Saturday, October 29, 2011

Meet Associate Producer LARRY JAY TISH

Larry Jay Tish is an actor, writer, director, producer. improv performer, and educator. Larry’s stage credits include The Black-Jew Dialogues, which he co-wrote and stars in with Ron Jones. The Black-Jew Dialogues premiered at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in ’06 and continues to tour the US, Canada, and the UK. Other stage credits include his one-man-show Everything Hurts, Gene in Sideman, Tom in Dinner With Friends, Billy in The House of Blue Leaves, The Prospector in The Madwoman of Chaillot, numerous roles in Hard Times, and Jumpin' Jack Flash in Gravity Rules at the Boston Museum of Science Planetarium. Larry also performed in Anger Box at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland in ‘04. He is a founding member of StageCoach Improv, and has facilitated workshops and performances for 93.7 Mike FM, Harvard Business School, Reebok, The American Bar Association, Greenberg Traurig Law, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Segue Software (now Borland), MediMedia, The International Academy of Collaboration Professionals (IACP), The New Law Center, among others. Larry was a freelance copywriter for over ten years in Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston, and was Senior Copywriter at the Larkin Group in Newton. 

His film credits include Harry Toland in Dangerous Crosswinds, the host of two travel DVD’s on Amsterdam, and Question Freedom. He played Dr. Warren in the BBC production of Brothers At War, The Ponytail Man in Luigi Films' Cowboys and Indians, and Northern Lights Production Voices From Andersonville, a documentary installation at the National Museum in Washington DC. Larry is co-creator, writer, and co-star (with Jeff Vachon) of the cable sketch comedy show Under The Nut. He currently plays Professor Fritz on The New England Patriots’ Sunday morning TV program “Totally Patriots.” Larry's principal roles in TV commercials include The Greater Hartford Open, ESPN Outdoor Games, The Maine Lottery, Brotherhood Credit Union, and Blue Cross Blue Shield Anthem. His voice over work includes radio commercials for Fleet Bank, COMCAST, and Garelick Farms, and he played CEO Jack White in a training graphic novel for The Monitor Group. Larry was a Standardized Patient Educator for Harvard, Tufts, and UMASS medical schools. He lives in Cambridge, MA, with his wife Robin, daughter Ana, and their dog Cheska.

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