Excuse me while I shamelessly self-promote.
My name is David McGuff, and I’m an actor.
Go go gadget Actor-face
It may surprise some of you to know that I’m actually a real life person with an approximation of a life. Outside of this blog I have a job in which I get paid to teach theater to youth and direct family shows. Also on the side I head up a small independent theater company that produces mature and provocative plays for the community. Yellow Lab Productions (my production company) next show will be Peter Shaffer’s Equus.
The show will be April 24-26, 7:30 PM, at the VK Garage Theater in Kerrville, TX. For more info you can check out the Kickstarter page here (or keep reading the article) where you can also help be a part of the show.
I’m producing this show, but I am an actor first, and so of course I snag myself a juicy role in every show.
My juicy role in Stephen King’s Misery
Audiences poured in to watch me be tortured for two hours. And as a method actor I had my foot cut off each night. Problem was it ran for three nights. Night three contained lots of improvisation.
My juicy role in “Tape”
This play was fun because I got to do a lot of drugs on stage. Powdered milk makes the best cocaine substitute. Baking soda burns.
“The Pillowman” is extra juicy
Come for the Tarantino-esque dialogue. Stay to watch me get my brains blown out. And also to see a child crucified on stage.
As King Creon in “Antigone”
This play was fun because I kill everyone I love, or they kill themselves because of me. Hooray.
The Mad Hatter
No people were killed in this production.
As a lover in Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew”
This is one of the few times I’ve gotten to be a romantic lead. And also funny. I have a habit of only picking very serious shows where I play terrible people. Needless to say, I didn’t pick the above show.
As an attempted rapist in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”
I didn’t pick this one. But I still played an asshole. I have a gift.
My next juicy role will be as Alan in Peter Shaffer’s Equus. I get to be mentally disturbed and murder six innocent horses on stage. I picked this one.
Poster for the show
If Equus sounds familiar, that’s because Daniel Radcliffe brought it to Broadway 7 years ago, and many people lined up to see his other magic wand… Or because it was once upon a time a movie starring Richard Burton and Peter Firth.
It wasn’t very good. Equus is made for the theater, and when you remove the representational and surreal aspects of it to ground it in realism, it loses the power and spirit of the show.
Our show, however, will be very good. I’m extremely excited about this production and think that it could be the best thing we’ve ever done. Which brings me to my (two) real point(s) of this blog: you’re invited if you want to come.
And we’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign to help raise the funds necessary for the show. We have a nice little video. You can listen to me talk about the show (it’s like reading the words I type, but with my voice and face).
Check out the Kickstarter here
Producing independent theater is expensive. And hard. And I soon came to realize why nobody else was doing what I was doing. But that didn’t (and doesn’t) stop me. I’m not asking for donations (because that would break wordpress rules) I am however just leaving the page here, for your viewing pleasure. If you end up on that page, I can’t be responsible for what happens. But, give it a read, spread the word, tell your friends, or just put a face (and passion) to one of the contributors of this nice little blog.
Poster 3
And here’s my first role ever on stage:
Call me juicy
A little slideshow of some of my roles, because shameless…
