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Below is additional information about things you will find on my resume
and some asides along the way.
As I mentioned on the front page, I have been terribly bad about keeping
up this page, and I have no idea if I will get any better.
I was very saddened to see that Sydney Pollack died. In addition
to the theatre and indie stuff I have done, I also occasionally do some background on bigger films. Part of the treat
of working on them is the locations. For The Interpreter, Pollack's last major
film as a director, I was portraying a consular official in a meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations. I
had never visited there and it was a thrill to sit in that most impressive chamber. As good or better was watching Sydney
Pollack work. He was always relaxed and available and yet ran a remarkably efficient set getting multiple takes on about
six different scenes including dozens to hundreds of extras, all in a single day. It was also clear that he trusted
his actors, giving direction in one or two sentences. The best really do make it look easy and I am sorry we have lost
one of them.
As mentioned, I will be going back to New England for the NESF production
of Much Adoe. I will not be with the full tour, I cannot schedule that, but rather doing some dates that fall
after the full tour. The hope of those of us involved is that we can develop a group of shows and people that could
put on a production on short notice. The style in which we do NESF shows, first folio unrehearsed, certainly lends itself
to this and it would enable us to do work we love outside the confines of NESF's summer touring schedule. As we saw
in the show in Sullivan County this spring, when you have a cast of really good actors that are familiar and comfortable with
the style of performing, you can have a very successful show with minimal lead time.
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