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Henry Perkins
Henry Perkins stepped in as replacement about a week before we went into production on the 2005 revival of Speak To Me and it ultimately ended up being one of those things where clearly some divine power was sending us a blessing in disguise. An Arizona native, Henry has been acting in the Bay Area theater scene for years, appearing in many a musical with CCMT in Walnut Creek (including Grease, Titanic and South Pacific), as well as Young Zombies in Love at Venue 9 in San Francisco, A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Town Hall Theater in Lafayette and Prisoners of Love with the Organic Theater. He toured for three years as an actor with Kaiser Permenente's teen education program, so it was fairly ironic that we met doing a show where he played Gilbert the lovable coke addict, but lovable he was and every night we knew we could rely on him help keep the comedy relief in the show flowing at a steady rate. Charming, steadfast, and just emotionally volatile enough to be interesting, Henry was always most fun to watch during warm ups because he always seemed vaguely disinterested and yet the first to jump in there and be a team player when necessary. He plays both sides of the young artist well and managed to translate that nicely into the bad boy football player with a heart of gold, but beyond that he brought a thread of genuineness to his performances that can't be learned or directed it's just given by the actor in question; in Henry's case the gift came well wrapped.
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