Theater Folks? (1 Viewer)

[Joe Bryant]

Proud of my brother in law, Conner.

He is a theater guy.

I remember when he was going to school and said he was a theater major. I remember thinking to myself, "Great. Good luck with that."

Well, he showed us. He's worked super hard over the last fifteen years or so and has a really nice resume of work, including eight years as the Associate Director for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. He started in San Francisco, and then opened the show in Tokyo and i think Buenos Aires, and then the last several years on Broadway.

He left Harry Potter a few months ago and is currently the associate director for "Waiting for Godot." This is him with the baseball cap interviewing Keanu Reeves and the cast.

Broadway.com on Instagram: "In partnership with the NYC Department of Education, Jamie Lloyd’s WAITING FOR GODOT starring Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter welcomed more than 500 NYC public school students and educators across two special matinee performanc

Watch Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter talk about their experience working on Jamie Lloyd's WAITING FOR GODOT and the importance of theatre in bringing people together. Learn how they approach Beckett's classic play and the value of having no expectations. Discover the power of theatre in creating a...

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[Joe Bryant]

And you probably know, but Alex Winter was Reeves co-star in "Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure."

 

[Joe Bryant]

Conner is a fantastic guy. So good to see good things happening for him.

He got us director seats to see the play a couple of weeks ago. Really great.

 

[BLOCKED_PUNT]

good job Conner

 

[Galileo]

That's great and all, but how is his fantasy football team doing?

Congrats to Conner!

 

[El Floppo]

Such a difficult business to make a go of things, let alone succeed the way Connors done- congrats to him!

My brother and his wife are both theater people too...started as actors (met at his MFA program) and lifestyled it into continued acting and related work to pay the bills and raise their two girls. Shes run the theater dept at a great private high school in their county for almost 30 years, retiring at the end of this year. Hes done a bit of everything, but segued voice-over work for the Joseph Campbell foundation into copy writing and editing into full on editing/publishing "new" Campbell books.

My kids are both performance junkies...so it'll be interesting to see where they go in their lives with that side of things.

Why i love hearing success stories like Connors!

 

[Senor Schmutzig]

My sister got her Master's in Theater from NYU/Tisch back in the mid-90's and has been working in Theater ever since. The majority of her work has been as a director on off-Broadway productions or a visiting director at some of the top local and regional theater companies around the world. She only recently took a "corporate" gig, in the theater department at one of the New York State Universities. That gives her the first opportunity for a stable income, benefits, potential pension, etc. After 30+ years of gig work in the arts, she may be ready to settle down and slow down a bit.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

My oldest boy (jr in high school) is planning to major in theater
Keep telling him to have a backup plan but we are being supportive. He enjoys it so why not try to make a career out of it

 

[Senor Schmutzig]

My sister got her Master's in Theater from NYU/Tisch back in the mid-90's and has been working in Theater ever since. The majority of her work has been as a director on off-Broadway productions or a visiting director at some of the top local and regional theater companies around the world. She only recently took a "corporate" gig, in the theater department at one of the New York State Universities. That gives her the first opportunity for a stable income, benefits, potential pension, etc. After 30+ years of gig work in the arts, she may be ready to settle down and slow down a bit.

My potential theater career was derailed early on. When I was 4 or 5, our local community center had a children's production that revolved around a circus or Big Top theme. My sister played the role of ringmaster (shocking! considering her eventual career arc) and I was cast as the "fat man". I remember stuffing my shirt and pants with pillows for my costume. The minute I walked out on stage and everyone started laughing at me was the start of my childhood trauma about pursuing any sort of acting career! LOL.

Granted, since then I have presented on stage in front of thousands of people without any issues but damn, that early experience really rattled me! My sister and I went to the same university, University of Evansville, for undergrad. I took a route through the business school and she got her BA in Theatre. I actually took one theater course while I was there but got an F in it because I never completed my final exam, which was a monologue.

UE is a pretty small school in the Midwest, but have an excellent Theater program (@Dan Lambskin) with quite a few well-know and established actors as graduates, including Rami Malek (Freddie Mercury/Queen movie), Carrie Preston (True Blood & Elsbeth), Kelli Giddish (Law & Order SVU), Jack McBrayer (the page on 30Rock), Matt Williams (Created Roseanne, in fact the original Roseanne house is in Evansville Indiana) and quite a few others in all related areas of theater and the arts.