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If you're looking for a formal business resume, please take this one.
Otherwise ...
I was born in 1960 in Carmel, California, the only child of a Southern Baptist piano teacher and an Irish Catholic airman from California. By most accounts, he was charming and she was bright. The letters they wrote to each other while he finished his four-year tour of duty overseas are glimpses of people I never knew, as is the video link below ... the only footage ever shot of them ... their wedding reception ... 1958 ... no sound.
During my formative years, I did the Boy Scout thing, the alter boy thing, the student council thing and the YMCA basketball thing and thought I was destined to do the lawyer thing when I was making half-hearted plans for college. But my favorite thing, the thing I did best, was theater.
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Three years out of college, I renounced practicality and auditioned for Chopstick Theater, a small touring company based in Charleston, SC. That was 1985 and I've made my living in theater, on and off, full-time and part-time ever since. Along the way,
I've also worked as a feature writer, photographer, illustrator and print designer.
Depending on how you interpret them, I've broken most, if not all, of the ten directives, as penance for which I've written a dozen plays for young audiences, some with music (see audio). These plays have been performed for many thousands of schoolchildren around the Southeast. I like to cook, though my chefly repertoire is rather limited, and I know a few guitar chords. I prefer to walk, if at all possible. When I lived in Columbia, I gardened quite a bit and had a small shop where I sometimes made things out of wood. At right is a bedside shelf and lamp that I made several years ago.
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