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Tiny Planet, 360 photo, at work in the grad lab, University of Montana.
Working on sound cues for Assassins, University of Montana, 2019.
On set with horse, shooting a short with For a Cause Productions as part of the Shoot Montana Campaign, 2020..
Just off set in the Fort Owen Inn, shooting with For a Cause Productions. 2020.
Checking cues, Kurtis Hassinger's senior thesis. 2019. A studio performance of Samuel Beckett's radio play Cascando as a multi-media, interactive performance.
Where my bees hang out.
Just wrapped reading a radio play for Jay Kettering with Rosie Ayers and Robin Rose. 2019.
My son Francis with guinea pigs George and Phillip and hedgehog Elliot (RIP).
Digging through crates with my boys Francis and Harrison.
Honey and bees wax. Yum.
Brochure I created for my installation The Insta-Home Entertainment System, a piece I created using Isadora. Spring 2019.
The user interface for the Insta-Home Entertainment System. Users accessed the media on an iphone using TouchOSC.
In the booth, running the video I co-designed with Professor Michael Murphy. Assassins, University of Montana, 2019.
Behind the projection wall for Assassins. UM, 2019.
Teching Assassins. University of Montana. Spring 2019.
Hanging projectors for Assassins. University of Montana, 2019.
Editing 360 narrative short The Camera, an in progress piece.
As Dr. Buchannan in Tennessee William's Summer and Smoke. University of Montana, Fall 2018.
The two John's, Summer and Smoke, University of Montana Fall 2018.
Just wrapped recording a series of radio spots for Bell Tobacco in Missoula. Spots by Jay Kettering.
Taking a swing at Gonzales in Summer and Smoke. University of Montana, Fall 2018.
Building sound cues for Morgan and Merlin. Montana Rep Education outreach show. By Laramie Dean. Summer/Fall 2018.
As Selsdon in Noises Off. University of Montana, Spring 2017.
Ants gather on a fence during the flood of 2017.
Promo photo for Neon Dream by Greg Owens and Greg Keilor. Vigilante Theatre Company. 2004/2005.
Presenting a short talk about 360 video, Gradcon, University of Montana, 2018.
Stereoscopic image taken from 360 experimental film Spring Breakage. 2018.
On set with Megan Folsom in John Paul DeRoulhac's short film, Dissolution. 2019.
With the family at the Seattle Zoo, taking a selfie with the flamingos for Grandma Jean.
Snapping a candid shot of Rebecca, Lizzie, and Lucia in Portland, Or.
Playing with filters in Mother Ginger makeup. The Nutcracker, Garden City Ballet. 2011-2017.
The crew and I wait for our closeup while shooting Michael Murphy's What is Done, with Kate Scott and Mark Metcalf.
Again with the umbrella... :)
Director Michael Murphy giving me some thoughts between takes, What is Done. 2018.
With Justin Fatz in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys at MCT, 2010.
Just put on my Selsdon gear, and ready for Noises Off at the University of Montana, 2017.
And now as an old man, Elmer Barnes in my play Security Breaches, written for the 2011 summer season at the Opera House in Philipsburg.
Gearing up for my monster transformation in Dani Parker's 2017 film Safe Word.
The monster's head laying in the corner. Safe Word. Dani Parker, Director. 2017.
It's not really Christmas without some scary Mother Ginger eyes in the Nutcracker, Garden City Ballet, 2011-2017.
We garden and can and forage. :)
Promo photo for The Opera House in Philipsburg, my second summer of ten. 2007
Behind the scenes self-portrait, in rehearsals on The Ever-Intrepid, Traveling, Clark and Lewis Show: An epic extravaganza on a less than lavish scale. This was around 2002, when we were rehearsing a new actress into the repertoire.
Rehearsing the curtain call for SLUT by Katie Cappiello. This play was done with the Women's and Gender Studies program at the University of Montana and the CDC. Directed by Hillary Bard. I did sound and projection design as well as helping make things run like they should. :) 2015
My mom snapped an obviously posed photo of us crossing a river in Glacier National Park circa 2015.
Playing with variable focal length, long exposure, and flash down in the Lewis and Clark Caverns with Harry, Lucy, and Lizzie.
A snap of the family passing out programs at Luna Fest, a fundraiser for the YWCA in Missoula.
