre, and John Guare's Marco Polo Sings a Solo with Bruce Norris
and Polly Holliday at Signature Theatre Company, co-starred in My
Girlfriend's Boyfriend with Deborah Gibson, Chris Bruno, and Valerie
Perrine, appeared in I.Q. and The Proprietor, and guest-starred across
television on Law & Order, The Cosby Mysteries, Now and Again, Sex and
The City, and As The World Turns. Koenig's career began to kick off
after winning the 2001 Drama Desk Award for Rob Ackerman's hit play,
Tabletop, which was met with unanimous critical praise.[31][32] Soon
afterwards he appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club in Cary Churchill's
Mad Forest and Richard Greenberg's The American Plan and Three Days of
Rain - with Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford -
in Richard Greenberg's Everett Beekin and A.R. Gurney's Big Bill at
Lincoln Center, and as the young Charles Carrol in National Treasure.
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