I had a very unique opportunity this month. I played the head of the North West Company 200 years ago (William McGillivray) next to the current CEO now (Edward Kennedy). The concept was a lot of fun, comparing the challenges and similarities of the company past and present.

As a challenge to me, this was one of those incidents that occurred simply because of who you know. I walked into the local Neighbourhood Cafe in Wolseley and met an actor acquaintance who was doing a tour of his music to Ontario and couldn’t make a gig. He showed me the script. I saw the challenge and told him I was interested. The next day I was hired. I performed the scene with Edward Kennedy on Sept. 24th to a group of young business owners.

The challenge: 5 full monologues worth of dialogue in 4 days!!!!

If someone had asked me to do this a year ago I wouldn’t have been able to pull it off. But with all the work I’ve been doing such as the workshops I’ve been teaching and the intense script work in LA I can safely say, that the mind is a muscle that has stretched in such a way that I can now intensely memorize 5 monologues in 4 days, add technique, apply a full Scottish accent and add my personal stamp of humour.

The crowd had a lot of fun and the North West Company has in fact asked me to do it again on Oct. 4th. Needless to say, I’m elated. This is just one of those examples where time, networking, opportunity and luck meet (Or is it divine intervention?). I love the Neighbourhood Cafe.

And thanks Tom.