“Dance #1” is a brief 8mm film I made for a performance in San Francisco, back in 1976.  It was made up of footage from home movies and from old silent movies.  I did a few films like this, but this was the only one to be screened. Here’s what you saw: 1. water pouring […]

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Cracking Up (1996) was a film written and directed by Matt Mitler, who also played the lead, a self-destructive comedian.  I was one of the many downtown performers who appeared.  

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A 1990 profile by Susan Morgan, from Interview.

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In 1989, Art Against AIDS produced a PSA that recreated the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, to a tune by the B-52s.  I was one of many (well, two of many, counting Eddie) to take my place around the drum.  It was quite a crowd.  

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Performa 11 organized a “Visual Art Performance Biennial” in November 2011.  It included a a film series devoted to comedy, curated by Lana Wilson, and screened at Anthology Film Archives, in NYC.  The program for November 14 included a number of videos and performances I did with Michael Smith, and one of my ventriloquism routines […]

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    Before he wrote the musical Rent, Jonathan Larson collaborated with another songwriter, Bob Golden, on Away We Go!, a children’s video about transportation.  I had met Jonathan through New York Theater Workshop, and he called on me to operate the newt puppet that you see here.  I also had a cameo as a […]

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I played a bit part as a character called “Lute Guy” on the eighth episode of the TV show Ed. This was back in 2000; the episode was called “The Whole Truth.” I guess it’s still airing somewhere, as I get occasional residual checks.

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George Kuchar’s 1997 video, The Exiled Files of Eddie Gray, was somewhat of a return to his earlier film, The Corruption of the Damned. Larry Leibowitz and Floraine Conners were reunited onscreen; and John Keel, who had played a bit part, was interviewed in his apartment.  I portrayed a Keel expert in an interstitial segment […]

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Jim Torok paints remarkable miniature oil paintings; he did this portrait of me sometime back in the ’90s.

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There have been a few articles over the years that rang changes on this headline; this one is from Metro Magazine, in 1988.

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