I was at an appointment-only commercial audition recently where I was reminded that there are still plenty of actors out there who are getting in their own way even before they set foot into the audition room. The audition was running late, and the monitor checking people in and collecting headshots had her hands full. …
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Happy 100th Anniversary to Actors’ Equity Association!
United We Stand: I would like to offer a heartfelt Happy 100th Anniversary to AEA and all the people past and present who help keep it running strong. Thank you for protecting and promoting professional stage actors and stage managers in this country for a full century. Here’s to many more!
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 …
A Christmas Carol at Hanover Theatre in Worcester MA December 2012
While I was born in Cambridge, MA and raised in Belmont, MA, the vagaries of Fate are such that for all these years I had never actually been hired to perform at a theatre in Massachusetts! That all changed in a wonderful way in November and December of 2012, when I was hired to play …
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The Rave Reviews Are In for The Dangers of Electric Lighting!
There are only two papers that review Shadowland Theatre productions up here in Ellenville, NY, but happily reviewers from both came to see The Dangers of Electric Lighting and both loved it. The first link also has a number of photos from the show. I’ll be posting a few pix or a slideshow soon. Enjoy! Review …
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The Dangers of Electric Lighting at Shadowland Theatre!
This all happened so quickly that I didn’t even find the time to post that I was cast in this production, but I open tonight as Nikola Tesla in the NY Premiere of The Dangers of Electric Lighting, about the War of the Currents between Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. It’s at Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville, …
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You Never Know Where I’ll Turn Up Next
I had to laugh the other day. Well, I laugh at some point pretty much every day, but this was for a particular reason. My friend Beth Hylton, a fellow UNC-Chapel Hill PATP graduate, and co-star in the recent Maltz Jupiter Theatre production of The 39 Steps, sent me an e-mail to let me know …
The Violet Hour Opens Tonight!
“The Violet Hour” opens officially tonight! Don’t miss this remarkable play in its first NY revival. It’s a beautiful production and only runs through 3/25! I am thrilled to be working with such a superbly talented cast (John P Keller, Cheryl Freeman, Lincoln Thompson, and Heather Lee Harper) and director (Nathaniel Shaw) and stage manager …
The Violet Hour Rehearsals Are Looking Great!
I’m getting extremely excited about this production of The Violet Hour. The more we explore Richard Greenberg’s dazzling and intricate play, the more funny, heartbreaking, and profound it seems to become. This is a beautiful piece of writing that deserves to be a major hit. And I have to say, this production is looking like …
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I’ve Been Cast in the First New York Revival of Richard Greenberg’s “The Violet Hour”!
I’m very excited. This has been a very good week. I landed a neat role in a short animated film, and now I’ve been cast in the plum role of Gidger in the first New York revival of Richard Greenberg’s fascinating play, The Violet Hour! It’s being produced by the Active Theater here in NYC …