Wayback Wednesday Meets Today

Wednesdays have become known as #waybackwednesday.
So today go way back we highlight our friend & former student Seth Chalmer

 

Why? Seth (who started working with us when he was in 8th grade) has a big birthday coming up. And he just posted the following message (& fundraiser) for LNT on Facebook.

 Thank you, Seth, your words mean more than we can say.

 

"On Feb 12 I turn 40, and that has me thinking back as well as forward. Friends, do you remember *that place* when you were growing up—the place you finally felt you belonged? The place where the people were your people? The place where you were both accepted as you already were and challenged to be better than you knew you could be? The place where you felt you had a chance to shape what was happening, and also to be shaped by it? Well, for me in high school, that place was Lost Nation Theater. Kim Bent & Kathleen Keenan were boundlessly kind, supportive, and respectful enough to be challenging as well, in all the best ways.

 For those of my friends who aren't Vermonters (or haven't come through LNT as theater pros) and don't know, Lost Nation Theater is all of what's best in a professional theater and all of what's best in a community theater. Sometimes they bring in incredible union talent from NYC and elsewhere, people with major credits from stage and screen; and sometimes they cast local kids and grownups. Often, both within a single production. They do avante-garde and risky, envelope-pushing productions, and also the sweet old favorites. They are committed to quality theater in communion with the wider world of theater, but they are also profoundly embedded in the local community of Montpelier, Vermont, partnering with City Hall, local schools, local businesses, etc. They are just the beating heart of the place.

Please consider contributing to this incredible local institution, whether you've ever been to Montpelier or not. I will so deeply appreciate even a single dollar gift to them. Truly!"

 

here's the link if you are so inspired: https://www.facebook.com/donate/991053201809594/991053218476259/

Photos: Seth in

- Richard III (directed by Ann Harvey, sets, lights & props by Claiborne H Coyle; costumes by Ken Anders; also in pic Owen Walz, John D Alexander, Gus Kaikkonen, Ken Anders, Seaumus Levine Wilkinson, Dan Renkin among others)

- Lost in Yonkers (directed by Bill Hickok, costumes by Cora Fauser)

- 1940's Radio Hour (also in pic: Liz Capinera; set by Robert Wolff, costumes Cora Fauser).

Sadly, photos from his HS career are yet to be digitized, but I did find this one of him playing Grandpa in 1998’s “You Can’t Take It With You” (directed by Danielle Sertz, sets & lights by Shira Jonker- sorry we’ve lost the records and I don’t remember who costumed! also in pic Robyn King, Colin Gunn, Mali O'Brien among others)