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Actor, Author, Director to Speak on
Creativity in the Theatre
Actor,
writer, director, storyteller, Bill Mooney, returns to Salado in April
to kick off the Institute for the Humanities’ year-long series
entitled Creativity! At his
performance and lecture Sunday,
April 6, Mooney will discuss his writing, acting and directing
career. He will also perform portions from his assorted one-man shows
and tell some of his award-winning stories.
Mooney has been telling stories since the late 60’s when
his one-man show, Half Horse,
Half Alligator, featuring humorous tales from America’s
frontier, opened to rave reviews off Broadway in New York. For the
next three decades, his storytelling flourished alongside his
successful acting career, as he appeared in plays on and off-Broadway,
in movies, on television shows and in commercials. He starred as Paul
Martin for 13 years on the ABC daytime serial, All My Children, and is a
two-time Emmy nominee for that role.
He is a featured storyteller yearly at the National
Storytelling Festival and other events around the country and the
world, but he is best known in the story-telling world for his one-man
shows which he researches and writes himself.
Two of them have been filmed and televised as PBS Specials:
With A Dog’s Eyes, the
story of Morris Frank, founder of the organization that trains guide
dogs for the blind, and Damn
Everything But The Circus, based on the writings of E. E.
Cummings.
Besides his shows, Mooney has also written a number
of books on storytelling and speechmaking and co-produced two
award-winning and Grammy nominated audio tapes.
Bill has directed more than
forty productions in New York, Europe and Colorado, including eight
seasons of the CU Opera summer festival.
Some of his on and off-Broadway plays and movies include A
Man for All Seasons, Lolita, and movies such as Network,
Second Sight, and A
Flash of Green. Television
shows include the Today Show, As
The World Turns, One Life To Live, and Loving.
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