Ezra LeBank

Ezra grew up in the mountains in rural Oregon. He was picked up by Judy Savage of the Savage Agency when he was 14, and subsequently cast in the regular company at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in the summer of 2000. He moved to New York to pursue further training in the Acting Conservatory at SUNY Purchase, where he became interested in physical theatre in addition to more traditional acting. Upon graduating he apprenticed under Felix Ivanov, and taught with him at Juilliard before being offered a position as the Head of Movement at The University of Montana in Missoula. He created his own company, and toured productions through the US and Europe, earning praise as "a virtuoso physical actor" (Martin Denton, nytheatre), "a lithe gymnast in ripped jeans" (Skylar Browning, The Independent), and "one of those people who it might genuinely be pretty entertaining to watch reading a phonebook" (Kristen Innes, The List, Scotland). He was a member of Kinding Sindaw, a dance theatre company in residence at La MaMa ETC, and has trained and taught with Pilobolus Dance Theatre. In the fall of 2011 Ezra moved to Los Angeles to accept a position as the Head of Movement in the Department of Theatre Arts at California State University, Long Beach.