Meet my Sweetheart, Sara!

Since it's been terribly long since I've been in touch with lots of youse, I first need to make sure you all are caught up on the number one blessing in my life.  Sara Phillips is her name and she's a gem.  In addition to being an actor, she is an up-and-coming expert in the field of Theatrical Voice.  She's talented, ambitious, and way smarter than me.  Her family is from Laurel, MD where George Wallace was shot.  She had nothing to do with that, however.  I feel I know her pretty well, and can safely say she would never do such a thing.

Sara most recently worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which is the biggest of it's kind in the country.  She has worked and trained with the best in the business, and I'm confident she is on her way to becoming one of them in due course.  

We met back in Fall '06, when I was performing in a show called "Muskie Love" in Madison.  She got her Masters in Acting at the UW with one of the other cast members, and so came to see the show.  Turns out she had seen me the previous winter in "Guys On Ice" in Madison.  So her first impressions of me were as "Ernie the Moocher" and "DNR Doug."  If you haven't seen me in either of these roles, let's just say that the fact that she was still interested in me after that is proof of her quality.

I'm ridiculously lucky to have her.