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Category: performing

  • The Reckless Life

    Here’s a treat: a modern picture of me with hair… though not actual hair. Earlier this year (March & April) I had a role (in fact, three roles) in a play called “Reckless” (by Craig Lucas), in the Circle Theatre at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre. One of my characters was an insincere, smarmy game show host…

  • The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

    This past summer I got to drop my pants in public…and people paid to see it! The name of the Chattanooga Theatre Centre play was “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940,” directed by Suzanne Smartt. In case it’s not obvious from the picture, I’m portraying a German Gestapo agent pretending to be an Irish tenor…

  • Naming the dead, without dread

    It was more a firing line than a Vietnam skirmish. Assembled in a fairly straight line of chairs placed side by side, the seven of us sat facing an actual live audience — awaiting their reaction while trying not to anticipate it. I spent last Friday and Saturday night engaged in this ritual. Our goal…