I, Homunculus

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The Absurd Hero

Whenever I think about my choice to be an actor, I think about Camus. I’ve mentioned Frenchy McFrencherton before in this context, and you can blame my Freshman year reading list for that. But mere hours before The Man Who Was Thursday explodes into the world, I’m finding my Froggy friend has a special resonance. [...]

Approaching Anarchy

We are a scant 13 days from opening The Man Who Was Thursday, and I cannot tell you how excited I am to be a part of this production. Equal parts post-Victorian thriller and outright farce, I get to play both sides of my deepest wishes: I get to be a Bondesque hero with all [...]

Talk To Me Now

This time two years ago, I recall with some surprise, I had never been called upon – except for a three-night run as Horace Vandergelder in Hello, Dolly back in high school – to talk directly to an audience on stage in close to 20 years of doing theatre. This is surprising because, save for [...]