Education
University of California, Los Los Angeles
University of California, Los Los Angeles
Ringer’s books include Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles, a critical analysis of theatrical self-awareness in the seven Sophoclean tragedies,: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi, which Alan Rich of the Los Angeles Weekly described as “an uncommonly well-told accounting of Monteverdi"s operatic legacy,” and Ringer is married to director Barbara Bosch, for whom he played Falstaff in his own adaptation of the two parts of William Shakespeare"s Henry IV as well as Polonius and the Gravedigger in The Heart of My Mystery: The Hamlet Project. His performances for other directors include Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Zeus in Iliad, Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night"s Dream, and Baptista in Taming of the Shrew.
Ringer is a Professor of Theatre Arts and holds the title of Distinguished Chair at Marymount Manhattan College.
