Rafi Silver

Rafi Silver is a professional actor, writer, and certified Mindfulness Meditation instructor. At Columbia University, he teaches The Mindful Actor, a class in which he integrates mindfulness meditation, Buddhist philosophy, and sports psychology into an actor's approach to their craft. Rafi is also a co-teacher of the Professional Practice class. In addition to Columbia University, Rafi has taught courses at NYU's MFA Graduate Acting Program and Syracuse University's Tepper Semester, and served as a featured teacher for the National Alliance of Acting Teachers (NAAT) at Juilliard. Rafi owns and operates PeakMind Performance, where he privately trains professional actors, athletes, and business professionals using his mindfulness-integrative performance coaching. Clients include professional actors worldwide, countless CrossFit athletes, including a Masters CrossFit Games top-10 finisher (8th Fittest in the World), and NCAA Division 1 athletes based across the country.

As an actor, Rafi has a recurring role in Amazon's hit new series Fallout, playing Mr. House's public-facing persona. Other Film/TV credits include recurring roles in Law and Order: Organized Crime, Manifest, Shameless, American Dad, NCIS, NCIS LA, and Scandal, as well as episodes of Evil, Happy Endings, We Bare Bears, Ben and Kate, Fringe, Elementary, and Madam Secretary. His theatre credits include The Effect at Studio Theatre DC, where he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Best Lead Actor. Rafi holds an MFA from NYU's Graduate Acting Program, a BFA from Syracuse University's Acting Program, is a certified Mindfulness Meditation Instructor through Dharma Moon and the US Tibet House, and is a graduate of George Mumford's Mindful Athlete training course.