The first time I stepped foot into a theater was when I decided to audition for a college production of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth. I was cast as Mr. Antrobus, a brash philandering politician who represented the can-do human spirit that keeps good people going regardless of what comes their way. I auditioned because I was planning to fall in love with someone who told me that she too was auditioning. She didn’t. So I fell in love with the art form instead. By chance, I was hired to direct the show years later a couple of other times but it wasn’t until I directed and designed a version for Chapman University that I found a truth in the play that made me feel like it was relevant to our current world situation. The pictures below are from that production.