The Wearing Of Many Hats

From the desk of Marc Adam Smith

With this current production of Five Years Later going up in the coming month, I find myself once again having many tasks as a member of POY. Not only am I the Co-Writer of the piece, I am acting in it (on stage for almost the whole show), Assistant Director and Sound Designer as well. As a group, we all do many things for all of our productions, but this time I am in the unique position of having the lines I’ve written said by other people – often they are said to me (my character). Very strange… at times I want to give the a line reading, but one cannot do that nor give notes when one is not the Director, so it has been an adjustment. It has taken me long time to find this character and who he is, but in the past week it all came together for me, so I am chomping at the bit to get it going.

Jeff Love has been great to work with on this and having not collaborated with anyone in the past (some say Marc does not play well with others), this experience has been great and we may do some more writing together in the future. The cast, well, they are amazing. Getting to work with G again is always a learning experience and makes me a better actor. And after all the years we have been friends and in the company together, to finally have scene work with Melanie is a true joy. Johnny, Paul, Alyssa, Tina, Felicia, Brandon, Ian, Meghan and Karron have been awesome and Leslie is a great stage manager. With Sean as House Manager for the run, I am super confident that this will be our biggest and best show yet....