As an appleseed in JOHNNY APPLESEED2) What was your most recent show? What job/role? Currently I work as an Actor/Interpreter for Colonial Williamsburg’s Revolutionary City where I portray James Innes, John Beckley, and Edmund Randolph.
As Major James Innes
As John Beckley
As Edmund Randolph with Amaree Cluff as Elizabeth Betsy NicholasHowever, my last stage play I portrayed Norman Dewars in THE NORMAN CONQUESTS. As Norman Dewars
As Norman Dewars, The Norman Conquests3) What was your favorite show/role?
LOVE LETTERS by AR GURNEY where I played Andrew Makepeace Ladd III. This was my senior project in high school where I co-directed, co-starred, and co-designed this show with my cast mate and crew. We broke all of Mr. Gurney’s rules regarding his show and had a blast doing it.
As Andrew Makepeace Ladd III with my co-star Melissa Wilde (Smith) as Melissa Gardner 4) What was your most challenging show/role?
This is a tie for me: Man from THE TURN OF THE SCREW or Blake Eaton from HOLE IN THE SKY.
5) What is the most bizarre show or role you've ever done?
I would have to say Revolutionary City at Colonial Williamsburg is the most bizarre show I have ever been a part of.
6) Has anyone ever written a show for you?
Not for me, however, I have been told on a couple of occasions that I have inspired composite characters in several shows.
7) Have you ever quit a show to accept a better one?
Nope.
8) Have you ever completely blown character on stage?
I have to say yes cause I am sure I have…but honestly I can’t remember specifically when.
9) What show(s) are you just dying to do?
BILOXI BLUES, CELEBRITY ROW, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, and TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
10) Have you ever done one of your "dream" shows?
MACBETH (as Banquo and Macbeth understudy)
As Banquo in Macbeth11) Who was/were your favorite director(s)?
John Remington, the man who inspired my career and Craig McIntosh who has always been there to advise and guide me to become better. And I wish I could have been directed in a show by my professor Loren Reynolds he is one of the best I’ve seen and yet to work with.
12) Who was your least favorite director?
There are a couple that come to mind and they know who they are.
13) What is the most surprising role you have ever been offered?
Lt. Yolland in TRANSLATIONS by Brian Friel
14) Have you ever injured yourself onstage or offstage?
Nothing serious…but have suffered wounds in combat yes.
15) What show(s) have you done multiple times?
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Fyedka round one. Constable round two.)
TAMING OF THE SHREW (Gremio round one. Grumio round two.)
THE SPOILERS (Roy Glennister both times)
16) Have you ever had an onstage kiss?
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Fyedka)
SCAPINO! (Leonardo)
MACBETH (Macbeth: the understudy show)
TRANSLATIONS (Lt. Yolland)
MOVE OVER MRS. MARKHAM (Henry Lodge)
LEND ME A TENOR (Tito Morelli)
17) What was your scariest moment in a show?
SCAPINO! The 2nd story railing I was holding onto broke away from the set and I almost fell on top a spear being pointed at me by one of the other actors onstage while I fell/scrambled down the set.
18) What is your best show memory?
My senior year of high school I was a part of the best theatre program in Oregon. My friend Melissa Wilde (now Smith) and I won the state acting competition for the Duo Serious Experienced category with our selection from LOVE LETTERS…I will always remember us being the last two standing on the stage at the end of the day and getting the opportunity to perform right there in front of all the theatre programs represented at state that year. Also, Melissa and I were a part of CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD that was selected as one of the best shows in Oregon that same year. We got the opportunity to travel to Eugene and compete at the state level. Both that cast and Melissa and I were selected to showcase at the International Thespian Festival at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska. Melissa and I finished in the Top 4 that year and we all had several amazing road trips that year…memories that I will always treasure.
19) What is your worst show memory? Fred Phelps and his so-called church the Westboro Baptists putting out a fax and fliers claiming I and my fellow cast mates of THE LARAMIE PROJECT were on our way to hell to join Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood for being a part of that show.
20) What is your saddest show memory?
HOLE IN THE SKY…the entire show is about the second tower that fell on 9/11. We played composite characters that were based on the people who worked and died in that tower. The show all takes place in the time it took for the tower to fall after impact. This tower was the one where no one survived above the impact. This was a very sad and yet very rewarding show. I received an American College Theatre Festival/Kennedy Center National Selection Committee Award for Excellence in Acting for my portrayal of Blake Eaton, the dead man on the desk.
21) Do you have any theatrical superstitions?
I did until I actual did the play Macbeth more commonly referred to as the “Scottish Play” for those who have yet to perform in it.
As Stanley in Brighton Beach Memoirs
As The Constable in Fiddler on the Roof (2nd time)
As Grumio in Taming of the Shrew (2nd time)
As Grumio in Taming of the Shrew (2nd time)
As John McAdams portraying Stephen Mead Johnson, Unitarian minister in The Laramie Project
As Jim Stools in Nice People Dancing To Good Country Music
As Jesus Costazuela in The Odd Couple Female Version 
As a French Soldier in the Scarlet Pimpernel 
As Dr. Curtis Franklin in Children of A Lesser God
As Roy Glennister in The Spoilers with my co-stars Shannon O'Rourke (McClellan), Lacey Sievers (Lichi), and Andrea Harris
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