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Thirty Years in NYC

Thirty years ago, this very hour, I pulled into New York City for the first time, and I've lived here ever since! 


I had a vague recollection that today was the day, so when I woke at 3:00 a.m. (a significant hour for me), I got up to search for the journal I kept during those early days in the ...

12.18.23 12:16 PM - Comment(s)
Praying over the Hudson Theatre and announcing the 20th Anniversary performance of my play Five Bells for 9/11...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/KALsyBRZqIY

A new close to Five Bells for 9/11

 
In my 20th anniversary performance, I told how the cast and crew of  What's a Girl to Do? appeal...
09.15.21 07:46 PM - Comment(s)
My first boss in New York City, Gerri Castle, went to be with the Lord on March 11. On the 7th she was injured during a home invasion.

Several of us who knew Gerri from her time at The Lamb's Church of the Nazarene began praying for her, and it was truly miraculous that she was able to stay alive...
04.05.19 06:28 PM - Comment(s)
Joyce and I with Cindy on a recent
visit she took to NYC.
Since about 1994 I've been performing in public schools through the invitation of Cindy Sebring.

That year I drove (back when I tried to keep a car in NYC) down to the DC area for a Christians in Theatre Arts conference. I remember the rain...
04.24.17 04:41 PM - Comment(s)
We saw a fantastic production of Pilgrim's Progress last week put on by The Glory Shop. I was proud of Alexis Duperree and Nealson Munn, who were my students at the Salvation Army Conservatory where I teach and direct most summers. Of course Nealson was playing guitar, so I had nothing to do with ...
03.28.17 04:43 PM - Comment(s)
The Lamb's Church/Theatre/Center for the Homeless is where I lived the first four years that I was in New York, and I performed there for the church, theatre patrons, and the homeless, whom I served meals at least once a week. 

One of my favorite performances was when I put on A Clear Lea...
11.26.09 03:38 PM - Comment(s)
Off West Broadway Theatre Company was instrumental in me getting started as an actor. While I was living at The Lamb's Church they began to produce plays in the smaller of their two Off-Broadway theatres. I showed up to help with construction and painting and anything that needed to be done. Before...
12.29.96 01:12 AM - Comment(s)
I put together tours across America the summers of 1994 and 1995, so I'm pretty sure I got the date right on this. We're in Bryant Park, Midtown Manhattan for Mac Nelson's birthday party. He was best man at our wedding. 

I've always been known for my appetite. I believe this shot is from t...
07.19.96 08:17 PM - Comment(s)
While I was an intern at The Lamb's Church of the Nazarene on Times Square from 1993 to 1998 I performed in a number of productions in both the main Off-Broadway stage and the smaller black box theatre. That space went back and forth between Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway status by adding or rem...
09.30.95 02:14 PM - Comment(s)
I arrived in NYC in 1993, and my friend, Dorothy G. Ubben, is posting some great photos from the four years I lived at The Lamb's Church when it was on Times Square in a building designed by Stanford White (known for his iconic structures throughout the Eastern Seaboard). I lived on the sixth floor...
02.14.95 05:35 PM - Comment(s)

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