Exit the King–Remembering Actor Donald Grody

One evening last week, I went to refill a small portable bottle of non-aspirin pain reliever pills that I keep in my audition bag.  I opened both the jumbo Costco-sized bottle and the little travel size bottle, and filled the little one with pills from the big one.  I replaced the lid on the large …

Vermont Stage Bids Fond Farewell to Artistic Director Mark Nash

After a decade of serving the Burlington community with an endlessly varied and ambitious array of theatrical productions, Artistic Director Mark Nash has decided it’s time for him to move on and try something new.  Mark has hired me for a number of productions over the last decade, so when he called to invite me …

September 2009

A Vermont Stage Gala! Vermont Stage Company invited me to take part in their 10th Anniversary Gala.  I was honored.  I presented scenes from our huge VSC hit productions of The Foreigner and King Lear, and helped narrate the entire evening, alongside Artistic Director Mark Nash, and his wife and Associate Artistic Director, Kathryn Blume.  …

October 2005

FOREIGNER X3!  I played Charlie in Vermont Stage Company’s production of The Foreigner. This was my third production of this great comedy, and I found new surprises with the Vermont Stage cast.  Artistic Director Mark Nash, who directed Waiting for Godot, directed me again for this show, which was a huge critical and box office …

December 2001

I’ve been cast as Vladimir in Waiting for Godot at Vermont Stage Company in Burlington, Vermont Mark Nash, Artistic Director of VSC, is directing this production, which performs  January 23rd-February 3rd.  This is a dream role for me, a wonderful cast & production staff, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.  Special thanks to agent Jerre …