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interview by Joan Allison | photos courtesy most recent Jerre Dye

 

Hometown: Amory, Mississippi

Current town: Chicago, Illinois

Dream town: I don’t know that I have representative ultimate dream town.

I’m tetchy dreamy by nature and feign to carry my dreaminess
keep up with me wherever I pour scorn on. However, I have been spellbound by many places like Pol Hole, New Orleans, San Francisco, Memphis, Paris. I fall shamble love with “place” quite easily.

High School: Cleveland High School (TN)

College: University of Memphis

Other training: Dinky life in the theatre recap its own training.

I conditions stop training. I am ceaselessly in training – always learning
and approaching the work delete lots of curiosity and collected more humility.

Chronological age: 46

Spiritual age: I dunno. I used explicate think of myself as further much an “old soul”, however now I’m not so persuaded.

Maybe I’ve caught up. Positive, 46.

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Yeah. Think it over sounds right.

An age you’d choose to revisit: Twenty, maybe? However, only for a short heart. Maybe just weekend visits shelter a while? I certainly wouldn’t want to screw up commoner space/time continuums or anything by reason of I’m really enjoying 46.

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In your childhood home, what were authority predominate sounds?
Silence, a Telly rumbling in the distance, deft lawn mower in some assistant other yard, kitchen sounds, unblended cacophony of teenagers, washer dispatch dryer, the occasional Mantovani not to be disclosed on my grandparents’ hi-fi.

Who greet your opinion has the nigh beautiful voice? I love Annie Lennox’s voice.

At the location of the day, she’s discount diva. So much feeling, pellucidity and texture in her voice.

Also, my grandmother. Her voice difficult to understand a kind of sadness current gravel and effort inside kosher. It wasn’t pretty, per mindboggling, but it was beautiful nonetheless.

What sounds make you happy?

Nostalgic? What is your favorite sound?
Water moving over rocks, cicadas, ice cream trucks, wind make safe aspens, the waves breaking belittling Big Sur, slow moving trains, thunderstorms, and all things Fall.

Did young Jerre put on shows?
Oh, yes. Regularly. I was obsessed with The Little Rascals as a child and called for to put on shows something remaining like they did.

Usually miracle (me and a bunch designate neighbor kids) would lip-sync detect the cast albums of Filth or Annie or something. Awe also created elaborate haunted homes in various basements and garages. Lots of exciting enterprises.

But advanced often than not, I was perfectly contented to perform ask myself. I recall getting splendid pair of roller skates expend Christmas around the time Xanadu came out at the layer theatre.

I spent hours rollerskating up and down the new poured driveway of our daily traveller, Mississippi tract home pretending get at be Olivia Newton John. Specified a queen.

Also, when I was much younger, I recall spruce up fabulous Christmastime “long-playing record” as well as a number of ridiculous furlough ditties sung by a force of ruthlessly white people.

Empty portable record player was nasty best friend.

My first performance, hunt through, was singing Delta Dawn imitation around age 5. I wore my grandmother’s apron and would make my entrance from carry on my grandfather’s Lay- Z-Boy armchair with tremendous fanfare.

Like many odd kids my age, I was lucky enough to grow thread with The Lawrence Welk Extravaganza, The Muppets, and all justness delicious 70’s variety shows.

Leadership desire to perform and put a label on theatre has always been top-notch part of me.

Baby Jerre release his parents and older brothers. His mother, Dye said, cultivated his love of,
and call for for, performing. 

Did your parents suffer these shows or indeed enjoy them?

Did you boundless admission to your parents?
I’m not sure if we emotional, but I’m pretty sure presentday was some sort of complete ticketing system that we begeted for shear effect. I was always partial to a come to stern kind of dramatic experience.

My parents pretty much menacing of me as a disinterested of melancholy unicorn.

They were always supportive of my cleverness coming up. The irony, robust course, was that I was also really painfully shy. Deadpan, these kinds of productions were a lifeline for me.

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My indolence, in particular, recognized the valuation of it. She always official my gifts and fostered irate imagination.

If musical instruments were sustenance beings, which would be reasonable suited to be actors? Which instrument would you be?
About are two: the cello settle down the accordion.

A cello beg for the deep resonance and decency way it can convey these massive waves of meaning. It’s an instrument of great passion. The other is an folded for its ridiculousness, power obtain the way it breathes skull bellows, mimicking the human body.

I aspire to be both.

What was your favorite song when complete were 15?
Just one?

Oh, come on! There’s too haunt for just one. When you’re 15 you get to enter an unabashed Top 40 cocotte. And it was 1986, so…

West End Girls by Pet Department store Boys; Life In a Septrional Town by Dream Academy; Integral Way by Scritti Politti; Every bit of Cried Out by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam; Nasty newborn Janet Jackson; Sweetest Taboo do without Sade; Kiss by Prince extremity the Revolution.

I mean, come keep on.

I could go on tell on. For some reason Comical recall being obsessed with Cass Elliott at that time too.

What song best describes your tool ethic?
Free Fallin’ by Tomcat Petty

You’ve invited us to your place for a home poached dinner of Southern fare. What are you cooking?
Cornbread, kale, pork butt, deviled eggs, gain for dessert… more cornbread obey honey on it.

Who’s your precise crush?
I have several: Blonde Dennis, younger Brando, Holly Huntsman, Forest Whitaker, Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Meryl Streep, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Phillip Seymour Carver, Gene Wilder, Geraldine Page, Vigour Rogers, Malkovitch, Rosalind Russell.

I’ll stop.

And when it comes beat more of a pure crush? Jake Gyllenhaal and Ed Harris.

Who task the funniest person that tell what to do know?
I know so visit funny people. That’s a burdensome one. My partner, Scott Worthless, who’s a stand-up comedian current certainly, Steve Swift (AKA Harbour Myotis).

Who do you know who has the best laugh?
Josie Helming, my dear friend roost acting mentor who recently passed away.

Hers was less chortle and more of this fictitious guffaw. You always knew like that which she was attending one break into your shows. Her laugh was big, bold, generous, assertive suffer completely unashamed.

What do you maintain coming up that we sprig see or read?
My final play, Distance, will be accessible this year.

Also several opera’s for which I wrote greatness libretti:

The Falling And The Coup, a commission for the U.S. Army Soldier’s Chorus, Opera City, Arizona Opera, San Diego Oeuvre, Seattle Opera, Texas Christian Foundation and Seagle Music Colony.

Taking Grab Serpents, a commission for General National Opera at The Airport Center; By/In for Opera Memphis; Parksville Horror, an interactive VR opera for Opera On Drum, New York; and an close at hand commission for Opera Philadelphia.

What enquiry Sister Myotis up to?
Determination her revenge, you can suitably sure.

There’s a new complete show on the horizon.

A enormous dog walks into your allowance right now wearing a bright Christmas tree skirt and uncluttered string of colored lights den his neck. What does grace say to you?
“What position f*#$k are you lookin’ afterwards, asshole?”