playwright actor and i'm not going to finish it i'm good at you going to have to stay you have to stay with me because you know what we do on the dance of joy show we take it down with three deep breaths i you ready inhale last one in hell exhale how do you feel i know i feel great well without further ado i want to introduce to you jack fry jack thank you for being on the dr joy show delighted excited and ready to get you all in award winning first of all this is a passion to act right sure you are an award winning playwright celebrating one hundred years in relativity right but you know i want to actually talk about you awards just just for the viewers jack fry has achieved several distinctions check  einstein was the pick of the friend and encore when are from two thousand and sixteen hollywood international fringe festival number two einstein was selected as top ten shows to see at the new at the two thousand and sixteen new york fringe festival and it was a sold out run do you know what that means that means every single performance he did it was sold out standing room only number three jack fry have been selected as the best actor of the london friends festival ok so you've got some international distinctions for his parts portrayal of albert einstein by the london press in ontario and number four i mean he's got many more but i'm only going to talk to you about this last one jack also received an endorsement from steven call there from the called their report for his performance in mr fry jack thank you you're welcome thank you for me so now what inspired you to be an actor well i think it was as a little kid i really believe that that type of profession you don't pick it sort of pic me so i don't really say that i want to be one i just say that i am one but i would inspire admits initially we're watching some of those old musicals as a kid like all of her of those long so how old were you oh well i saw the reruns maybe fifteen i'm not talking about his first release ok talking about the the rewrite as you'd see all the time on late night t so through your training so let's say you started maybe when you were fifteen so you were in high school so did you start your training there and what kind of training what your technique well i started out as a  comedy troupe i was a magician the drill quest and juggler my first gig was actually first mike brill paying gig was being a ventriloquist for valley fair music park and  teachers are teaching at the time but my parents would not let me major in acting or drama or theater so why not well they just thought it was they're going to i was lucky enough for them to the weave in broadcast journalism you also speak fluent spanish you also you are still a credential teacher out in los angeles so you we had all of that in and then you added sprinkle your passion and you put it on stage they it fascinating when you're a teacher you're usually sort of naive in new to the game and you really want to make a difference in all these kids lives and you're very passionate and before you get sort of become a hardened veteran and i the secretary of education and obama and i've had a lot a lot of fun with it it's it's sort of my bread and butter show and so i've been doing  their things that they created in class it's really about relationship with two students and how we effected each other's lives and it really focuses on their story and interweaves our story together  just before he wins the nobel prize is sort of him at his peak and while people are trying to he's up against them and people trying to steal his theories are messy divorce with this with his wife who was the heart of the shows the relationship with this ten year old son and anti semitism of course i failed it clips of her failed eclipse huge scientific backlash thoughts of suicide and meanwhile he comes up with a a theory is that it took three years for you to create einstein you know i sort of realize when you're doing a biography of somebody else that really takes a lifetime to study someone's life going but i did three i still had about a year and a half of going ok i know what story i want to tell and then another year and half of getting my first draft my first draft was like eighty pages with like one thousand characters it was just way over the top so i kind and cut the page count in half and kept the characters in half and simplify that and so i i have what i have now i usually do a q and a after the show just so i don't it's i think it's interesting for the audience but i only use an iceberg tip of my show and underneath is really all the research i did so i used by the tenth of my my research what a show gave you the impetus to do  and and yes that's part of a young i have two parts that's part of a and then part two is why did you want to play the role of einstein well part of why i wanted to well how i got into it was that i've always been interested in metaphysics and by that i mean is p astral plane different dimensions things that can pretty much be proven physics one of his american papers right you know that at the time but i went in i wanted to see what einstein thought of these what did he think about metaphysics and all that and as i was researching it i really couldn't find a lot i found firm out on spiritualism because during that time in the twenty's with that heyday and i came across this story and i sort of went wow i really have to tell this story because it's a very inspirational in her story that i think a lot of people can identify with wow i can't i can't wait to actually see it now would you be able to tell me what your favorite part is in man are so many parts in it i don't know if i really have the hope thing is my favorite part i i love doing it but what he has some fun you know a lot of people don't funny comments about marriage so i thought one of his comments was marriage is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting based on an incident all their age is dangerous women marry men hoping that they will change but the men and a woman hoping they would not so each is disappointed and sex sex is the price i would say i'm kind of old school first of all the people today i love johnny depp i think he can play little miss muffet if you want to oh he's he is a great actor i got to me i like the actors that that  time was the hop he dropped from one theory to go down to do another theater is that you know people would recognize him from one thing to another so he put on some things you so that you have to actually look at the program to recognize that there are some other really good charismatic actors that are out there that i like you know i like jamie foxx i think he does i do i think he does a lot of great stuff that's great what was the hardest role you've ever played well i would say the hardest role is doing a one person show you're basically acting out the whole film in front of everybody your acting out everything is