In Memory Of
Posted By Kathleen David on June 5, 2004
I started my theater career because I broke up with my boyfriend at the time. A good friend of mine got tired of me moping around and encouraged (threatened) me to go to a meeting of the theater department which had just formed. My first job in theater was running a portable light board (I use the term light board loosely. It was a bunch of rheostats lined up in a wooden box with a fan to keep it from over heating) for a very ambitious version of Everyman. The audience went from place to place to see the next part of the action. It started in the chapel and ending at the theater with stops at the business school, the nursing school, the school of theology, the library and the main classroom building. There I met Gregg Wallace who became a great friend and encouraged me to continue working at the theater. The second show I work on I was the assistant stage manager then on the third show I became the stage manager for
i think its great kathleen that john is still major part of his life
i was in LA for 19 months trying to make it as an actor though i dont live there now my acting coach who i met there has had a profound influence on me
because of her i know i will return to LA
one day
she changed my life forever
so i really know where you are coming from
always keep john in your heart
thats where he belongs
I got involved in high school level theater after a track injury. It was one of the best things that ever happened to me. Also, I appeared in a student project of “Everyone” by Fredrick Franck just after graduation. Which Everyman did you do?
oops sorrya bout that kathleen i meant to say its a great thing john is still a major part of your life
Kathleen, I knew John Purcell also. Like you, I was an SM working in metro Atlanta GA. I SM’d John is several plays…Lend Me A Tenor, and The Night Hank Williams Died. I was a tremendous fan of his talent and his professionalism. I went thru a rough personal time during “Hank” and he gave me a level-headed talking to. I needed that. I left theater in 1996, and only heard about his death several years later. I was so heartbroken. What a loss to the community and to the world. He was an awesome gentleman and I will always remember him very fondly.