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Gary is an accomplished actor and improviser with experience doing voice-over and stage tech. He performs in plays and in improv shows in the Portland/Vancouver area, teaches improv workshops and develops scripts and sketches. Not only is this labor of love personally fulfilling, but it provides innumerable ideas for team-building workshops and keeping long meetings fun. Gary first hit the stage in 2002, taking improvisation workshops at ComedySportz in Portland. By the end of that year he had appeared in seven improv shows in Portland and Eugene, OR. In 2003 he added sketch comedy to his repertoire, both developing sketches and performing. He expanded his work into semi-improvised dinner theater in 2005, then played his first stage role with New Century Players in 2006. Gary has now played over 100 improv shows and five mainstage plays with various area theater companies. He also teaches improv workshops and has developed three full-length stage plays.
In summary, in the stage arena, C&A’s stage services include: · Improvisation workshops · Developing scripts and sketches · Acting and improvisation |
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Acting, Improvising, and Playwriting |
Just Closed |
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“PS, I Love Your Daughter.” Kicked off Coho Theater’s “World Premier Summer,” June 17-20, 2010. Director: Erin Thomas. Gary wrote and produced this one-act comedy about a 45-year-old man who falls for his best friend’s 30-year-old daughter.
“Happy Anniversary” - January 30, 2010, 10:30 PM — Fertile Ground Festival Gerding Theater at the Portland Armory, 128 NW Eleventh Avenue, Portland, OR. Staged reading of one of Gary’s original works as part of the Fertile Ground Festival of New Work.
“Good Citizen” - January 30, 2010, 2 PM and February 2, 7:30 PM—Fertile Ground Festival Staged Reading, Coho Theater. On a cold Friday night in March, Minoru Yasui tests the constitutionality of a curfew imposed on all people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. "Good Citizen" follows Yasui’s story, and reverberates with the history of a national policy that imprisons 70,000 U.S. citizens – men, women, and children – without due process. |
Coming Soon |
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Willamette Writers Actors/Writers Performance Lab Workshops Role: Actor/reader, several roles. Staged readings of excerpts of six original plays. August 6, 2010, Sheraton Inn at the Portland Airport.
24-Hour Plays. Playwright. Four writers, four directors, and 30 actors create, rehearse, and perform four one-act plays in 24 hours. Performance: August 14, 2010, 8 PM, at CoHo Theater. Buy tickets
“The Seven Year Itch” by George Axelrod, The Bert Mann Theater, Portland, OR. October 15-24, 2010.
Role: Tom. While his wife and son escape the brutal New York summer heat, Richard just might have to scratch that Seven Year Itch when a beautiful young girl moves into the apartment upstairs. But is wife Helen up to in Maine? |
Other Performances |
Improv |
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Comedy Improv – unscripted theater for all ages! Performed in theaters around Portland – and we’ll come to you, too. ComedySportz Portland — Family-friendly short-form improv. Over 100 short-form improv shows as well as several “after-hours” long form performances. Performed at ComedySportz, 1963 NW Kearney, Portland, OR, Sunday evenings, 6 PM. Next performance: Aug 1, 2010. Magenta Improv Theater— Short-form improv comes to the 'Couv! “MIT” brings smart, family-friendly short-form improv to its stage monthly in their new location, 606 Main St, in downtown Vancouver. See Magenta Theater’s website for show times. Daisy Chain— Late-night short-form improv, Tuesdays at 10 PM, July 14-August 25, 2009. Coho Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh, Portland, OR. Writer’s Block— Gary’s independent short-form performance troupe. First performed together August 2005. Book a show for your company dinner or party!
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Theater and Sketch |
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"Wit," by Margaret Edson, directed by Dorinda Toner Role: Dr. Kelekian/Mr. Bearing. Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., expert on the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. During the course of her illness, Vivian comes to reassess her life and work with a profundity and humor that are transformative. Sept 5-27, Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 2 PM. Slocum House Theater, 605 Esther St, Vancouver, WA. "24 Hour Productions" Role: Actor. 24-hour Theater. Sunday, August 2, 2009. 4 writers and 30 actors created and performed four one-act plays in 24 hours. Coho Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh, Portland, OR. Produced by Erin Thomas. “The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa,” by Luis Diaz, Milagro Theater, directed by Olga Sanchez. May 8-30, 2009. Role: La Jura (Policeman). “Gary Corbin's cameo as a police officer makes the humor in this 45-year-old play seem fresh.” - Allison Hallet, Portland Mercury "Arsenic and Old Lace" by Joseph Kesselring, a Magenta Theater production. Directed by Darren Mitchell. Role: Jonathan Brewster. Mortimer Brewster, a renowned theater critic, discovers that his kindly old aunts have a bad habit of poisoning lonely, old men with elderberry wine to ease their suffering. With the unexpected arrival of Mortimer’s devious and slightly homicidal other brother, Jonathan, things take a turn for the worse. Can Mortimer outwit Jonathan, maintain his engagement, keep the police from finding the truth, and figure out what to do with the body in the window-seat before it’s too late? “Once Upon a Palace Purple”, written and directed by Jaynie Roberts. A Magenta Theater production. Role: Red King Uberoff. "Purple" is an "unconventional fairy tale" told in a musical comedy format. Sisters Queen Violet of the Purple Kingdom and Scandalous of the Red Kingdom have been rivals since birth. Now it's a race to see who can marry off their daughters first. The Red princesses are gorgeous and talented; the Purples, not so much. The VanCougar (Western Washington University) called Gary’s performance “professional.” “Fatal Passage,” by Rose Richards, directed by Donna Sellman-Pilorget and Elisabeth Goebel. Role: Detective Cagney (lead). Fatal Passage is a murder mystery dinner theater set in 1962 on an ocean liner. Hard-boiled Detective Cagney has the job of solving the mysterious murder of a New York gangster on board. KCSz News A look at News, Sports, and Weather from the twisted prism of ComedySportz. Shows staged May 20, August 18, and October 20, 2006, and January 19, 2007. Appeared as regular character “Buzz Greenfield, Sports Anchor.” Wrote sketeches, and wrote and performed in five video sketches aired during show performances. Willamette Writers Actors/Writers Performance Lab Workshops Staged readings of excerpts of six original plays per year. Read several roles. August 2006-2009, Sheraton Inn at the Portland Airport. Dr. Harrigan in “Perfection” "Perfection," by Helen Hill. Lead role. Performed as a radio play/stage reading July 16, 2006 at the Coho Theater. Eddie May Murder Mysteries—various roles, December 2005— January 2007 Dinner theater to die for! John Breen’s Sketch Lab – March 2004 and September 2005 Wrote and performed sketches in ensemble format performances, ComedySportz. |
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Voice-over “Steel Magnolias,” by Robert Harling, Magenta Theater, directed by Dorinda Toner, 606 Main St, Vancouver, WA. Dialect coach and voice-over role of DJ. April 30-May 16, 2009. garBski Sound and voice-over for Leslie Garbett and Kathryn Bukowski's hilarious glimpse into what two women REALLY talk about when nobody else is around. Come see what they do with their Twinkies! Debut performance May 19, 2006. Federal Bureau of Alternate Reality Sound engineer and bit-part contributor in this radio play based on the novel by Douglas Watson. Aired December 2003-January 2004. Commercial Played two roles – “Earl” and “the unhelpful clerk” – in a Platt Electric training film by Oregon Media Services, 2005. Sound technician Gary has been the “Sound Guy” at some 40+ ComedySportz shows including “Puppetz vs. People” and after-hours and remote shows. Sound tech at CSz includes sound effects, music, player introductions, announcements, and lighting. |
Film and Voice |
