When I was young my father, Fred C. Forsman, an actor also, sat me in the upper balcony of the Wharf Theater in Monterey.  He said, "Bud, an actor must reach the last person in the last row of this balcony."

The Wharf had 500 seats in 1962, food for thought thirty years later.  I wander a bloodline called thespian, ancestors, all black sheep.

Its being heard, its being understood and its the presentation of a new perspective, to make sense of this complicated oddity called humankind.

For an audience to hear they need to laugh, they need to cry. Will I, or we, still be able to move the audience after telling the same story a hundred times?


RIVERSIDE DRIVE
Written by Woody Allen & directed by Brian Katz

Location: Custom Made Theater Company
965 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

Through December 13th, 2008