Jefferson Mays
Jefferson Mays
Jefferson Maysis an American film, stage and television actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth8 June 1965
CountryUnited States of America
account costume fondness last playing wandering wearing yard
There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices.
carpet musical
A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.
literature reluctant sort
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.
people velcro
I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.
fully however
I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.
enjoy people surprised wanna
I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.