Well, what do you say when you realize
that you're reading the words of people that you haven't seen or talked
to in well over forty years? Wow! Deep breath and let me bring you up to
date....I'm Darrel Adleman, class of '60. I am an actor and a playwright
living in New York. I was in Marysville from the fourth grade thru my senior
year in high school. And although, I transfered over to Yuba City High
for my junior and senior years, I always regarded myself as a Marysville
student. After graduation, I left the area to attend Sacramento State and
when that didnt work out, I moved to San Francisco and spent time in retailing
and the railroad...but wait...this wasnt what life was suppose to be about...it
was the sixties, right???...So I just started to hang out....I began doing
night club comedy...did alot of gigs in clubs with the Grateful Dead and
Jefferson Airplane...it was a great time and SF was truly magic...also
traveled back and forth to LA. In '67, things were changing and I headed
for New York City...it was still the movement and energy was high...I
got involved in theatre, since acting was more of a craft and more serious
than working the clubs...I studied at HB Studio for five years with people
like Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof... I also did off broadway theatre
and whatever film work I could get...what a time!...met my beautiful wife
Connie there and we have been married for 31 years....She is a nursing
educator and writer and a registered Louise Hay trainer...our mutual work
has always strengthened our relationship...we were in NYC for ten years
and then out in LA for ll...then back to NYC for 8 and for the last three
years, we have lived up state on a lake in Seneca Falls, NY..we both wanted
to devote time to our writing...we've also begun to facilitate group dynamic
workshops with various corporations in the area...and next year, its back
to NYC and the opening of my play...Hey, life is great and although we
have all had many ups and many downs, its the love of it that keeps us
going...I like to remember that we are all spirit sharing a human experience....Peace,
Darrel Adleman