fancycwabs

I needed to submit a headshot and bio to Chatterbox for their web page. I've always wanted to do one that was actually interesting reading instead of just a list of crap I've done, but was usually hampered by the 50 word limit typical to program bios. Chatterbox, on the other hand, provides limitless space for the little details that make things worth reading. Not that there's a whole lot of reading bios on obscure audio theater websites (which is why I'm posting it here, too), but still.

Fancycwabs first started working in audio by pretending to be a radio announcer and singing songs about the bathroom habits of his immediate family and invented food dishes into a cassette recorder at a very young age. Later, in high school, he created a potentially offensive version of Robinson Crusoe as a project for an exploration of Freudian psychology, in which the famous castaway developed a multiple personality disorder and took on the additional personalities of a deep sea explorer and a bumbling French detective, known as Robinson Cousteau and Robinson Clouseau, respectively.

These formative projects are lost to the ravages of time, or at least he hopes so.

His stage career began while he was a student at Georgia Tech, where, to his deep shame, he was twice winner of the William Shatner acting award. He has appeared in productions in Alabama, Georgia, and all around Memphis, including, recently, Measure for Measure, Guys and Dolls, The Taming of The Shrew, A Few Good Men, and Oliver! where he got the opportunity of a lifetime in strangling his beloved wife, Mrs. Cwabs.

He was once upstaged by a cockroach.