Oscar Manheim – My first ‘real’ film character
Early last year I mentioned a role – almost ‘in passing’ – that I had filmed in early 2016. Last week was the Movie’s Vancouver Premiere,...
A Professional Actor ?
Considering my actual paid work opportunities have shrunk to nothing in 2017, I now have time to devote to our Union, and spend some time...
An Anniversary
The month of May is a celebration for me. Five years ago this month, I left what turned out to be my last long-term, professional...
Malvolio Memories
Well, another example of ‘The best laid plans going awa'.’ Perhaps the most valuable lesson I learned during ‘Twelfth Night’ was that the...
“Malvolio is a Peg-A-Ramsey.”
Rehearsals start next week for a staged reading of Twelfth Night for Western Gold Theatre, and I’ve been performing some research tasks...
Sir Oliver Surface - Two weeks out
What Fun! The School for Scandal has been around for almost 250 years, and never gets worse with age. The parallels with today’s society...
No Work January
Part of me has been expecting a time like this for a while now – a time when there would be nothing but failure. Having it arrive,...
