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Meet
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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