Ken Cheeseman & Paula Langton in "Bakersfield Mist"
My New Repertory Theatre production of Bakersfield Mist by Stephen Sachs (a remount/transfer of the co-production we did last August at WHAT) has now closed. Apparently it was a big hit, selling out most shows and extending for a week.
A new endeavor for me is audiobook production/narration. My first experience with this was recording my dad’s book, A People’s History of the United States (finalist for the 2011 “Audie Awards.”) This is the unabridged version – 32 hours. (The abridged version was recorded by some guy named Matt Damon.) I recently completed recording Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader In Vietnam by Nathaniel Tripp. Both are available at audible.com. My next project will be David Rabe’s amazing, Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam [now complete - coming soon to audible.com.]
I am also writing a book on acting and an approach to character creation (inspired by the work of cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker) called The Existential Actor: Life and death, onstage and off. It is very much a work-in-progress but I have posted most of it on this website. Please feel free to comment, or send me an e-mail if you would like to do so privately. The introduction starts here.