Arts & Culture Magazine - November/December 2007 - (Page 30) THE PLAYERS THEATRE By Chris Angermann When Jeffery Kin got the job as artistic director of the Players Theatre this past summer, he also inherited next year’s season. Directors and designers were already booked. “I was one of them,” he says with a laugh. He soon came to feel that it was a blessing in disguise. “I had no idea that I’d be 4 or 5 months behind. I wasn’t thinking about next season in April, and now I am playing catch-up.” In the early days of his tenure, he also made a point of talking to as many actors and directors as possible—those that were working at the Players Theatre and those that had stopped working there. He found that most felt they were not getting enough attention. Kin was already aware of the limited venues and support for local non-professional theater because of his experiences in starting Eclectic Theatre Company and Full Moon Theater Company. So he decided to do something about it. “If there is going to be a place that local people should be able to go and have a solid home, it should be your community theater,” he insists. “I want to put the community back in community theater.” In many ways, his background is tailor-made to accomplish that goal. Kin grew up in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He still remembers going to his first play in junior high school. “It changed my life,” he says.” By the time he was 13, he was acting in local community theater. “In many ways it was like family,” he remembers. “It taught me what community theater is all about.” After college he spent 15 years in New York City as a professional actor. “I did some classical plays, but because I was a singer and could move, I got mostly musical theater roles,” he recalls. “When I had my 50th audition for West Side Story, I thought I’d slit my wrist.” Feeling miserable, he decided to retire from professional theater. He heeded the call of friends in Florida and moved to Sara- 30 : : arts and culture magazine
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