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Remembering director David Wheeler

  January 22, 2012

Actor Richard McElvain recalls: “He was a stealth director, trapping you into doing honest work. In early rehearsals he would say little or nothing to you, forcing you to come up with a character based on your own instincts. Then he would ambush you, taking your choices, your own instincts about the character, by the lapels and raising them to levels of risk you were too sheepish to dare on your own.’’

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