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Daniel Bridges
Dan was one of the first actors I got to know in San Francisco,
our collaborations beginning with the No Nude Men production
of Edward II, in which he made a very passionate and kind of
scary Roger Mortimer the Younger, and continuing through the
original production of Speak To Me, in which he created the
role of Gilbert Harris, rendering it with a great deal of natural
charm and All-American boy goofiness. An excellent improver,
Dan had spent almost a year playing Dominic in the San Francisco
cast of Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding, and between
my productions popped up in the performance art piece Daughter
of the Floods as well as nabbing an episode of Court TV’s
“I, Detective.” Not too shockingly, he was looking
to make the jump to Los Angeles and shortly after he created
the role of Eilif in Troijka, he moved south, where he remains
to this day. Troijka was a good show for him to end on, Eilif
having been a particularly difficult role for him and yet one
which he ultimately carried gracefully from his first raging
monologue to his final, desperate suicide scene. Written with
him in mind, the role played to what I think is Dan’s
strength- a certain genuineness and exuberance which almost
reminds one of a teenager, and yet is off-set by the wisdom
of a broader life experience; he excels at being both innocent
and disillusioned at the same time, be it as renegade king or
hopeless rebel, and should he return to the stage there will
never be a dearth of roles for him. At this point Dan seems
pretty determined to make it in film, by the time he’d
left the Bay Area he’d already appeared in at least three
movies, Midnight, Generating Delusions and Gavin’s Shame.
For my part, I wish him the best of luck; he’s a great
guy and was always a fantastic actor to work with. Plus he has
some killer headshots, and as we all know, that’s what
really counts in this business.
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