I got the acting bug a couple of years ago when someone asked me to be an extra in an independent movie. A few months later I enrolled in an acting course at my local Community College. When I finished that I was all set to find my star in Hollywood when I started to watch an HBO series called "Slings & Arrows" which showed life behind the scenes of Stage Theatre. I was hooked and soon found myself acting in my first play: Terry Pratchett's MORT.

Soon after I became the Artistic Director of KW Little Theatre, which is a small community theatre here in town.

When I performed in MORT, I was part of 'the group of seven' in which there were seven actors playing multiple parts each. These were all minor rolls that mostly were in a single scene, which made it fun to change up characters and costumes.. I got to play a Wealthy Land Owner, an Assassinated King, a Tavern Owner (who tosses Death out the door), an Eastern Guard, Thug and Nobleman.

My next production was an outdoor festival called "Robin in the Hood" which as you can probably guess dealt with Robin Hood. In this I was given a small role as part of the Mud Clan, who were a bunch of insanely stupid barbarians who worshiped Mud. I played the 'dumb' one and my fellow clan members and I must have done a great job of it because we stole the show. We even became more popular than Robin Hood and his Merry Men. We would 'annoint' people with mud on their foreheads to become part of our clan. Gangs of children would chant MUD! MUD! MUD! wherever they walked and they would cheer us when we fought the 'good guys'. It's definitely true when they say "There are no small parts, just small actors." as this show proved that to me.

Right after Robin in the Hood is when I became the Artistic Director for KW Little Theatre. This is a volunteer job that proved a nice challenge and showed me a lot about the theatre very quickly. (I'm not sure if that's good or bad just yet). My main duties are creating the posters and programs for each production, as well as choosing which plays will be put on during the One Act Weekends and the next year's season.

My latest play that I acted in was a One Act called "Rapunzel Uncut" in which I played a narrator telling the tale of Rapunzel when another 'narrator' comes out from the audience to tell me I'm telling it wrong. While we dual it out verbally, the actors are performing behind us. In the end I get so frustrated that I 'punch out the other narrator'... I tell you, nothing says 'macho' like a 260 lbs man punching out a little 17 year old girl. (even if it was fake) :)

I'm not sure what the future holds for my acting career. Right now I'm just doing amateur theatre and it's fun. With all my other interests and hobbies I'm not sure that I want to pursue it full time, but you never know.