![]() ![]() As a non-professional, when you get to do that kind of thing with a good solid cast, you just feel lucky.ĭM: And you’re bringing your own weight (The fact that we’re running we come home we wolf down dinner we’re exhausted we’re not professionals). And we would all look at each other and say, “I don’t know how we can possibly do this.” And then we would step on stage and speak those words, and you were so glad, lucky to be able to speak them. Then you have an emotionally wrenching play to do. JR: You get to the end of a work day, and you’re exhausted. Sometimes when I get up at 5 in the morning, I think, “Why am I doing this?”ĮH: Judith, how was your experience performing in “Death of a Salesman” at the Randall Theatre? That, for me, was really something.ĮH: How do you manage acting and working full time?ĭM: The balance of being employed full time and trying feed that other part of the soul can stretch the hours of the day and can stress the voice. ![]() It showed a sense of humor as well as passion. I want to get to know this woman better.” Then I saw her in the production of “The Rainmaker” this was a woman that we would recognize today as having a strong will and a strong mind. At one point, Judith unleashed this verbose torrent upon her hapless partner, and I thought, “This is interesting. The play was about two couples, who had each slept with the other’s spouse, and the consequence of that cross-relationship. We met at a reading of a play called “Bodies” at the Camelot Theatre. When I moved here, I wanted to get up on skis, learn to read biblical Hebrew, and get back to some acting.ĭM: For me, I graduated from high school and went to college with the idea of becoming a performer in opera. Then I was in academia for a chunk of time. JR: In the beginning it was definitely a place to do things that I could not do in my own persona. DM: You’re actually exposing yourself more than hiding. As you mature a bit, you realize that you can’t hide in a role. So I could hide in a role and do things I could never do (as myself) in public. They’re the constant exhibitionists and performers or, as I was, excruciatingly shy. People often come from one of two directions. This is a first of a two-part column.ĮH: Were you in theater before you came to Ashland? Rosen is development director of the Jackson County Sexual Assault Response Team and writer/dramaturg for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. ![]() Matthews is classical music director and host at Jefferson Public Radio and a voice instructor at Southern Oregon University. Both actors have successful full-time careers. Both actors have played in numerous productions at theaters throughout the Rogue Valley. Judith Rosen and Don Matthews recently performed together in a charming production of Neil Simon’s “Same Time Next Year” at the Randall Theatre in Medford. ![]()
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