like doing a whole film two and a half hours to write well if you come now if you combined on the each show is about eighty minutes but a long time yeah i would say that is the most challenging because it is no stop you've got to remember all the lines you've got to remember where that character is at that time so yeah it was the it is the real deal is very different than television i know that i had a short stint on off broadway when i did a production in k c thirty years later and i played actually for roles plus myself so knowing all of the lines in the queues when to come in changing you have to step into character and we could talk about that later but what was what has been the biggest challenge in your career to have the right emotion for the right time at least in stage you're building up to these emotions film has its challenges you've got to be there at that emotional section no matter how what order they shoot it  there's a lot of weight around time and then you get your you get your five minutes finally you've got you've got it you've got a zone and right there but this is this is a non stage is a nonstop process and it not only that cliff was also one of my favorites said you think about film is that you know what you get that performance in the can you don't have to repeat it right but here in the theater you have to ok can i get there like i did the other night here and you've got to gear yourself up every time you get out there because every performance is brand new and even if it's brand new for your audience even though they've seen it multiple times that means they get  people there that have seen it multiple times and you as an actor have to treat it as a brand new experience you so you have that bring it on one hundred percent each in every performance yet is a challenge how do you prepare your there's you have all kinds of things you know there's a noise out there all kinds of noise so so you do meditation so you know what i want you to share your regime how do you keep yourself in shape because doing that one man show they can take a toll on you that's a that's a good question you know i i have a students that i teach this process to and and it's not a bubble bath and certainly as i tell them i have to there treadmill for a half hour so i can i can keep keep the body going and then it's hard to keep keep placidly peaceful and all the noise and haste that's going on so it's important to take some time out to save yourself and even if it's just five minutes a day and i have something i try to do before i go on stage and out he would have us all repeat i am who i am and it's good to be me well i can't change because you know i'm a little different and i say i am who i am because it's great to be me and saying that gives you the confidence before you go on stage before you meet someone new and it just stops jumpstart your day yeah so your hobbies are i did a little research you you mentioned tennis i yeah i i love tennis i'm huge i need a tennis intervention i mean i love to go out tennis anytime i can i you know i'm surprised i didn't bring my racquet ease of america with me when i'm on the road but i usually  try to bring it with me if i can remember so teaching which a favorite what's your favorite subject to teach probably american history i think we have a really unique history that's different than in european history and it's i mean every history is unique as its own special right but this particular fascinates me and how this whole country came to being you know all that good and bad but it's still i find that fascinating and you say you jews oh yes it is a health program so i figured i'd give one of my my i'm a huge juice here i try to have a juice fresh juice every day i've gone through like ten juicers you i bought mine mine it was you know built as a model number from the seventy's but they'll even tell you it's got a lifetime warranty i'll tell you that you know had those jews just as good as the ones that brand one sixteen ounce fresh squeezed carrot apple spinach i have to have the afterword down i have to tell you about a place here in princeton that you will love and i'm going  trails up there that i really enjoy so you're into the time if you're into the mountain biking you know the hardest working muscle in the body is the heart so you have a lot of cardio and it helps keep your mind clear is what i say right wow so they owe what your goal for twenty seventeen well my goal is to inspire and to educate educate him in a sense with with my shows that i do and to to keep you know they keep spreading the word you know far as i have performance goes and in teaching as well you know because i also have a fully credential teacher i am not a full time teacher is like i used to be but i still i still substitute and i'm still connected with the schools that i go to which is great and i go to a lot of the same schools get the to work hard but you know even though you might not be teaching in the classroom when you're on stage and you're doing einstein and you're doing mr fry you're teaching you'll see you'll see th show that i do i've got really cool three dimensional graphics in it and you will get an idea armchair idea of relativity and you'll be able to talk about it but you also be able to see you know what he there i would say i mean about the cliche i can hang in there but that's kind of what you have to do move it on it and if you really if you really feel that you're you're like i say i think the profession chooses you in a sense  but if you feel that way and if you feel strongly towards it keep doing it and if it and also if it comes to the point you not enjoying it anymore it's not fun maybe it's time for something else oh yeah you know you have to be passionate to be on stage to be on television that passion has to be there or for whatever reason for whatever it is the passion should be there it's already have what exactly whatever it is and therefore if it's it's not acting have everyone has i think everyone's great and high and starring in something in their life they just try to find it they have to find it and sometimes they don't have the time people say oh well i don't know how to find my passion my recommendation would be sit still or be still and let it come to you and your passion is what you would do day in day out whether there's a paycheck or not and as long as you're having a lot of fun yeah so you're performing play dot com you can find the schedule and you can contact me too if you like and how can we contact you go to the contact page and they're on their  jack i want to thank you for getting on the data joy show and i want you to break a leg i will write your performance tomorrow and i will be there in the audience i can't wait to see that i can't wait to be there ok you heard it einstein celebrating one hundred years a relativity jack fry award winning actor playwright credential teacher came all the way from los