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Jason Guy has suffered terribly in over 70 professional productions ranging from Shakespeare to tap dancing - sometimes both at once - and everything in between.
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He was poisoned (as Hamlet) and beaten (Malvolio) with the National Shakespeare Co.; he was betrayed (Brutus) and beheaded (Buckingham) throughout two seasons at the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse; and he was flogged - twice - (as both Dromios) by the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival.
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Not content with just two roles, Jason played all the male characters in "Turn of the Screw" (in which he was, incidentally, smothered to death).
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Seeking solace in plays by living authors, Mr Guy lost his faith (“Doubt”), his friends (“Art”), his wife (“Time Stands Still”), and finally a finger (in Arkansas Rep’s “The 39 Steps”). Immediately thereafter he was vomited on in “God of Carnage” (at the otherwise beautiful Cape May Stage).
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Fearing scene partners were to blame, Jason performed every role in Cortland Rep’s “I Am My Own Wife”; it was the loneliest thing he’s ever done. But it was as the Director - Lloyd in "Noises Off” - that he weathered the worst abuse known to man: Actors.
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In a blissfully welcome turn of events, he beat, pummeled, and tortured someone else in the Flea Theater's long-running "Back of the Throat", Directed by Jim Simpson.
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Turning to musicals in hopes of lighter fare, he was punched repeatedly ("West Side Story"), soaked nightly (Don Lockwood in "Singin' in the Rain" all over the country), and fired daily ("42nd Street" all over the world).
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More recently Jason persevered through six wretched months in Norwegian Cruise Line’s “Illusionarium”, a magical spectacular that sailed from the Caribbean to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janiero: it was Hell. In total, this litany of maltreatment has traversed all 50 of the United States, fifteen countries, and four continents. Mr Guy was born on the pinky of Michigan, grew up on the coast of Maine, and lives in New York City. |