Meet the Cast of Twentieth Century - Michael Gerwin
What
is appealing about playing your character?
My wife
says I do nervous befuddlement very well. That’s comfortable for me.
What
do you find appealing about this show?
Working with this talented cast and crew is enjoyable!!! It is fun to do comedies involving
stereotypical theater people!!! In those
roles, it is very difficult to go “over the top” or take
yourself too seriously. My character is a
theater wanna-be but the motivations are the same.
How did you get involved with LTA?
One day in 2002 I told my friend
John Kirby I was auditioning for Arsenic
and Old Lace at LTA. John was a not only a co-worker and but he and I had
acted together in To Kill A Mockingbird at
Tapestry Theater. John asked if he could
join me for the audition. I was
interested in the part of Teddy Brewster, a man who lives under the illusion
that he was Teddy Roosevelt. (I have
always been fascinated by Roosevelt.) That evening at auditions, John met a
lovely and talented actress named Kristen Page.
A day or two later we were pleased to learn that I was cast as Teddy,
John was cast as my brother Jonathan Brewster (the Boris Karloff looking
villain) and Kristen was cast as Elaine, Mortimer Brewster’s girlfriend. I immensely enjoyed playing a slightly
demented caricature of our 26th President (which included my
consulting with a stuffed teddy bear). As
it happens, John and Kristen fell in love and are now married with a beautiful
son, Jack. Residents of Eastern
Maryland, the Kirbys are actively involved in Port Tobacco Theater in LaPlata,
where they have acted in and directed several marvelous plays. John directed and Kristen produced Port
Tobacco’s 2010 rendition of Arsenic and
Old Lace. This is my second LTA show under
the direction of Roland Gomez. The first was Heaven Can Wait where I played a hardboiled 1930s police detective. Roland definitely tries to direct each
comedy so you get the maximum laughter for your buck!
Other thoughts?
I’d like to thank my beautiful wife for
encouraging me in this crazy hobby.
Sarah, I love you very much.
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| Michael Gerwin is playing Dr. Grover Lockwood in Twentieth Century. |
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