Fan Mail From Vermont!

This week, out of the blue, I received a lovely email: Andrew:  we have seen many of your performances at Vermont Stage and we were wondering if there are any DVDs or tapes of any of your performances that we might purchase, such as The Foreigner.  You have been a special gift to the Burlington …

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.  …

May 2008

King Lear Ruled! I’m thrilled that our production of King Lear at Vermont Stage was a massive hit with both critics and audience members.  The production starred Broadway veteran Donald Grody as the tragic title character.  The entire production was beautifully cast, designed and directed, and the live percussion soundscape took the production to a …

March 2007

 THE REVIEWS ARE IN!  I starred in Vermont Stage Company’s production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama, I Am My Own Wife. This one-man tour-de-force was my biggest challenge yet, and I was thrilled to perform this great play to such a fantastic response.  The production was beautifully directed by Sara Lampert Hoover, …

December 2006

I appeared in Vermont Stage Company’s second annual holiday production of Winter Tales. The 2005 show sold out and garnered rave reviews, and this year’s show did the same.  This year, I read another sharp, funny and poignant new story by noted Vermont author Chris Bohjalian: “Hark, the K-Mart Angels Sing”, and I also sang …

December 2005

I’m delighted to say that Vermont Stage Company asked me back to appear in their original holiday production, Winter Tales. The show sold out and garnered rave reviews.  Looks like the start of a great holiday tradition for the theatre!  I read a funny, sharp and wise story written especially for the occasion by noted …

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 …

January 2002

“A Godot Worth Waiting For!” The Vermont Stage Company production of Waiting for Godot was a huge hit with critics and audiences.  We received three reviews, all raves, and sold out almost every performance, turning people away at most shows even after adding extra seats.  This, despite snowstorms!  It was a wonderful experience onstage and …