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Port Townsend, Washington, United States
@ES3
Member since 2008
CURRENT MISSION To forge feeling into form, with words, words, words. ABOUT ME After a career as actor / producer / playwright, touring with my small company, teaching drama in a private school, raising children, I'm free! I've already checked one dream trip off the list, van-camping through Central America, but the list is long and continually revised. The writing projects I'm working with are adventures too. PHILOSOPHY Lighten up! I believe we can always help each other recover from a very fearful culture.
Interested in Books & Literature
Fluent in English
Learning Spanish
Pioneer Badge
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE As a touring performer I've met neat people who have offered couches in Alaska, British Columbia, and throughout the U.S. I've also enjoyed the company of travelers and gracious hosts in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. You never know if you'll end up helping with a wedding, shoveling snow off a roof, or sleeping in a macadamia orchard, or...
Music, Movies, and Books
"Amelie", or the hard-to-watch films of Herzog and Haneke. Nabokov, Shakespeare, Anne Sexton, William Blake, Nietzsche. Jim Harrison.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Standing for four hours in the back of the National Theatre in London watching Olivier in Long Day's Journey. Chartres Cathedral. The Canadian Rockies. The high country of Guatemala.
Teach, Learn, Share
As a lifelong teacher, I can always run little workshops on Improvisation, Aikido, Public Speaking, how to face 'audiences' of any kind, with poetry, toasts, rants, or...?
My Interests
Theater, Books, Film, Poetry, Salsa, Swing, Tango, Aikido, Running, Biking, Hiking, Skiing.