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Welcome to my website!
My name is Johnny. I'm an actor, director,
teacher and writer. On my home page here I have listed four solo
shows that I can perform at your school, theater,
prison, or other venue. Contact me if you are interested.
I am currently directing a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at
Two Rivers Correctional Institution, near Umatilla, Oregon. There
will be two public performances of the play on
Saturdays: September 25th, and October 2nd.
(For more on the things I
do in prison,
see www.openheartsopenminds.net.)
NEXT
PERFORMANCE!:
INFIDEL
Johnny Stallings reads Robert G.
Ingersoll
Hipbone
Studio
1847 E. Burnside
Saturday, August 14, at 8 pm
benefit for Midsummer Night's Dream in Prison
a film by Bushral Azzouz
For reservations, call: 503-347-6869
Ingersoll was an American freethinker and
agnostic, much admired by Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, at whose grave
he gave the funeral oration. Eloquent, brilliant, funny, ferocious and
compassionate---if you are not familiar with his work, you are in for a
treat.
I hope to see you there!
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 I
premiered this show in June of 2005 at Brooklyn Bay, in Portland,
Oregon. I have subsequently performed it in prison, in theaters, high
schools and colleges around the Northwest. Also at the Teatro
Tanque in Guanajuato, Mexico! If you are teaching Hamlet
and would like to bring this hour-and-a-half long show to your school,
please contact me. (It's also possible for me to do an hour-long
version.) If you would like me
to bring this show to your theater, prison or other venue,
please call me at 503-347-6869 or email me at stallingsjohnny@gmail.com .
In 2008, I directed a
production of Hamlet at
Two Rivers Correctional Institution, near Umatilla, Oregon. The
six-month rehearsal period
began March 12, 2008. There were six performances. Two performances, on
October 7, 2008, were open to the general public. The inmate-actors
were given a standing ovation. It was the first time that inmates at an
Oregon prison performed a play by Shakespeare.
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 I
first performed my solo version of King Lear in the Spring of
1978, thanks to a CETA grant from the Metropolitan Arts Commission
of Portland. Keith Scales directed me. Since then I have performed it
in schools, theaters, and prisons, mostly around the Northwest,
but also at the Cornelia Connelly Theater in New York. If you
would like me to bring this show to your school, theater,
prison or other venue, please call me at 503-347-6869 or email me
at stallingsjohnny@gmail.com
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Silence
is a piece about meditation and spiritual search. If you or your
group are interested in these topics, contact me about giving a
performance. Call me at
503-347-6869 or email me at stallingsjohnny@gmail.com
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Song of Myself may be the
most
exhilarating first-hand account in the world's literature of the
mystic's experience of the sacredness of everyone and everything.
If you would like to arrange for a performance at a school, theater,
prison, or other venue, please call me at 503-347-6869, or
email me at stallingsjohnny@gmail.com
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