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Erik Dominguez
Erik Dominguez accompanied Anne Heintz to her audition for The
Oresteia and walked out cast as Orestes- really quite an accomplishment
for a boy whose previous theater experience was primarily speech
and debate class. Actually, this turned out to be a blessing
in disguise as Erik understood something a lot of actors don’t:
the necessity of presence. Very commanding to watch even when
he was going nuts on stage, which was most of the time as Orestes,
Erik cut a heroic figure and was a performer of the clear lines
and clear motivations variety and probably could have had quite
the career playing male ingénues if he had stuck with
theater. As it was he did two more shows with us, playing the
Rennaissance-age cad Frosch in Faust Part One, and opening the
same show as The Poet in Goethe’s prologue in the theater.
He joined the gang for I Laughed I Cried I Shot The Person Next
To Me, appearing in Anne Heintz’ play Charcoal, Werner
James’s Enclosure, reprising his role as Orestes in Chris
McCaleb’s Instant Oresteia and dancing in the zombie chorus
of my The Vampire Sorority Babes vs. The Inter-Galactic Frat
Zombies: A Ballet. I actually wrote the role of Hugo in The
Exiled with him in mind, and he read the role at its first reading,
but ended up being out of town during the show’s run.
These days he’s living in Phoenix, still doing speech
and debate but on the teaching end now, and still introducing
me as “his director.”
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