Page 1 of 1

Hi Steve,

Thanks for being part of this. Kitsap Creative is a zine-style publication for and about the people making things happen creatively in this county, artists, makers, directors, musicians, builders of all kinds.

These questions are yours. Take as much or as little space as you need. There are no wrong answers, just your story in your words.

We'll share a draft with you before anything goes live.

Your name

Your email address

1. You grew up in North Dakota, worked construction, spent your twenties in Alaska, and then landed on Bainbridge in 1979 and somehow became an actor, a photographer, a filmmaker, and the founding president of a theatre company. That is not a career path, it is a series of doors you kept walking through. What were you chasing across all of it?

2. Those Alaska years seem to sit near the root of a lot of this. What was that creative community like, and what did it give you that you carried south to Bainbridge?

3. You are a street photographer as much as anything else, watching and waiting for people in unguarded moments. What are you looking for when you raise the camera? How do you know the picture is there?

4. Another Man's Treasure grew out of three years of footage from the Bainbridge Rotary Auction, that one-day event people call the world's largest rummage sale. What made a community fundraiser worth a documentary, and what did you find in it that surprised you?

5. In A Portrait of Louise you turned the camera on Louise Mills, and in Another Man's Treasure on the Rotary Auction. You have spent years documenting Bainbridge, its people and its rituals. Why this place, over and over? What are you trying to hold onto?

6. You were the founding president of Island Theatre in 1994, born out of that now-legendary dinner where the choice was fifty dollars apiece or start a theatre company. What made you bet on the company, and what did you want it to be that Bainbridge did not already have?

7. You wear a lot of hats at the Ten-Minute Play Festival, you produce, you direct one of the plays, you have stepped in as an actor when needed. What keeps pulling you back into all those roles at once? And with the festival running August 20 to 22, what should audiences expect from this year’s ten plays?

8. Actor, photographer, designer, director, videographer, you have never picked one lane. Do those disciplines feed each other, or are they separate appetites? Does the photographer’s eye change how you direct, or the actor’s instinct change how you shoot?

9. You have been an Island Treasure since 2019 and you have watched Bainbridge change across more than four decades. What does it mean to you to still be making work here, in this community, at this point in your life?

10. Is there anything we have not asked that you would like to talk about, about the work, the island, or what is next? The floor is yours.