Bo Metzler

Bo Metzler, has been involved in some form of theatre activity for over 40 years. He spent 6 years doing theatre at Kent State University ('68 - '74) as an actor, scenery builder, lighting tech, prop man, stage manager, publicity director, writer and director--on over 40 shows.

In 1974 he began a 32 year career in New York where he plied his trade on over 2 dozen Off-Off Broadway and Off Broadway shows and in over 20 different Broadway theaters on over 30 Broadway shows throughout the years. His work on Broadway has spanned the jurisdiction of 3 labor Unions on such shows as "La Cage aux Folles" "42nd Street," "Jekyll & Hyde," "Sweet Smell of Success," "The Lion King" and the three longest running Broadway shows: "Cats," "Phantom of the Opera" and "Les Miserables."

Mr. Metzler's work on Broadway as an actor, stage manager, dresser, electrician, carpenter and propman may very well be a singular professional achievement.

Mr. Metzler has also worked on various TV shows such as 5 years on Sesame Street (3 times earning Emmy Certificates for his contribution to Outstanding Lighting Direction).

He has traveled as a company manager, road manager, stage manager and actor on three tours throughout the U.S.; supervised the wardrobe and dressed Harry Belafonte in Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Zimbabwe as well as in Vegas, Atlantic City and other U.S. cities; designed for a Modern Dance Company which performed in Israel, South Korea, Japan and New York; worked as a stagehand on 15 rock concerts in Omaha; stage managed or crewed Tributes & Benefits at: Lincoln Center (MET & Avery Fisher), The Waldorf Astoria and Giants and Yankee Stadiums; worked at the CBS carpentry shop, E.L.T., La Mama ETC, the Orpheum, Theatre of the Open Eye, Lion Theatre, Harold Clurman Theatre, The Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, The New Victory Theatre, The Actors Studio, The Kennedy Center, The Spoletto Festival and Lincoln Center State Theatre and was a staff stage manager at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts on more than a dozen full productions.

Mr. Metzler has also worked in Dinner Theatre and Children's Theatre and even helped build houses for Habitat for Humanity. He is the author of a play about the Lincolns entitled "Abraham and Mary," in which he appeared as well as directed, and is working on a new book based on a journal chronicling his last two years on "The Lion King," tentatively titled "It's About Ethics, Stupid!"

He retired from theatre after a fall and neck injury in 2006 at the age of 55.

His book, "What We Do - Working in the Theatre" highlights all of his achievements as a handy source for theatre students and new theatre professionals. It explains all of the nuts and bolts of theatre and how everything fits together.

Check out the website: www.whatwedo-book.com

or order here: http://www.amazon.com/What-We-Do-Working-Theatre/dp/0741450046/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444879331&sr=1-1&keywords=%22What+We+Do+-+Working+in+the+Theatre%22