Bio

Executive Director and Founder of INTUITIVE LEARNING SYSTEMS, offering  Spolin Games workshops for professionals in all fields as well as conducting special workshops for business, to enhance communication and creativity in the workplace.

He is a former student and protege of Viola Spolin – known as the Mother of the Improvisational movement.  He began his association with Ms. Spolin in 1977 and has conducted many lecture  demonstrations  of Spolin Games techniques to various groups and companies across the  U.S.  and  Canada. He is founder and director of The Spolin Games Players, a group of established actors performing Spolin Games in Los Angeles.

Gary has pursued a dramatic acting career, highlighted by his performance in the award winning film, QUEST FOR FIRE. Other film credits include  THE  WIZARD  OF  SPEED  AND TIME, and a film parody of "My Dinner With Andre", entitled MY BRUNCH WITH ANDREA (which he also wrote and produced).  On television, Gary has a co-starring role to Ben Vareen on Hallmark Properties' Emmy winning ZOOBILEE ZOO as the comical Bravo Fox, an Actor/Impressario extraordinaire.  He also contributed to the show as a writer as well with many storylines and an episode or two.  He has been a  featured guest in two editions of FAERIE TALE THEATRE; a writer and series regular on The Disney Channel's YOU AND ME, KID; and his face may be recognized from TV guest appearances and commercials.

Gary's other activities include looping for film and TV, including providing various background voices for Star Trek the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager as well as hundreds of other TV and film projects.

Gary was half of the very popular comedy duo SCHWARTZ & CHUNG. He and partner Caleb Chung have appeared on TV numerous times with their comedy. The latest being regular contributors to America’s Funniest People in an original comedy segment called “Cool Ways to Scare Your Mom.” L.A. Parent  Magazine calls Schwartz and Chung ‘the clean cut kings of kids comedy’. They have also performed in many corporate venues for IBM, EXXON, TRW, Sperry Rand, Stanley Tools and several Pharmaceutical companies.

Currently Gary resides in North Bend WA. He is founder of The Valley Center Stage and teaches theater games, acting for animation and writes on Spolin's work, a little fiction and other products. He is the voice of Pleo the first of Ugobe's life forms..