About the Author:
While Fisher Stevens began his career on the stage in Broadway shows such as Torch Song Trilogy and Brighton Beach Memoirs, his career is now now equally busy in front of the camera (including a featured part on Lost) and behind it, producing documentaries including the 2009 Academy Award winner, The Cove. Stevens is now making his Broadway directorial debut with Ghetto Klown, the newest solo show from his old friend and frequent collaborator, John Leguizamo. Below, Stevens offers insight into his lasting and mischievous friendship with Leguizamo, as well as how his documentary work helps with the responisibility of bringing John's life story to the stage.
John Leguizamo and I met in 1988 at the Public Theatre doing A Midsummer Night’s Dream together. (He played Puck; I played Demetrious.) We were pretty rambunctious 24-year-old kids and were always messing with each other. As a joke one day, he put itching powder in my jock during one of my quick changes. I went on stage itching and freaking out—realizing this could only be the work of one person. I retaliated by spraying shaving cream all over his costume and entire dressing room. We were ...
No comments:
Post a Comment