Victor Koman

Victor Koman began acting at age 10 in children's community theater in Los Gatos, California. He continued through junior high and high school, in a disappointing series of supernumerary and walk-on roles. After attending the 1974 Santa Barbara Writers conference, hosted by his college professor Barnaby Conrad, Koman decided to take the great leap and continued on to Los Angeles and the siren call of Hollywood. His first acting turns were in two AFI student films: The Hang of It and A Date with Julie. Living in a women's restroom on Sorority Row across the street from UCLA in Westwood, Koman focused on screenwriting before moving to the notorious AnarchoVillage in Long Beach, California. Comforting his crushed psyche with the tacit (and sometimes shouted) belief that his authorial vision was decades ahead of the studios, he returned to acting after being personally singled out by legendary director Robert Wise, who said at a cattle call for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), "Those four tall guys--can we make them rubber-heads?" That Mr. Wise, later in the day, decided to hide Koman's character behind a phalanx of other extras failed to deter him in his career and new roles quickly appeared 17 years later in such films as Fugitive Rage (1996) and Rapid Assault (1997). Though they did not appear in any scene together, Victor Koman worked as an extra in Fred Olen Ray's Droid Gunner (1995), which debuted his daughter Vanessa Greyshock in her first speaking role as the street waif encountered by lead Marc Singer They also appeared in a party scene together in Greyshock's starring role in Ray's Little Miss Magic (1998), as well as playing father/daughter tourists in Billy Frankenstein (1998). When not on screen, Victor Koman is an award-winning novelist. He won the Prometheus Award three times: The Jehovah Contract (1988), Solomon's Knife (1990), and Kings of the High Frontier (1997), each of which he has also adapted into screenplays. A glutton for punishment, he also worked for 16 years at Boeing as a web application developer, in addition to earning his BSIS, MBA, and a PhD in Information Assurance & Security in his spare time. He lives in Orange County, California, with his wife of 36 years and three cats of lesser periods of acquaintance.