Theater News:
 

Had some fun performing with Ed Scutt at the Atheneum June 6, 2003 — Who's on first?

I have been lucky enough to join the Geriactors in late 2000, and have appeared with them now in The Second Shepherds' Play, Shakespeare Over Easy or Where There's a Will There's Our Way, About Time,  Story Theater and We Were Thereat assorted venues in Western New York.  We have a new Christmas program, first performed December 2006, and are working on a seventh program, Wisdom From a Park Bench.  Here's the current cast of characters.  If you want to hire us, please contact me.

On acting as a career: "If you have a choice and would be reasonably happy doing something else, by all means go and do something else"  Michael Shurtleff  Audition  Walker: NY 1978, p 134.

"Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity.  Every Frenchman is different.  But all actors the world over are similiar — in Paris, Prague, or the back of beyond.  An actor is someone who in early childhood consents to exhibit himself in public for the rest of his life to an anonymous public.  Without that basic consent, which has nothing to do with talent, which goes deeper than talent, no one can become an actor."  Milan Kundera The Incredible Lightness of Being  [tr. Michael Henry Heim]

". . . .Aeschylus did not invent theater to have it end up a bunch of chorus kids wondering which of them will go to Kitty Kat Heaven" John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation

" . . .one must take a part, assume a character, stand ready in a sensible way to play the fool . . ."  Herman Melville, The Confidence Man

". . . people who eat nuts in theaters do this more when actors are bad . . ."  Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, [tr.] T. Irwin, Hackett:Indianapolis

There's an audition line for some Rochester community theaters: 234-6789

my credits

UR International Theater Program (past productions)

OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL CONTACTS:  Web pages for many Rochester, NY, area theater-relayed organizations (condensed from Bob Weeks' list, purged and updated 5/11/07):

If a link fails, email me the correct link and I'll correct it.  If you don't know the correct link, I will simply remove the incorrect link.  (If you want to be added to this list, you can also let me know.)

Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester
Blackfriars Theatre
Bristol Valley Theatre, Naples NY
Center Stage/JCC (Jewish Community Center)
Downstairs Cabaret Theatres
Eastman School of Music Concerts
Eventsdirectory.com
Everyone's Theatre Company
Gates Community Theatre
Genesee Valley Council on the Arts
Geneseo Community Players
Geva Theatre
Great Lakes Productions (Joey & Maria's Comedy Wedding, etc.)
Hesperus
Penfield Players
Mystery Company of the Finger Lakes
NTID Performing Arts (National Technical Institute for the Deaf at RIT)
Nuts And Bolts Comedy Improv
Off-Monroe Players
Pittsford Musicals
Rochester Broadway Theatre League
RochesterTalent.com
Shakespeare Company of Greater Rochester
Shipping Dock Theatre
STAGES
SUNY Brockport School of Arts & Performance
Sword and Scarab