Acting
Neil McDonald
Neil McDonald is an actor, director, substitute teacher and semi-retired from the printing industry in which he worked for over 20 years. Neil relocated to the St. Louis Missouri Metro area ready to begin anew, the theatrical life he put on hold for many years while he chose to maintain a career and his family, wife Kari and son Connor. Originally from the Sierras in California, he moved to Seattle after graduate school, and fate brought Kari, his wife and Neil together at a bus stop. Neil’s past credits include a workshop of five musicals in ten weeks with Tom Lehrer; was a founding member of Central California Conservatory Theatre where he performed in Damn Yankees! and Fiddler on the Roof; a cameo in the 1980’s cult film Radioactive Dreams; voice over work for Public Television in Southern California; multiple roles in plays and musicals including Guys and Dolls, Fiorello!, Pal Joey; Girl Crazy, Outward Bound, Witness for the Prosecution, Anything Goes; and directing projects including The Birthday Party, Lily the Felon’s Daughter, and Beyond the Box, an original one act first produced at Cal State Fullerton. Neil took on duel roles in the short film “To Inflict” the role of Mr. Berman which is the boss of the main character and Chelsea’s dad. (A Voiceover role on the telephone)
