The Actor's voice.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

I loved reading Sarah Hart's piece on T. Ryder Smith ("Thinking Man's Actor," Sept. '06) and his amazing work in the theatre. A personal story: When T. and I were performing in Closer at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, he was struggling with health issues, and I was fretting over my first trimester pregnancy. By the end of the run, I was over five months pregnant, and blocking had to be altered to accommodate my decreasing flexibility. T. was unwavering in his focus and never stopped exploring ways we could play our scenes. The argument at the end of Act 1 was extremely ...