Recipient of theJohn F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
National Acting Award
Performances at the Kennedy Center and the Westside Theatre in New York
I was born A.D.1951 in the Pacific Northwest to a pair of hunter/gathers, and for the first ten years of my life we ate what we shot, caught, or grew. Mom, my little brother and me, often bussed to Eastern Washington and worked the orchards for extra cash. Divorce soon followed, Dad kept up his hunting ways and Mom became the first Policewoman in Everett, Washington. The Roxy movie theatre became my sitter, and I came to believe the real world was just like the one on the Silver Screen. Naturally, I gravitated toward the dramatic and excelled as an actor, eventually working professionally in the theatre. A future astronaut friend dared me to try selling a science fiction story I previously claimed would be easy … and I did! I became addicted to writing as well as performing on the stage. When not in front of an audience I pounded my Underwood wordsmithing fiction for magazines and non-fiction for the papers. I toured my one man show Four Tales and later The Thriller Radio Show off and on for over twenty years. Also found time to fall in love … many times, and the result is two beautiful daughters, Jenafer and Sophia, as well as a heroic environmentalist stepdaughter, Jocelyn Hanbey. Grandchildren, yes and … ahem … a couple great grandchildren, and now I live happily writing, reading, and acting a stone throw from Port Gardner Bay with my life partner and friend Carol …
