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Adam Kempton Smith
Adam and I went to high school together, and after college he was my first housemate for a few months, during which he got involved with my theater life, as friends and housemates have occasionally been known to do. He'd had a brief stint earlier when he stepped in to assistant direct Orestia, and he read William in the first two workshops of Rumpelstiltskin, as well as stage directions for the first reading of A Random Act of Creation, but it wasn't until Horror Unspeakable's fledgling production, Salome, that he finally made it on stage in a costume, playing one of the outspoken Jews involved in the famous religious debate over the existence of angels. He and I experienced a falling out shortly after that show that resulted in me moving on to greener (and might I add, substantially cleaner) pastures, but he did continue acting, playing small roles in Quicksilver's Hello Out There and The Forced Marriage. The last I heard he lives in San Diego, doing what I don't know. Interestingly enough, Rumpelstiltskin is dedicated to him, a testimony to a simpler time in high school when he and I would hang out in the Village Inn and talk about movies and girls and everything else you talk about with a friend. Rumpelstiltskin rose out of those conversations, and will always belong to that time, and William will always, more or less, be Adam Kempton Smith.
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