(I'm the cute one on the left) I have a younger sister, Jennifer.
(Picture coming soon)Just in case you'd like to know a bit more about me, other than my resume and other various entries on this site, here is a longer introduction.
I was born in Marietta, GA, on August 2, 1978. When I was six months old (or so, I really don't remember) we moved into a place in Lithonia, GA, and that is where I grew up, and live now.
This is me and my brother. (I'm the cute one on the left) I have a younger sister, Jennifer.
(Picture coming soon)
When I was in ninth grade, at Columbia High School Magnet for Math and Science (which I didn't turn out to be too good at) I stepped head first into my current career path. The summer after ninth grade, I had my first experience on stage, and since then it has been all I want to do. In the last ten years (God, has it been that long?), I have had no more than four months without being in a show, or two. And I love every stress-filled, time consuming minute of it!
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My first "real" play was, The Prince, the Wolf and the Firebird. (The whole cast of the Russian Folk tale, turned children's theatre piece. I'm the third from the right.) I was fifteen and had a blast. |
Some other show highlights from "the early years" were:
| The Dreamnibbler: (Me and Matt Nitche, playing princely brothers). |  |
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(The two of us again.) |
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(from left; Me, Matt, Michael Ogeltree and Talton Wingate, as the four "jazzy" frogs.) |
| The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: |  |
(the cast, having it out after a hard day, I'm the hangman.) |
| and The Magic Flute: (Me in my crazy costume.) |  |
The early plays were great
fun.
These plays were all done with the Alliance Theatre Acting Program (formerly Alliance Theatre School). Each was a children's theatre production. In all I did eight productions with the Youth Players, under the direction of Allison Biggers, Scott DePoy and Marian Bolton. I also went back in the summer of my first year in college to Assistant Direct The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I also made a guest appearance, and almost broke my nose.
More recently, I actually directed The Prince, the Wolf and the Firebird, in March of 2003, almost ten years after I was in my first play, which just happened to be the same play! |
During my senior year in high school, I started looking at college's. I decided on DePaul University in Chicago. Well, the plane took a detour and I landed in Newberry, SC. And, thankfully, that is where I stayed. The first show I was in there was Darkside (it is still, by far, my favorite).
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Darkside took place
during a fictitious Apollo 18 Mission. The play jumped from flashbacks
to present day scenes in which the audience found out the background of
the mission. Relationships were a large aspect of the play's conflict
and the action lead to a dramatic climax and turn of events.
(That's me as astronaut Bill Griffin, my first leading role.) |
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Through the action, the audience
finds out the Bill is having an affair with his best friend's wife.
(Me and my leading lady, Jessica Draeger, playing Gigi.) |
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| The three astronauts were Bill Griffin, Ed Stone and Gunner. Their mission was to land on the moon and continue the Apollo research. Unfortunately, things went drastically wrong and Ed and Gunner were unable to lift off from the moon's surface and reunite with Bill. While Ed and Gunner are on the surface, fixing the problem, Bill is floating in space having blackouts each time he loses contact with them as he goes around to the dark side of the moon.. |  |
Bill and his comrades, Ed Stone (Thomas McMillian) and Gunner (Richard Wright). |
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I was also in, The
Marriage of Bette and Boo, Christopher Durang's darkly comic look
at the life of a disturbed family. The play starts with a the marriage
of Bette and Boo and continues through the oddly humorous events of their
life together, with Matt, their son telling the story.
(Myself, as Boo and Jessica Draeger as Bette, getting counseling from Tony Terrana as Father Donnelly. The rest of the cast included Les Derrick as Matt (not pictured), and (top row, left to right )Chris Copeland as Paul, Shannan Koonce as Margaret, Kat Grant as the Doctor, Griffin Beckham as Karl, (bottom, left to right) Tiffany Swygert as Emily, Courtney Southard as (I forgot her character's name, it'll come to me) and Trisha McCullah as Soot. Photo courtesy of Rupert Gaddy) |
| Snoopy!!!
Yes, I'm Chuck! The show also starred (from back to front, left to right) Erica Clark as Snoopy, Kat Grant as Woodstock, Jessica Draeger as Sally, Miranda Laird as Peppermint Patty, Shannan Koonce as Lucy, Richard Wright as Linus, and Alison Travis as Marcie. |
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This sequel to You're
a Good Man, Charlie Brown! based on the characters by Charles Shultz,
was a series of scenes gives the audience a view of "The world According
To Snoopy."
(Me as Charlie Brown, lamenting the growing of my puppy.) |
I have been in many more shows since this page was last updated, including: my tour shows Rumpelstiltskin and Treasure Island, Rumors, The Water Engine, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Noises Off and Lend me a Tenor. I'll add more pictures when (if) I have time to scan them.