NewsPHOTO EXCLUSIVE: A Day in the Life of "Oz" and Collision Star Craig "muMs" GrantCraig "muMs" Grant, known to TV audiences for his memorable performance as "Poet" on HBO's "Oz," is currently appearing in The Amoralists' world-premiere of Lyle Kessler's Collision. The actor-writer shares a recent day with Playbill.com.
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February 01, 2013
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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: A Day in the Life of "Oz" and Collision Star Craig "muMs" Grant
PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: A Day in the Life of "Oz" and Collision Star Craig "muMs" Grant
Craig "muMs" Grant, known to TV audiences for his memorable performance as "Poet" on HBO's "Oz," is currently appearing in The Amoralists' world-premiere of Lyle Kessler's Collision. The actor-writer shares a recent day with Playbill.com. Read the Playbill.com story.
25 PHOTOS
I wake up, I get ready and jump in my car.
Craig "muMs" Grant
Off to the theater from my home in the Bronx.
Craig "muMs" Grant
When I get there I have the customary cigarette with Judy Merrick, our stage manager.
Craig "muMs" Grant
Then off to fight call!!
Craig "muMs" Grant
Front row for one of Anna and Nick’s scenes as they check the lighting.
I look forward to seeing my cast mates with whom it is a huge pleasure to work.
Craig "muMs" Grant
Once we know the audience is seated the anticipation to "places" begins.
Craig "muMs" Grant
James getting ready to hit the stage.
Craig "muMs" Grant
I peek in the mirror at Anna for inspiration.
Craig "muMs" Grant
I spend a lot of time backstage.
Craig "muMs" Grant
My backstage setup.
Craig "muMs" Grant
I use my spare time to write…
Craig "muMs" Grant
…and sometimes take a peek at the play itself.
Craig "muMs" Grant
More peeking.
Craig "muMs" Grant
Leaving Rattlestick.
Craig "muMs" Grant
The cast has bonded nicely and we usually go out for a drink afterward.
Craig "muMs" Grant
Anna Banana at the bar!
Craig "muMs" Grant
Amoralist Byron, Anna and myself enjoy Anna’s ‘80s hair hat.
Craig "muMs" Grant
Michael Kessler, Anna and I. Very serious theater people.
Craig "muMs" Grant
I can never stay too long because I like to get home and have a little pistachio and tea party with my mother, who I take care of because she suffers from Alzheimer's disease.
Craig "muMs" Grant
I read the reviews to her. She encourages me to stay humble.
Craig "muMs" Grant
Then when she is finally asleep, I write.
Craig "muMs" Grant
Sometimes I write until 6 or 7 AM, after which I’ll make breakfast and then sleep. There are days when I don't wake until afternoon because I write overnight.
Craig "muMs" Grant
This is the picture of myself as Baby muMs, my mother and my father. That inspires me to write.
Craig "muMs" Grant
While working on Collision, I’m in the middle of a rewrite of my latest play, Loveness: I'll only love you once, which will be the read in the Labyrinth Theater Company’s upcoming Barn Series. When I wake my day starts all over again.
The Amoralists' world-premiere of Lyle Kessler's college-set drama Collision opened Jan. 22 Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
The cast features Michael Cullen (Bus Stop, Bug), Craig 'muMs' Grant ("Oz"), James Kautz (The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, The Hallway Trilogy), Nick Lawson (The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, Happy in the Poorhouse) and Anna Stromberg (The Bad and the Better, HotelMotel). Here's how the 90-minute work is billed: "In Collision, chance encounters prove calculated when three students, a professor, and a stranger come together in this incendiary drama. Set in a college dormitory somewhere in the heart of America, this band of incongruous intellectuals with hidden scars embarks on a dangerous course to create order out of chaos. Their united moral compass will guide them to the edge of the cliff…and beyond. What happens when all the wrong people meet at exactly the right time?"
