Walt Shepperd is a veteran of Central New York's political scuffle, having covered government and politics in Syracuse for more than four decades before being asked for press credentials.
He is the Senior Editor of the City Eagle and the Mayor of Montgomery Street in downtown Syracuse.
Shepperd is also the producer of the The Media Unit, Central New York national award winning teen performance and production troupe.
Samadee is his alter ego. At least that's the rumor.
Sean McLeod calls the Media Unit the Everything Club. “If you can make it through the Media Unit,” he says, “you can do everything.” Well, not everything, maybe, but certainly most of the skill sets needed to carve out a career in the worlds of screen or stage. Since it was founded in 1976, almost 80 percent of those who have made it through the Media Unit are pursuing careers in those fields. Including Sean McLeod, President of the New York Institute for Dance and Education, which he founded...
TAGS: media unit,syracuse,auditions,television broadcast,teens,Syracuse University, LeMoyne College and Onondaga Community College,Westcott Cultural FestivalRough Times Live
That's Lorca my flower and Cabot her dear - from Walt Shepperd at the Fair 2009.
It’s only nostalgia at the Great New York State Fair, according to Thom Green, unless it’s your first time. Then it’s big and scary and amazing. After that, it’s all nostalgia. When my daughter Lorca called from her home in Brooklyn to say she was coming up for a Sunday at the Fair to get a dose of nostalgia, I had to chart a mental navigation back 36 years to the first time we went. She was four and we took the bus. It was the year I first took her to Jesus Christ Superstar at Salt City Playhouse. Four years later on our annual visit to Joe and Pat Lotito’s now closed theater for that show she said, “If I auditioned next year as a palm waver and was in the show every year, by the time I got to high school I could get the part I wanted.”
TAGS: Great New York State Fair,Thom Green,Nostalgia,Lorca Shepperd,Jesus Christ Superstar at Salt City Playhouse,Syracuse,cows,beet pulp and molasses,Walt shepperd
Samadee sat with the Has Been and the Wannabe, looking out the big front window in World, which had celebrated a soft opening the night before on the Southside of Hanover Square. They watched the fountain and the skateboarders, recalling warm nights when the weather was good at tables outside with burgers from Quigley’s wagon and contented crowds of very different people who just got along.
The three had gone two seasons of warm nights without the tables or the World, and they were told the tables would not be out again until next summer, due to the lateness into the warm time and the cost and process of getting the proper permit. But the view from the proper side of the Square and a decade worth of nostalgia was enough...
TAGS: Samadee,Has Been,Wannabe,World hanover square,syracuse,mayoral race syracuse,GOP syracuse,Great New York State Fair,walt sehpperd,senior editor city eagle,MDA,Downtown Committee
