Role:           Jacob/multiple roles
Where:        A Contemporary Theater
Playwright:  Steven Dietz

This is another original play about Steven Dietz's ancestry.  He's a Volga German, Germans going to Russia to settle the Volga Valley and then got screwed in World War II and came to America. There are a lot of Volga Germans in America. (clip) A wonderful story.  Yeah - white boy Roots (laughs) but really effective and it has the same kind of lift as Roots, just in the pride of your ancestry and the interest of how did these people come here and build this that we are enjoying, sitting on our soft couches, our surround couches and stuff.  And I got to work with Steven Dietz who was just an amazing person who just exudes love and warmth and wisdom.  He's a wonderful playwright. He wrote a great play called Halcyon Days which was a big hit all around the country about the 80's and the psychological mindset that allowed for the likes of Ronald Reagan.  JM.com 2007

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" In an ensemble that rarely pauses to catch its breath, McCarthy, Katie Forgette, and James Marsters bring extra intensity to their multiple roles.   Misha Berson · Seattle Times · June 2, 1995

"A cast of 10 sketches the gallery of characters. Lori Larsen, R. Hamilton Wright, Anne Christianson, Liz McCarthy, James Marsters, Alban Dennis, Kate Brickley, Katie Forgette, Allen Galli and Michael Winters alternate between sharp characterizations and incidental filler."  Joe Adcock · Seattle Post-Intelligencer ·  June 3, 1995