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1. What was the FIRST play you ever saw?: Christmas pagaent.

2. What makes you LAUGH and CRY in a theater?: I sometimes laugh at stupid shit, but i don’t like that. I like when i laugh at something that only means something in the context of the peice, when something contained within one of the characters becomes funnny. I cry when characters are caught within situations that turn their attempts at ethical or even rational action into devastating unintended consequences and they become aware of it and don’t know what else they can do.

3. Who is your favorite THEATER ACTOR?: My favorite performance was a guy doing notes from underground by candlelight. I don’t know that guys name. Ice Volt also kicks ass.

4. Has theater ever CHANGED your perspective? Your life?: Changes my perspective often. Though, very little i’ve seen on stage in Milwaukee ever has. Every aspect of my life is currently shaped to best serve producing theatre.

What is your FAVORITE PLAY? Where did you see it? Why is it your favorite?: I can’t narrow down to one. Notes From Underground at the Brick in NYC, Conversation Storm at Darling Hall, 7 Jewish Children at Rooms in Chicago, Depth of a Moment and Deviants at MN Fringe are all up there.

6. Why THEATER?: The traditions and institutions of theatre are currently in crisis mode like no other medium, there’s tons of dead stuff that needs to be learned from and then shoved aside, as a result there is so much that can be done with theatre that’s barely been tried. It provides unique ephemeral experiences, while other mediums provide unique objects or mass producable simulations of experiences.

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