Erik Pratt

Actor

After 108 hours of aerospace engineering study, Erik J Pratt luckily realized he could make a semblance of a living on the stage. He then decided to enroll in theater program at the University of Missouri--Kansas City, making his mother proud. Since that happy day in 1994, he has had the opportunity to perform in regional theaters, schools, and festivals in 45 states and the District of Columbia; the other 5 states and Puerto Rico have been warned.

An accomplished juggler, clown and stilt walker, Erik has written and performed circus arts shows for theaters and Renaissance Festivals from Kansas City to Orlando. In 2004, he was fortunate to have had the opportunity to showcase these variety arts talents for the Bering Strait School District in Alaska, where he was excited to learned a lot from the Eskimo students who took his classes. When not performing, Erik has been sighted teaching Shakespeare and Stage Combat for Theatre of the Imagination in Kansas City, Missouri.

While he calls Kansas City home, Erik hasn't spent a lot of time there in recent memory. Most of the past three years have seen him on the road with national tours of The Diary of Anne Frank, The Boston Tea Party, and Poetry Alive!. He is very happy to be entering his second season with Poetry Alive!. There are few other theater companies that make such unique demands of craft and offer up equally unique lessons to actors.

Erik's favorite poems include On Turning Ten, by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins; The Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll; and Connections, by Eric Adler.