Charles Richmond:  

Life My life has been a series of a love affairs. My love of theatre began at 11 when I acted in a play in Carmel and the one with music began at 12. At 15, I loved designing sound at a community theatre and worked on the Monterey Jazz, Folk and Pop Festivals over the next two years. A trip to Europe and a stay in Vienna at 17 engendered a love of opera and musical theatre and travelling and I love being friends with the former technical director of the Vienna State Opera and his son, who is the resident sound engineer at the Vienna Folks Opera. I fell in love with my first professional sound design position in January 1970 at the American Conservatory Theatre after studying engineering at UC Berkeley and was resident Sound Designer at ACT for the '70 through '72 seasons. I designed sound for over 50 productions at various theatres in North America over the next few years. I fell in love with Vancouver, Canada at 19 and in love at first sight with my life partner, Marilyn Williams (Will) one month after moving there and we both fell in love with our wonderful kids, with whom we have always had super relationships and who are a couple of the greatest people in the world. Our daughter, Thea, is married to Mike Dowler, who completely coincidentally is the nephew of one of the very first people I met in Vancouver, musician Tom Northcott. Our son, Gareth is an honours history student at Concordia University in Montreal as well as a gourmet chef. Teaming up with Will also fulfilled my childhood love fantasy of being with someone like Hayley Mills ever since I shadowed her while they filmed The Parent Trap in Monterey in 1961. They really aren't that similar in appearance but they are both English and have enough similarities to trigger some quite basic responses! This revelation was made obvious after reading the bio of another Monterey High friend here (Craig Thompson) who also revealed his attraction to Hayley Mills and we both acknowledge her loomin...Expand for more