Ken Simon, 1963 - 2026

New York actor Ken Simon, 62, died in what appears to have been an accidental fall on June 22. Beginning in the late 1980s, Simon appeared in various NY stage companies in such varied shows as Crime and Punishment, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, I am Star Trek (playing William Shatner), Antony and Cleopatra, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Larry and the Werewolf, Saint Joan, Hamlet, Bunny Lake is Missing, and The Taming of the Cats. He also appeared in a number of films (mostly indies). His friend, writer and performer Trav S.D., writes, “He was game. He liked physical roles, and he tackled them with the child-like, antic enthusiasm that every actor ought to possess . . . Ken was the easiest person to talk to at any party, and the best laugher in any theater. I’ll always remember the sound of his laugh cutting through the crowd noise. Ken’s laugh was comforting because it tipped me off that there was a good friend in that crowd full of strangers.”