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MathemActor

MathemActor (AKA John)

About Me

Mathematician, Actor, Director, and Renaissance Festival minor celebrity, this season as Bertram Ripley, alchemist. Artistic Associate of Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Artistic Associate of the Landless Theater Company, Member of the Company of the Rose Professional Acting Troupe. Faculty of the Johns Hopkins University, Member of the American Mathematical Society, Member of Sigma Xi, scientific research honorary.

My Interests

Mathematics (especially Diophantine approximations, transcendental number theory, geometry of numbers, symbolic algebra, Grobner bases, numerical nonlinear algebra, harmonic analysis, time-scale and time-frequency transforms, computational complexity, etc. etc.), Theater (especially live theater, acting, children's theater, stuff written hundreds of years ago, directing, designing, fringe theater, etc.), Music (all kinds), Writing, Other Stuff as the mood grabs me.

I'd like to meet:

My feminine side

Music:

Phish, Grateful Dead, Klezmatics, Woodie Guthrie, Kinky Friedman, Elizabeth Cook, Everyone who plays at Renaissance Festivals but especially those who play at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Natalie Brown, Bela Fleck and the Flectones, Randy Newman, Klezmatics, Da Problem, Dixie Chicks, Dewey Cox, Radiohead, Sharon Thompson, Mothers of Invention, Barenaked Ladies, Barry Manilow, Black-eyed Peas, Dave Brubeck, Peter-Paul'n-Mary, and everyone else

Movies:

"Forbidden Planet"; the films of Jodoworsky; the films of Genet, most Coen brothers' films, David Lynch films, "the Jolson Story" (but not "Jolson Sings Again"), "the Eddie Cantor Story", any film with Gloria Neita Gifford in it, nothing that explores the theme: 2 girls, 1 cup

Television:

I don't own one of those "television" machines, but if I did, I'd probably just watch "Dancing with the Stars."

Books:

Latest books read: "The Indian Clerk", "My Name Is Red", "The Stupidest Angel", His Dark Materials trilogy (the original British edition), "Gate of the Sun"

Heroes:

I never watch it.

My Blog

Ambassador Olisleger of Cleves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeXITv-dwfk Thank you, Nin and Tonic~ith a Twist, for pointing this out to me!...
Posted by MathemActor on Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:22:00 PST

McCain

       Is it still considered experience if you've been too dumb to learn anything in so many years in the Senate?  What does he have except longevity?  I think...
Posted by MathemActor on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:44:00 PST

RenFest 2008

Wow, this is going to be one rockin' Maryland Renaissance Festival.  I return as Bertram Ripley, Village alchemist, with lots of plans for great explosions and all things transmutable.  And ...
Posted by MathemActor on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:12:00 PST

So, which is it?

Okay, I'm confused...This guy John McCain---Is he just really dumb or is he deliberately nasty and mean-spirited?  I tend to think it is the former, but perhaps his consistent stupidity...
Posted by MathemActor on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:20:00 PST

PICTURES FROM "POLISH JOKE" NOW POSTED

See them in my pictures!
Posted by MathemActor on Tue, 27 May 2008 09:45:00 PST

The Polish Open

featuring (clockwise from left) Brian Douglas, John Dickson, Jill Vanderweit, Fred Nelson, Mary Schmidt, and some unidentified extra. And, if you buy tickets online (no service fee!) at the theater&...
Posted by MathemActor on Sat, 24 May 2008 08:19:00 PST

Directing Gigs

My current directing jobs include: Gutenberg! the Musical   at the Landless Theatre Company, performing at the DCAC in Adams-Morgan, Washington, D.C., opening Thursday, March 13 for four wee...
Posted by MathemActor on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:10:00 PST

Preliminary Announcement of "Polish Joke"

Announcing the cast for "Polish Joke," David Ives’ hysterically funny and touching comedy to be produced at the Spotlighters Theater in Baltimore (and directed by yours truly!) from May 30 throu...
Posted by MathemActor on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:37:00 PST

A Workshop Id recommend

Last month, I took part in the excellent workshop program presented by  Shakespeare and Company of Lenox, Massachusetts.  This was their Intensive Weekend, which basically introduces the ove...
Posted by MathemActor on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:55:00 PST

Theatrical Plans for the coming season (as of November 2007) ...

After the Renaissance Festival, I'm taking a bit of time off from acting and directing.  I am still coordinating the Shakespeare in the Pub Nights for the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (Next one...
Posted by MathemActor on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:32:00 PST