Russell C. Smith II (Skip)
Born October 26 1944
Married to Barbara Smith two
daughters - Katie, 17 and Megan, 15 (all redheads!)
Film
Richard In Walter Ungerer’s film
Lunch with Clara
One line In Fred Levine’s
The Way We Pay For Schools (Vermont NEA video)
Stage
Actor & Songwriter, Vermont
Literacy Theatre (Improvisational Troupe)
Moonface Martin, (Public Enemy
#13), Anything Goes
Ray Caulder, Lone Star
Charlie Brown, You’re A Good
Man, Charlie Brown (1961 & 2000)
Charlie Brown, Snoopy
Harry, Who Am I This Time?
Dr. Seward, Dracula
Fred (Scrooge’s nephew),
Stingiest Man in Town
Barnaby Tucker, Hello Dolly
Marcus Lycus, A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum
Assorted characters In LiNES,
Arsenic and Old Lace, Brigadoon, Celebration, South Pacific,
Mister Roberts, Pirates of Penzance, Ruddigore. H.MS. Pinafore
and various variety shows
Television
TV Spots for Vermont Lottery
Commission and UVM Extension Service
CBS Evening News (Just my voice
for a "bright" on fall foliage in Vermont. I wrote and
recorded the daily foliage hotline at Vermont Travel Division
1982-84)
Interviewee: WVNY (Burlington) and
Channel 10 (Lansing MI)
Panelist: Vermont ETV's Hotline
Radio
Spots for Clarke Communication
Group (Montpelier), Vermont Travel Information Council,
Vermont Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Regular visitor on WDEV
(Waterbury) and WSKI (Montpelier) talk shows to promote
community theater productions
Miscellaneous Experiences
IParachute jump to write story about
skydiving; broke ankle on landing; 1973
Two months bicycling in Morocco,
1971
Helicopter door gunner, armored
personnel carrier driver, Viet Nam, 1968
Continue playing basketball until
Just recently
Coach, Odyssey of the Mind
Coach of youth sports (basketball
soccer, softball)
Elected Montpelier School Board
Commissioner, 1996, 1999
President Vermont Children’s Forum,
Barre Players
Secretary Barre Opera House,
Montpelier Theatre Guild, Vermont Children’s Forum
Film editing course at UVM
Cross country hitchhiking, 1972-75
Directing
Director: Oklahoma! (Barre
Players),
FAME
(Montpelier High School)
Co-Director, Barre Players: LiNES
(original production), Kiss Me Kate, Lovers & Other
Strangers.
Co-Director, Montpelier Theater
Guild: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2001)
Co-Director, Montpelier Children’s
Theater Guild: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1994),
Fastest Thimble of the West (1995)
Managing Director, How to Eat
Like A Child (Montpelier Theatre Guild directors’ showcase -
eight directors)
Production
Producer: Celebration, Anything
Goes, A Christmas Carol: Scrooge & Marley, Pablo’s Circus
(original opera)
Co-Producer, Stage: Sweet
Charity, H.M.S. Pinafore, Orpheus in the Underworld, Snoopy,
Cosi Fan Tutti, Pagliacci
Co-Producer, TV: Community
Connections — collaboration of VideoVision (Barre) and Vermont
Agency of Human Services
Composed songs for LiNES, Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory, and Fastest Thimble in the West
Designed/coordinated sets, lighting;
posters, programs, publicity, stage manager duties, for various
shows
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