In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «
community health
promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban
communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap,
as well
as larger items such
as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.
When he arrived, Tamayo spoke no English, but that didn't stop him from rapidly inserting himself into a number of creative
communities — one of Mexican intellectuals who hung out at the midtown bookstore run by poet Juan José Tablada; one of American artists who lived near Tamayo's apartment in the Village, including Stuart Davis, Reginald Marsh, Raphael and Moses Soyer, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi; and a circle of art dealers and impresarios including Walter Pach (who had organized the 1913 Armory Show), Carl Zigrosser of Weyhe Gallery, and future gallerist and Surrealist
promoter Julien Levy, then working
as an assistant to Zigrosser.
Professional Experience and Roles Wan na Be Now, LLC, Creator / Co-Producer / Actor / Co-Writer (Los Angeles, CA) Produced Living Luminaries on the Serious Business of Happiness ColeBeanBay Theatre, AEA Production Manager (Ste. Genevieve, MO) Managed Productions of Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof Sean Mulvihill Productions, Singer / Actor (Los Angeles, CA) Venetian Macau Resort, Featured Performer (Macau SAR, China) Great Plains Theatre, Actor (Abilene, KS) Role
as Albert in Bye, Bye Birdie US Concepts, Actor /
Promoter (Chicago, IL) Chesterfield
Community Theatre, Director (Chesterfield, MO) Directed the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged DramaRama Theatre Company — Regional AEA Theatre Tour, Actor (St. Louis, MO) Role
as Chillie Goat in Billy Goats Gruff: Tales from the Troll, White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland St. Charles Christmas Traditions, Actor (St. Charles, MO) Role
as Bob Wallace in White Christmas Revue Piwacket Theatre for Children, Actor (St. Louis, MO) Role
as Frankie in Snowman's Revenge Tuacahn Center for the Arts, Actor / Singer / Dancer (Ivins, UT) Role
as Noodler in Peter Pan and Understudy to Lt. Buzz Adams / Luther Billis in South Pacific Berendo Court Records, Producer / Songwriter / Musician (Los Angeles, CA) Hey Pooper EP RockPaperScissors (Punk Band), Guitar / Vocals (Los Angeles, CA) Worlds Away Films, Director's Assistant for Scheherezade (Los Angeles, CA) F / X, Casting Intern on The Shield (Los Angeles, CA) The Bomb / Teen Talk, Director / Producer / Writer (Chicago, IL)