Ned Donovan - Ithaca ‘12

Hey everyone!

Time to break radio silence after a full summer of stuff, I just turned my mind off of things that I usually work on so this website took a hit for the last couple months, but I am back, and ready to get going again!  Summer for me was great, I was here in Ithaca living in my new house!  If ever you’re in Ithaca, shoot me a line and hopefully we can meet up, I probably have a couch you can crash on.  First I started working for the new Panera Bread here in Ithaca, I was the opener for the Drive-Thru here, and will still be doing that job on tuesdays and thursdays, so come by and say hi sometime!  I went home for a couple days to choreograph the fights for Encore at Point Sebago on Lake Sebago for their Pirate Show.  That was a blast, I customized some pirate cutlass’ for them and took them over and work with Jack and Tim to get their final fight together.

Back in Ithaca, I played Macduff in a production of “Macbeth” with the Ithaca Shakespeare Co. which was very well received.  It was a “pay what you can” outdoor production, and we consistently had about 200 people in the audience.

Hey everyone,

This past weekend I played Billy/Dr. Horrible in an IC Underground production of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long blog. We got pictures back from the tech rehearsal and I thought I’d post them. The cast was as follows:

Billy/Dr. Horrible - Ned Donovan
Penny - Shaylyn Gibson
Captain Hammer - Vincent Whitney
Moist - Charlie Forray
Bad Horse Trio - Cy Bodnar, Tom Aroune, Sam Hughes
Groupies - Arianna Davis, Ben Shipley, Rebekah Weagraff
Newsman - Cy Bodnar
Newswoman - Alyssa Rivera
Moving Guys - Tom Aroune, Sam Hughes
Mayor - Charlie Forray

Enjoy the pictures!

~Ned

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This is a sadder post to pay homage to a great man.  My senior year in high school I performed in a show called “Broadway at Good Theater” at Good Theater in Portland Maine.  I sang “Muddy Water” from Big River with a man named George Merritt.  George passed away at the age of 67 on February 15th.  I found out on Friday the 19th when I went to see The Importance of Being Ernest at Good Theater.  I remarked to Brian Allen (the Artistic Director) that I still had George’s name on my resumé and he quietly asked me if I was aware if George had passed away.

I was stunned to say the least.  You see I only knew him for a total of about 4 days, but we had so much fun singing that song, and we talked at great lengths backstage, and afterwards George immediately emailed me to keep in touch.  He was like that, he was always reaching out.  His obituary can be found here and it talks about many of his charitable activities.  He sent me an email or a message on facebook/linkedin every couple months or so to see what I’d been doing, and to update me on what he and his wife had been doing.

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So this might be my second post in Anger and Hate, however I chose not to call it that because unlike Fred Phelps, the following recipient at least deserves open discourse.  In Allentown, PA (where my father is currently the Vice-President of the City Council) there is a man named Bill Villa.  I will not get into the man’s history except to say that it is truly tragic, and the loss of a daughter is awful, as my family (although I was not born yet) can tell you.  I don’t know much about the man because most of the information I have about him comes from his truly vicious blog postings, or from people who seem to hate him, and therefore speak about him in hyperbole and with venom. In a recent post he threatened to go after my father with “Both Barrels” which in context means that he may or may not use the legal system to attack him, but I believe the wording is very specific and is a very thinly disguised threat of harm. So on that post I have posted a comment with my thoughts on his actions. Because I hear that he has a tendency to rewrite, or not accept comments he does not like (pardon me Mr.