Born in Garden City, in Long Island, New York, Paul Zaloom was educated at The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, and began his entertainment career at Goddard College with artists in residence the Bread and Puppet Theater, a troupe specializing in self-invented, home-made theatre.

One of their performance locales was Coney Island, where Zaloom is said to have given advice to the " unofficial Mayor of Coney Island ," Dick Zigun, on how to bring in the crowds.

* Roy G. Biv was a recurring character in the children's television series Beakman's World, played by Paul Zaloom.

* 1951 – Paul Zaloom, American actor and puppeteer

Paul Finley Zaloom ( born December 14, 1951 ) is an American actor and puppeteer, best known for his role as the character Beakman on the television show Beakman's World.

Zaloom has also written, designed and performed eleven full length one-man shows, including Fruit of Zaloom, Sick But True, Mighty Nice, and The Mother of All Enemies, the latter a shadow-puppet show featuring traditional Mid-west Asian comic puppet character Karagoz.

Zaloom has performed his work across the U. S. at many types of venues, including the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Walker Arts Center, Spoleto Festival U. S. A., UCLA Performing Arts Series, the American Repertory Theater, L. A .' s Museum of Contemporary Art, King Tut's Wah-Wah Hut, and hundreds of others.

The program starred Paul Zaloom as Beakman, an eccentric scientist who performed comical experiments and demonstrations in response to viewer mail to illustrate various scientific concepts from density to electricity to flatulence.

The Colony provided facilities and inspiration to over 1500 artists, and produced performances by New York city based artists who resided there: Paul Zaloom, Charles Moore African Dancers, Sachiyo Ito Japanese Dance, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Eiko & Koma, Gail Conrad Tap Dance, the Chinese Acrobats of Taipei, the Brubecks, and many more, as well as the first US International Conference on Theatre Anthropology featuring key speakers Eugenio Barba, Richard Schechner, and Edith Turner.

The Industrial Engineering department is currently headed by Dr. Victor Zaloom, with Doctor Brian Craig as interim Department Chair.

In 1992 Zaloom starred in the cable TV children's science program Beakman's World.

Paul Zaloom has produced two films ; the first is a mockumentary entitled In Smog and Thunder: The Great War of the Californias, recounting a fictitious war between Los Angeles and San Francisco, released in 2003.

Zaloom has received a Village Voice Obie Award, an American Theater Wing Design Award, New York Dance and Performance Award ( the “ Bessie ”), LA Weekly Theater Award, and four Citations of Excellence in the Art of Puppetry from UNIMA-USA.

Zaloom is openly gay and has a daughter, Amanda Israel Finley, with his former wife Jayne Israel.

Notable writers and performers have participated in the theater, including children's theater performer Paul Zaloom and writer Grace Paley.

The show's host, Paul Zaloom, still performs as Beakman in live appearances around the globe.

Boring ( also played by Paul Zaloom, in a dual role ) makes appearances and talks about various science topics.

Zaloom also appeared as various ' guest scientists ' and historic figures, such as Thomas A. Edison, Robert H. Goddard, and Philo T. Farnsworth.

The selection of music and dialogue approximates the flow of the movie itself, and was compiled by actor Jack Nicholson, who cowrote the film's shooting script.

William Shatner, who portrayed James T. Kirk in the original Star Trek series, also cowrote a book " I'm Working on That " in which he investigated how Star Trek technology was becoming feasible.

His first major film as director, Dark Star ( 1974 ), was a science fiction black comedy that he cowrote with Dan O ' Bannon ( who later went on to write Alien, borrowing freely from much of Dark Star ).

Billie Holiday claimed in Lady Sings the Blues, that she cowrote the music to the song with Meeropol and Sonny White, but in fact, Meeropol was the sole writer of both lyrics and melody to this haunting plea for civil rights.

Actress / screenwriter Guinevere Turner, who cowrote the film with Mary Harron, was originally slated to star as Bettie Page but the role was given to Gretchen Mol when producers had difficulty raising money.

" The show was Sam's idea, and he more or less cowrote the libretto.

Eisner cowrote the screenplay for The Mutant Chronicles, which was released in 2009 and stars Thomas Jane and John Malkovich.

The Hades Factor, which she cowrote with Robert Ludlum, was a CBS television miniseries in April 2006.

" In 1988, Waits performed in Big Time, a surreal concert movie and soundtrack which he cowrote with his wife.

Logan received the Pulitzer Prize at the age of forty for the libretto of South Pacific, which he cowrote with Oscar Hammerstein II.

Most famous for her novel Caballero: A Historical Novel, which she cowrote with Eve Raleigh in the later 1930s.

Documentarian William Whitehead also wrote or cowrote a number of shows for Ideas.

" Three years later, Dozier cowrote " Infidelity " and " Suffer " with Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall for the British pop-soul band's second album, Men and Women.

A keen traveller despite chronic weak health, he cowrote ( with W. B. Mason ) the 1891 edition of A Handbook for Travellers in Japan, of which revisions appeared later.

During 1997-2001 Marcello produced and wrote / cowrote songs for various artists in his own studio, " GEM Studios ", in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Fund cowrote a 1992 book, Cleaning House: America's Campaign for Term Limits ( ISBN 0-89526-516-8 ) with James Coyne.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American exploitation-horror film, directed and produced by Tobe Hooper, who cowrote it with Kim Henkel.

In 1981, Murphey made his first film appearance in Hard Country, which he cowrote.

He also cowrote a George Formby film, No Limit ( 1935 ).

Druyan and Sagan cowrote the books Comet, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, and sections of The Demon-Haunted World.

Hooper and Kim Henkel cowrote the screenplay and formed Vortex, Inc. with Henkel as president and Hooper as vice president.

Ice-T cowrote the band's music and lyrics with lead guitarist Ernie C, and took on the duties of lead vocalist, even though he felt that he did not have a great singing voice.

The same four also appeared on Malcolm McLaren's 1982 album Duck Rock and the 1982 album The Lexicon of Love by ABC, on which Dudley also cowrote a track and began her scoring career.

Joe Sample of The Crusaders cowrote the title song, " Adventures in Paradise ", and Crusaders ' producer Stewart Levine, coproduced the album.

Bigby cowrote " Funky is the Drummer ", recorded by Joe Walsh and Michael Stanley on the Friend and Legends album.

Logan cowrote, coproduced, and directed the 1952 musical Wish You Were Here.

After retiring from the CIA, he cowrote The New KGB: Engine of Soviet Power ( 1985 ) with former CIA intelligence officer William R. Corson.

His Erdős number is 1: he cowrote 50 joint papers with Paul Erdős beginning in 1976 and is among the three mathematicians that most frequently co-authored with Erdős.

His parents cowrote a series of novels together.

She wrote or cowrote 166 papers in total, including descriptions of 1147 new species and subspecies, 63 new genera, one subfamily, 3 families and a superfamily, as well as other nomenclatural novelties.