Larry J Evans:  

Life 2005, I retired from my teaching position at The Ohio State University and moved to join my family in the greater Minneapolis area. Up until then, I pursued my love of theatre as Associate Professor of Theatre at the Mansfield Campus of The Ohio State University, teaching and directing, and directed the summer theatre productions for The Renaissance Theatre in downtown Mansfield and also for Richland Academy of Arts. I also served as Artistic Director for the Mansfield Playhouse (1976-1980). And I directed productions in the Columbus, Ohio, area for Gallery Players, Prairie Players, Curtain Players, Association of Community Theatres, and Ohio Dominican College, as well as productions in Wausau, Wisconsin, for UW-Marathon Center (where I taught for 3 years) and Wausau Community Theatre. In 2005, after directing some 125 major productions, I decided it was time to enjoy my family who had all moved to Chaska, MN, in the greater Minneapolis area. My oldest daughter Laura was with a consulting firm.. She is married to David Snodgrass, a web designer and computer guru. Their first child, Anna Rochelle Snodgrass, was born in 2003. Their second child, Alexander Reed Snodgrass, was born on my birthday in 2005. Their third child, Andrew Ryan Snodgrass, was born in 2009. My younger daughter Layne lives in Chaska, MN, and works as a waitress, and she has two children: Lanna (born in 2011) and Artemis (born 2016).. I totally enjoyed helping with child care for my five grandchildren. My wife Linda retired from being a Learning Disability Specialist at Eden Prairie High School in a southwest suburb of Minneapolis, but she continued working as a substitute teacher. She is also a retired Deacon in the United Methodist Church and also continued to be active with the Girl Scouts. My wife, myself, and my two daughters all enjoy performing, and some of our greatest memories are working together on the same theatre productions, such as OLIVER! and SOUTH PACIFIC. We have all also been involved in various arts in our church lives--theatre, dance, music, etc. I acted professionally in the Twin Cities area, performing in the '06, '07, '08, and '09 productions of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Guthrie Theatre, DEMOCRACY at Park Square Theatre in St. Paul, FADING TO GREY for Diversity Productions which we performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City and the Mounds Theatre in St. Paul, the musical SUMMER OF '42 for Minneapolis Musical Theatre, ROBIN HOOD for Top Hat Theatre in the 2008 Minnesota F...Expand for more