honours degree. Following York I gave up the acting career and headed out
West to chill out and live a normal life for a while. I lived in Banff, and
worked at the smallest Hudson's Bay store in the country. I spent four years
getting to know the back-country better. I would go camping every
opportunity I had, and never once ran into a bear! I never pursued any arts
while there. Not acting, writing or directing.
in the Rough (SITR) on The Two Noble Kinsmen, playing Artesius and Rycas. I spent the next three summers with SITR acting in All's Well That Ends Well, (Lord Dumaine), King John (Lewis The Dauphin) (also assisted the producer), and Titus Andronicus (Bassianus/The Messenger).
I also appeared onstage at Buddies in Bad Times in Platform 9/Die In Debt's production of Megatropolis (A King's Man), and at The Rivoli in I Still Know You Did a Fringe Play Last Summerworks (Freddie Jason Michaels).
I shot a commercial for a local sub shop named Chubby Subby (wide open for interpretation), and did some voice-over work for a web cartoon www.chillybeach.com.
I do not have an agent nor have I had one ever, believing that I'd
rather find work on my own- which ends up being tidbits here and there,
but
is at least work that I have dug up, and projects that I want and like
to do. It's amazing how well friendships count in this business- most
of the
work has been through referral or with people I know directly
In the fall of 2000, I produced/acted in Linda Griffiths'
The
Darling Family: A Duet for Three, which has been
picked up by The Centaur Theatre for their Walk
On The Wild Side Festival in February 2001. I am currently looking
at producing more pieces of work that will represent myself as an actor.
I have been writing scripts for the past year and though
I can't
ever seem to finish one, the quality of writing has improved (or so say
I).
Banff and also with them upon my return to Toronto. I am presently working
for Spin Master Toys doing invoicing. They make air-powered planes and mini BMX bikes called Flick Trix. They are very flexible with my hours and I can work around any acting work I get.
I have never cherished the idea of starving for my art which may
have hurt my ability to get tons of work- but I enjoy certain comforts
that
starving artists do not. I believe you can have the cake and eat it too-
though it does make you a jack of all trades and possibly master of none,
it has served me well. I am currently in a position to produce my own
pieces and not worry about starving myself or claiming bankruptcy. Though
they are still small projects, they feature me as an actor in a favourable
light, and with a high degree of exposure.
Every year with SITR I thought it would be impossible to beat the quality of
the ensemble from the year before. The talent and personalities that the
company attracts is such a treat. It's amazing to think that you can find a
dozen performers that are so generous with themselves, and willing to live
the experience of a seven week run, in the out-of-doors, and who are so free
with their art. Every year has gotten better, and Titus was the best. It was
the first summer where I was truly sad when it ended. (And being with people for nine weeks is so often not such a treat).
School in Nepean. We met at York and spent ten years getting to know each
other. We married in 1999, at her parents' place in Bells Corners, on a
sweltering June day. My family thought it best that we all take a swim -
gladly Gayle did not get thrown in, and my suit was not wool. Ahh man- made fabrics!
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