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Meet Adam Verner

Adam Verner

Hometown:  Dixon, IL

Roles in RTSF 08:
Pinch in The Comedy of Errors
1st Merchant and Nell in The Winter's Tale

How did you get involved in acting?
It runs in the family. The stage brought together both my grandparents and parents. My grandparents met doing You Can't Take It With You, and my mother first met my father seeing him in a production of Little Foxes. I approached acting from a slightly different direction, through the reading and telling of stories.

What was your first acting experience?
If you discount when I was in the womb for a production of Arsenic and Old Lace that both my parents were in, I first appeared in a play my freshman year of high school, in an original work written by my then-history professor: Crooks, Convicts, and Coyotes, a 10-little Indians type mystery play.

What has been your favorite role?
I was a huge fan recently of the Troll King in Peer Gynt, complete with fat suit and pig nose.

What's your favorite play?
I'm a fan of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard.

Who is your favorite Shakespeare character?
I've always loved and wanted desperately to play the Fool in King Lear. The beautiful way he mocks the power and authority of the King while loving him more than the others.

Why does performing Shakespeare interest you?
There's so many challenges to the text that you have to rise to meet...the poetry, the imagery, the heightened emotional states. It demands more of your senses as an actor and as an audience member.

Who are your heroes?
Jesus Christ, Henri Nouwen, and Madeleine L'Engle...to name a few.

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