Geo Hartley

Geo Hartley has been writing seriously since second grade when he wrote a play about God and Mary entitled God and Mary.  He played God.  The rest is a bunch of credits…but, don’t you need to read just a few more?    Hartley wrote, produced and directed the musical Twisted which received an Ovation Award nod within the last decade. The real genius involved was the composer and multiple Billboard award winner Max Baxley, now deceased–truly from frustration.  Hartley also over-wrote The Care and Custody of Barbara Moon which was largely a commercial success in LA and won a Robby Award for actor Eric Close lately of CBS’s Without A Trace. Lead actress Priscilla Barnes put the show and Hartley’s Theatre Geo on the map.    Theatre Geo…something to be proud of…was a small “waiver” theatre that, for many years, kept over 700 theatre professionals working when they wanted to.  And, it didn’t lose a dime…despite what the accountant says.  Hartley was also an acting coach for lots of talent, some of them you would know or, at least, recognize in a lineup.    Other things–an adjunct professor in the College of Theatre at USC; founder of “ReWrights (writing group), TGA (acting group);  Producing Fellow at AFI; producer of the film “Immediate Future”; Producing/Directing member of The Actors Studio West; co-founder of ASW Playwrighting Group; Board Member of Dorothy Lyman’s A Director’s Theatre in LA, Michael Shurtleff’s Night Flight Theatre in LA; Advisory Board Member of Theatre of Will Foundation in LA; acting coach to the deaf at D.E.F., Mark Taper Forum; Visiting Lecturer on acting and audition technique at East LA College; regular judge and panelist for Inner City Cultural Center and City of LA high school competition for actors; Writer of the too-regular column Sightlines in the early years of LA Stage magazine; author of Producing Virgins, a “how to” on producing your first (or second, if you’re brain dead) show–occasionally used in colleges, business-of-theatre conferences and theatre festivals; Director and Lecturer at Telluride Theatre Festival in Colorado; Director and/or Producer of 168 musicals and plays–long, short, medium and wavy.  Seriously, who in theatre doesn’t love wavy?

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