Norman Bendroth is a wise, warm and humorous actor who can play a host of characters and genres. He is a native New Englander and a bred-in-the-bone Yankee. Norman began acting in earnest over five years ago and trained with Rachel Bailit at the Lee Strasberg Stage and Theater Institute and at Boston Casting. He also studied Acting in Commercials for People 55+ with Ann Baker while there. Norman has further studied with James Dumont of On Camera Workout doing extensive script analysis and self-tape techniques. He has taken six levels of improv training at Improv Boston and participated in writing and acting in the graduation production.

Most recently, Norman played Old Dogsborough in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Bertolt Brecht) and last summer as an eccentric, agnostic, Professor of Linguistics in Love on an Elevator. It was a premier show written by a Boston playwright about ten people of all walks of life, trapped on an elevator for two hours, forced to get to know one another. In addition, Norman has been in thirteen short films playing a grandfather, zombie, middle school principal, bartender, dictator and more.

As a clergyperson in a mainline denomination for thirty-seven years, he draws upon his rich experiences of walking with people through all the slings and arrows of life which make him a compelling actor.