Off Off Pod - Episode 023 - Steve Sherman – Actor in University of Tennessee Masters Program

Steve Sherman in Spamalot at the Clarence Brown Theater

Jessi Blue Gormezano and Steve Sherman in Home of the Great Pecan. Photo by Lee Wexler.

I was introduced to actor Steve Sherman by my buddy Dave Marantz, and he was great in my play, Home of the Great Pecan as Deputy Diggity.  I liked him so much I asked him to be in a workshop to help me develop a new play I'd been working on called Hole.

That was in New York City.  As it happens we are both in Tennessee at the moment, he as a student in University of Tennessee's graduate acting program which is connected to the Clarence Brown Theater -- a LORT Theater.  And he's in Spamalot which is opening there tonight!

It was great to get the perspective of an actor who had been out in the professional world and had gone back to school.

Topics covered in the interview:

• Intro  (0:00)
• Hello Steve! His beginnings and how he got the bug (2:58)
• Producing his own work in New York City (On Campus) and developing new work (5:44)
• Improv in LA  (8:31)
• Going back to school - Grad school at University of Tennessee (10:25)
• Living in the South, long distance relationship (13:14)
• The plan - teaching or acting (16:04)
• Working with the Clarence Brown Theater (18:12)
• Teaching an improv class and taking classes as a student (23:25)
• After the masters program (28:58)
• "Bizarre, Interesting or Horrible Audition Stories" (30:14)