Ed Metzger

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Einstein: The Practical Bohemian

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Friday, March 6, 2009
7:30 pm 

 

Ed Metzger is an accomplished actor, writer and director. He has been seen in films, on television, the Broadway stage and has performed at theaters throughout the country. His latest film, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, premiers in December 2008 with Metzger in the role of Theodore Roosevelt.

Other films include "Watchmen" with Billy Crudup, "A Conversation with Einstein" starring Ed Metzger, "Pups" with Burt Reynolds, "Reflections In A Golden Eye" with Marlon Brando, "Car Wash" starring Danny DaVito and Sully Boyar, "Dog Day Afternoon" starring Al Pacino. You may also have caught a glimpse of him on television: in shows such as "Everybody Hates Chris", with Chris Rock, "ER," "Hill Street Blues," "Law & Order," "Latenight America," and "The Today Show".

Ed majored in medicine at The University of Alabama and The University of Florida until the acting bug bit him, and he moved to Los Angeles for drama training at the prominent Pasadena Playhouse. Drama study continued for many years in New York and Los Angeles with Lee Strasberg at the prestigious Actors Studio.

In 1978, Ed created the one-man show, "EINSTEIN: THE PRACTICAL BOHEMIAN," which first ran in Los Angeles, then went on to New York's Off-Broadway. With a shock of frizzy hair, holes in his sweater, sneakers without socks, Ed Metzger's brilliantly portrays the original absent-minded professor. Performed in two acts with an intermission, Metzger shows you Einstein, not just as the absent-minded professor, but also as a confused and troubled father, an ardent pacifist, philosopher and humorist.

With his continuing interest in historical visionaries, he wrote a 13-character play, "No Naked Heroes" about the great French sculptor, August Rodin. Additional writings include the screenplay, "Target: Crystalman." Books are, "Einstein Goes Hollywood," "Young Henry's Close Encounters With Doc Einstein," and "Einstein: Vanilla Is My Favorite." Metzger last appeared on the Canyon Sounds Stage in his other one-man play, “HEMINGWAY: ON THE EDGE”, portraying the man who lived a life other men only dream about.