Mr Guy has suffered terribly in over 80 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.; betrayed (Brutus) and beheaded (Buckingham) over three seasons at the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse; and then flogged
(twice nightly) as both Dromios by the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival. |
Not content with just two roles, Jason played all the male characters in "Turn of the Screw" at Tri-State Actor's Theatre (in which he was, incidentally, smothered to death).
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Seeking solace in plays by living playwrights, Mr Guy lost his faith (“Doubt”), his friends (“Art”), his wife (“Time Stands Still"), and finally a finger (at Arkansas Rep’s “The 39 Steps”). After which 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 one-man “I Am My Own Wife”: it was the loneliest thing he’s ever done. So - apparently addicted to horror - he then cavorted with Munchkins - <sigh> yes, and a dog - in Northern Stage's "The Wizard of Oz".
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But it was as Lloyd (the Director in "Noises Off”) that he weathered
the worst abuse known to man: Actors. Ironically he just bowed Off-Broadway, as Real Jay in "The Actors" - a play that taught him that Actors playing Actors are far more palatable than the real thing. |
Convinced that familiarity had indeed bred contempt, Mr Guy then premiered half-a-dozen new plays: at Bridge Street Theater he was jilted and committed suicide ("The Official Adventures ..." and "Casse Noisette", respectively), and 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 soaked nightly (as Don Lockwood on the National Tour of "Singin' in the Rain"), punched repeatedly ("West Side Story"), and fired daily (on National and European Tours of "42nd Street"). Oh, and in Korea, "Annie". I mean ... more children ... must the indignities be delineated?
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Always willing to stretch and grow, Jason persevered through six wretched months aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line’s Getaway in “The Illusionarium”, a magical spectacular that sailed around the Caribbean - and to the Olympics in Rio!
Although he wasn't sawn in half, as you can imagine it was Hell. |
All in all, this litany of maltreatment has traversed all 50 of the United States and fifteen countries across four continents. Mr Guy was born on the pinky of Michigan, grew up on the coast of Maine, and survives (barely) in New York City.
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