I have been an actor, director and writer in the Wichita area for some three decades. I’ve worked extensively with Center Theatre at the Wichita Center for the Arts, Mosely Street Melodrama, The Empire House and The Crown Uptown Theatre.
My first professional job was as a DJ at radio station KIND in Independence, Kansas. For two years I did an afternoon music show, read the afternoon and sometimes evening news and ran the board for Royals baseball broadcasts.
In the ‘80s I did quite a bit of local radio and TV commercial work, consisting of everything from straight voiceover, character and dialect voices and celebrity impressions. I did a variety of celebrity voices including Presidents Nixon, Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Abbot and Costello, Cary Grant, Jack Nicolson and even Carol Channing. I have played cowboys, kings, gangsters, wacky neighbors and tragic heroes.
During the ‘90s I did a number of industrial films for NCR working with Alan Snyder at that company. During the later incarnations of that company, (now LSI Logic) I did a number of live industrial shows appearing as a mad scientist or “wacky” engineer to promote/explain that year’s feature product.
I have a number of dialects in my repertoire including Mid-Atlantic, Upper New England, New York, Deep South, Standard British, Brit Country Gentleman, Irish, Welsh, Scots, Yorkshire and “Shakespearean.” I also am good with various European dialects such as Italian, German, Yiddish, Russian, etc. I am a quick study at picking up dialects of all types.
As a writer I have done numerous melodramas for both The Empire House and Mosley Street Melodrama. I have written dramatic pieces for Kansas Health Ethics and Breakthrough Wichita. I also created a series of “Collapsible Classics”; plays by Shakespeare and Moliere edited down to fit a standard classroom period and performed by four actors.
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