Theatre:

With the West Orange theatre group Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS), I've played Egeus (Hermia's father) in Midsummer Night's Dream, which ran through July 25-27 and August 1 and 2 (1997).

I've been doing tech work (lights/sound) at the Producer's Clubshowcase theatre on West 44th in New York city with technical director Beau Decker. Recently for/with Four On One, I was assistant stage manager for the one-act plays Graceland, Sticks and Stones, The Man Who Couldn't Dance and Ludlow Fair.

Prior to that I did lights and sound for Blak 'N' Blu Productions, running lights and sound for their eight night run of An Evening of Three One Act Plays, which included Leroi Jones' powerful Dutchman, Terrance McNalley's creepy Sweet Eros, and David Mamet's utterly baffling All Men Are Whores: An Inquiry. At the Producer's Club I also ran lights and sound for Augie's Ring. Beau has moved on but I will still be working with him, as well as a few gigs still left over at the Producer's Club. Next was a project for Alan Gordon done June 2-4.

With the Magic Trunk Players of the Studio Playhouse in Upper Montclair, New Jersey, I just concluded a run for their show for children: Kaleidescope, in which I played (slightly bumbling) Prime Minister Albert. The ten performance show ran March 1, 2, 8 and 9, 1997.

December 1996 I completed Santa Claus Calling the North Pole, and again played Noel the Reindeer handler, a character I've played numerous times in this series of Pat Cone written "Christmas" plays. The run went over well and the cast worked well together. My good friend Terry Holusha was cast as Candy (guess what his character does at the North Pole…?); the summer (August) of 1996, Terry played Verges to my Dogberry for Much Ado About Nothing for the Glen Ridge community theatre group that annually does outdoor Shakespeare plays at Freeman Gardens. I got a call from the group's director of Romeo and Juliet (in which I played both Friar John and the Chief Watch with them the summer of 1995), indicating in early July they are casting for The Tempest for a late August weekend run, and requesting I come out for it.

I have been a stage actor since the age of eight, where I played the brother Sid in Tom Sawyer at a children's summer theatre workshop at William Paterson College. I've worked on stage as well as up on the technical bridge. My theatrical 8x10(s) show me both clean shaven (for those "nice guy" roles) and the other is bearded (for my favourite roles: villains)…!

Apart from adult theatre, I enjoy doing a lot of children theatre, mostly for the aforementioned Studio Players (click here for their current season). I've also done shows for LCP: the Livingston Community Players. My favourite villain roles have been that of the acid wielding sociopath Peter in Murder In Mind, done at the Seton Hall University Theatre In The Round, and Barnaby in the LCP production of Babes In Toyland. I did a few shows at my alma mater, Ramapo State College. Videos of a few of the productions in which I have been are available through my brother's company AMS Video, by the way: Larry Brady's wacky Peter & the Pirates (1995) in which I play Captain Blackhead and The Magic Bottle (1990) in which I play the Genii, LCP's production of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians in which I played the Judge, the Studio Playhouse's Sherlock Saves Santa's Sign, in which I play the fast talking Foosh are preserved on video tape (both Ten Little Indians and Sherlock Saves Santa's Signeven have humourous homaged MST3K type credit tag clips).

March 1995 I played the King in a production of The Remarkable Puss In Boots at the Playhouse, adapted by Playhouse member Patricia Clapp (Cone), the same author of the series of North Pole children's plays concerning Santa Claus and his household. The Magic Trunk series of plays for children at the Studio Playhouse have quite a loyal following. I am a Life Member, having joined in November 1973; some of the parents bringing their children saw me in shows when they were still kids and teenagers! D'oh!

My friend Shirls (seen here) broke the CyberBarrier and saw me in the The Remarkable Puss In Boots at the Playhouse, with her husband Jim and their lovely daughter Eleanor (if legible in this scanned photo, note the AMS Video shirt).

Unfortunately, they had to miss my Dogberry for Much Ado About Nothing. The performance that was video taped (AMS, of course, and the one Shirls would have seen) was the closing performance in which I severely sprained my ankle just before going on for my first scene. I managed to do my scenes without too much limping.

Thanks to my fast growing beard, when done up as a goatée, I look remarkably like the late British actor Roger Delgado, who originated the role of The Master on the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who; the longest running science fiction series on TV. Doctor Who first aired Saturday evening November 23, 1963 (the day after Kennedy was shot; news coverage for which even delayed the first episode of the first four parter for nearly a half hour), until the BBC deliberately sabotaged the series in the late 1980s. Now all that are made are the occasional lamely scripted reunion shows.
I have an outfit done up perfectly as his Master outfit and used to frequent Doctor Who conventions. When I first met actors such as Jon Pertwee or the yummy Katy Manning, both of whom worked with Delgado before his premature death (a 1973 car crash in Turkey being driven to a movie location), they instinctively shuddered suddenly with startled recognition.