I am currently living in Harvard after a pretty rough year filled with illness. The previous ten years are a mixed bag. I have held a wide variety of jobs including: manager of a diner in North Adams, Ma, Stage Manager and Production Coordinator for a theatre in Marshall, MI, clerk in the shipping department of a Southern California art framing gallery, box office staff for a theater in Sarasota, Florida, Dominos Pizza delivery guy in Marathon Key, Florida and Pittsfield, Ma. cemetery caretaker in Harvard, Director of The Harvard Teen Center/Boys and Girls Club in Harvard, and currently box office staff for The North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Ma. I have also managed to get new or leave old body parts all over the country. After nearly dying (exaggeration!) of a bleeding ulcer in Niagara Falls, New York in 1992 while attending Niagara University in pursuit of a BFA in Theatre, I received my first kidney transplant at Buffalo General Hospital in 1994. Two years later, after graduating from Niagara University, I came back to Boston to have both hips replaced.
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After receiving the kidney in 2000 I moved back to Michigan, at the same theatre but this time as Stage Manager and Lighting Designer. Unfortunately in 2002 (Does it ever stop?) we discovered that this kidney too was going to be rejected and I underwent an awful 6-8 months of constant illness and weight loss (I now weigh less then I did in 1983.)Today my health is very good and I have managed to get my feet back on solid ground. I am once again working fulltime at The North Shore Music Theatre and awaiting a third kidney transplant. I hope all is well with you, hope I have not depressed you too much, and look forward to meeting you again this summer.
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