One of the Nutcrackers. 2013?
Promo photo of my cast for the Zoola Playwrights Fall Festival of shorts. 2015? I directed all 7 shorts, did the sound design and projections for the show and wrote one of the pieces.
The Zoola Playwrights captured by Jonathan Qualben.
I live in Missoula. Sometimes it's autumn and people hang spoons in trees and then I take pictures of the result.
From the top of the Ferris Wheel at the Western Montana Fair. 2014.
My daughter Elizabeth. Back when the world was black and white.
Promo still from our 2013 Vaudeville show at the Opera House in Philipburg. A moment of culture for the people.
Checking to see how the shots came out...
Being all director-ee with the stage manager. OHTC 2013.
Channeling my early 90's grunge roots.
Selling tickets to my mom and my high school mentor, John Roberts. OHTC. 2014ish.
The darker side of the Nutcracker, in my other role as Clara's Father. Garden City Ballet, 2011-2017.
A picture of the waves of paper in a pile of scripts. Just meditate on it for a second. You deserve it.
I don't know what kind of bug this is but it looked fantastic on the decorative grass outside my house.
Self-portrait. 2013.
Child sliding through tunnel.
Snapping backstage shots of some of the cast of Wonder of the World by David Lindsey-Abaire. Acted and did the sound design for this one. 2012.
The Yoyo at dusk. Western Montana Fair. 2014.
The textures of weathered bone.
Skull seams on an ancient deer skull.
With Rebecca Schaeffer, a promo for the 2012 OHTC Vaudeville show.
The dirty Julie Andrews Song Book. OHTC Vaudeville. 2013
With Nathan Atkins, Vaudeville Promo OHTC 2013.
Alan Aykborn's How the Other Half Loves, with David Simmons and Marilyn Rice. Philipsburg 2013.
Selfie as Lucas the evil priest in Subteranea. 2015.
The Dirty Old Lady Show by Cathy Capps. Set being assembled. I directed. Twas a hoot. 2012.
The cast of The Dirty Old Lady Show looking like a band.
As Mother Ginger. Photo from the Missoulian.
That summer I played Edith Bunker in a spoof of All in the Family. OHTC Vaudeville, 2012.
The Maxville Chickens. OHTC Vaudeville promo, 2012.
Your Flake or Mine by Jack Sharkey. OHTC 2012.
Leaving Iowa by Spike Manton and Tim Clue. OHTC 2011.
Leaving Iowa by Spike Manton and Tim Clue. OHTC 2011.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. MCT 2011. I directed.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. MCT 2011. I directed.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. MCT 2011. I directed.
At Montana Public Radio recording Jay Kettering's Radio play How I Learned to Tell Time. 2008
Promo from my play Is it Hot? Played the summer of 2010. A 1950's menopause comedy. Story by Claudette Dringle.
Is it Hot? Promo.
Damon Abdullah and Colleen Watson in Is it Hot?, OHTC 2010. I wrote, directed, and sound designed this one. Sometimes too many hats. :)
Life X3 by Yasmina Reza with Montana Actor's Theatre Missoula, 2007.
The lurking director in action.
As Samson Smithson during a recording of my podcast Waiting for a Train, 2009.
The manager and the lighting/sound designer chilling. OHTC 2009.
The Goat or Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee. A Red Headed Angel Production. Co-director, sound designer, promo photographer, and I helped to build the furniture and set. 2009.
Another promo photo for The Goat.
As Author in Bang the Drum Slowly. MCT 2008.
The two playwrights, Jonn Jorgenson and I. His show was The Sweeter the Rose, the Sharper the Thorn. Mine was The King of the Coyotes, a gothic, western comedy. OHTC 2008.
Ray Cooney's Run for Your Wife. OHTC 2008.
Another shot of Jonn and I, this time performing in Run for Your Wife. OHTC 2008.
With Coleen Watson in King of the Coyotes. OHTC 2008.
The Sweeter the Rose, the Sharper the Thorn by Jonn Jorgenson. OHTC 2008.
Neon Dream press. Vigilante Theatre Company. 2004. Bozeman Chronicle.
Post recording at Montana Public radio. This time Jay Kettering's Church of Pancakes.
In the studio, ready to lay down some tape. Only it's not tape anymore.