Jack Koenig is an award-winning American actor best known for his work in theatre and television. He is most familiar to audiences for playing Michael Conway on Sex and The City, Dr. Levin in The Blacklist, and Grant Ward in Madoff. For his work in the Off-Broadway production Tabletop, he was awarded the 2001 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.
He portrayed Ronald Danzer on in the Season 1 episode The Balloonman on Gotham.
Early Life[]
Raised in Baldwin, Long Island, Koenig attended Columbia University where he majored in English because the university did not yet offer an undergraduate theatre program. Nevertheless, he studied with Estelle Parsons and Robert Neff Williams, whom Koenig credits as the best teacher he ever had.
After graduating began his acting career performing in regional theatre, appearing in Philocetetes at Delaware Theatre Company, A Quiet End with Jack Kenny at Repertory of St. Louis, Rough Crossing - Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's The Play's The Thing - at Westport Country Playhouse, and as a member of the first season of Michael Kahn's The Shakespeare Theatre in Mandragola. The following year he appeared in Julie Taymor's production of Taming of the Shrew for Theatre For a New Audience, an episode of the tv series Monsters, and won three episodes of Jeopardy!.
Career[]
Continuing to work Off-Broadway through the 90's in such productions as I'm With Ya Duke at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Voysey Inheritance at The Mint Theatre, Misalliance and Cymbeline at The Pearl, and Marco Polo Sings a Solo at The Signature Theatre, with guest appearances on Law & Order and As The World Turns. Koenig's career began to kick off after winning the 2001 Drama Desk Award for Rob Ackerman's Tabletop. Soon afterwards Koenig appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club in Mad Forest, Richard Greenberg's The American Plan and Three Days of Rain - with Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery, and Bradely Wittford - and in Everett Beekin and Big Bill at Lincoln Center, and as the young Charles Carrol in National Treasure.
The following year he made his Broadway premiere in The Lion King as Scar. His work on Broadway has continued with Oslo directed by Bartlett Sher, Accent on Youth, The Pitmen Painters, and in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two. His television credits includes guest-starring on Sex and The City - as Michael Conway - The Good Wife, Zero Hour, Forever, Unforgettable, Boardwalk Empire, Madoff, Power, Pose, Gotham, and The Blacklist. His film work includes co-starring in My Girlfriend's Boyfriend with Deborah Gibson and Valerie Perrine and appearances in I.Q. and The Proprietor.
Personal Life[]
Koenig has two children, a daughter and son. He lives in Manhattan.
