Armin Shimerman has dabbled in diverse arenas. Most people are familiar with his portrayals of Quark on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Principal Snyder on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or an assortment of judges and anal retentive beaurocrats. He's played over Sixty different characters on television and had major recurring roles as Pascal in Beauty and the Beast, Cousin Bernie in Brooklyn Bridge, Tommy Walker on the Invisible Man (for which he won a Roswell award), and Edmund Graves on David E. Kelley's Girls Club."

Immediately after graduation from UCLA with a degree in English, he apprenticed at the prestigious San Diego Old Globe Shakespeare Theatre and eventually took over the lead comic roles. Immediately afterward, he emigrated to New York where whithin a year he was performing for Joseph Papp in the Highly acclaimed production of 3 Penny Opera. He went on to work many years on Broadway in St. Joan with Lynn Redgrave at the Cirlcle in the Square, Broadway with Teri Garr and Glen Close, and finally Richard Rogers' last musical I Remember Mama.

Years of work in Regional Theater followed including Stage West, Connecticut Shakespeare Festival, Vermont Champlain Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory, Rutgers' Mason Gross Theater, Los Angeles Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Tyrone Gurthrie Theater and Seattle's ACT.

His last stage endevor in Pinter's Birthday Party was nominated for best lead performance by the prestigious Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. Currently, he's singing and dancing and brushing up his Shakespare in Standup Shakespeare.

In addition, he has co-wrote Sci-Fi novels for Pocket Books: The 34th Rule, The Merchant Prince Outrageous Fortune. he is currently penning a Tudor mystery, The Toad-eater. This is in conjunction with years of teaching Elizabethan Rhetoric.

Recently Armin completed six years of service as a national officer of the Screen Actors Guild where among other things he negotiated the current TV/Film contract.