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So yesterday as I was working on things for my one-man show I heard via Facebook and email (mostly Facebook) that a number of other people I know have been cast in Lakeshore's 10-Minute Play Festival. From the Greens, my Greenie son Andrew has been cast with me in This Town Ain't Big Enough..., plus Candy Striped. His real-life father Syd (our beloved Wind Spirit) has been cast as his father in Candy Striped, and Sylena, one of my Greenie twins, is also in that same play. Jenna and Justin, siblings in real life, will play siblings in another play, and Jessica (my wife in Greens) is acting in the play Claudia will be directing. I've also heard the rumor that Ali (yet another of my Greenie daughters) is in one of the plays, but I haven't heard which one. Lastly, Jan (who played Pinella the witch) is directing one of the plays. On the non-Greenie front, Jim Wescott (who was in a couple of the 10-minute plays last year, and his daughter Anne and I co-starred in Table 11) will be in a play called Double Dribble. And, who knows, there may yet be other old friends in one play or another.


I cannot express how excited I am to have so many of our Greenie family in the festival! We will all, I'm certain, have a fantastic time with our cast mates and directors for each of our particular shows, but it will be great fun being together backstage for each of the performances. (By my count at least half of the plays can boast at least one Greenie.) It was wonderful on Saturday seeing the troupe of Greenie kids come into the theater, and I'm glad we all continue to run into each other and find our way into shows together.