With a dash of panache…

Charming. It’s the perfect and only word to describe this musical. I had so much fun
acting the smarmy Kodaly, and I was able to work with the inimitable Jill Bennett,
whom I’ve played with on more than 10 occasions. I delighted in flying around the
stage, dancing the tango, and hurling insults at my fellow actors whenever the script
allowed. Charming, indeed.

Hell is other people.

This short film began as a challenge: Without leaving one room, could we tell the arc
of a relationship in one night? The joy of solving this dilemma found us navigating

not only the game of their relationship, but the layout of a confined space. Perhaps
an homage to Sartre, or maybe just some fun with the 5D. Also, Tristan James Butler
and Kristina Denton were inspired.

Worth every bruise…

When my friend Paul Teodo told me that Michael Altman was directing this
throwback to ON THE ROAD, with original music and a script from icon Danny Darst
I was certainly intrigued. When he told me I would be reading a snively weasel
named Wooten, well, that was that. Paul, as you can tell from his lats, had no trouble
assaulting me all over the stage. Damn fun times!

A page from the script…

GINA. You put $2,000 cash in your crotch?

VINCE. Of course. Where else could I trust this kind of money?

GINA. Get in the car, Vince.

VINCE. ..a little bit sticky…

GINA. Get. In. The car!

I loved directing this…

Illusion of the first time…

Brian Friel’s beautiful and lyric tale of his family’s downfall is reminiscent of an Irish
Glass Menagerie. As the narrator Michael, it was very satisfying to live through much
of the play as an observer, traveling from an old man to a boy.

(A trick, incidentally, that I’ve tried unsuccessfully many times since. I guess the first
time was an illusion, after all.)