Just over a week ago I went back to my home town of Ottawa Ill. for a number of reasons. One of which was to lend a helping hand or in my case a camera and eye to a old friend. This friend Kim “Howard” Johnson and his long time friend Walt Willey of ABC’s All My Children who is from Ottawa too and sorry to say no relation, restarted the Community Theater in Ottawa with the production of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple”.
Others that helped out that where from Ottawa are,
Travis Hagenbuch (Lighting Design) who is currently a Associate Designer with Full Flood Inc. in LA. with projects such as the The Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards.
Adam Rowe (Set Designer) is currently the art director for the Game Show Network’s live variety show the Big Saturday Night
The Cast was made up of mostly local talent from Ottawa and Streator with the exception of Jill Larson who is also on All My Children with Walt.
Now Ottawa is not a large town less than 20,000 but a great place to grow up I am proud of the fact that I could help out the area with my talents and to give back to the place I called home.