You're listening to D Beach Sessions.

We're out on the West Coast, and we are with someone who's been a TV sitcom star.

You were a bit of a child prodigy, practically born on off-Broadway, right? Born off-Broadway?

Now that you mention it, yes. I've rarely been referred to as a prodigy. I tend to think of like

Mozart. That's my level of prodigy. Not quite at Mozart just just yet. Fair enough. But knew you were

going to be on my way. John Pryor is what I should have said. I'm sorry, I haven't actually said

your name. There we go. Because you objected immediately the prodigy. But you were going to be

an actor from the very beginning. Yes. You had no choice. I had no choice. Yeah, no.

My parents were performers.

My mother's also a writer and composer.

And so I grew up kind of backstage and in it, you know.

I actually had a weird thing recently.

You're a paid professional.

I'm going to put the microphone in front of you.

Don't make love to the microphone.

Okay.

So I recently had an odd situation where a friend of mine recommended a memoir of an

kind of an avant-garde producer from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, a guy named Albert Poland.

It's called Stages is the memoir.

And he said, you've got to read this because your parents are all over it.

I was like, I'm sorry?

And it turns out my parents, obviously being very active in off-Broadway and some amount of avant-garde stuff at the time.

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