Jerry McDonnell is a writer, actor, retired wilderness and bear viewing guide and taught school in native villages of Alaska. He continues to spend much of the summer in the bush of Alaska or the Yukon Territory where the stage is huge and the audience small. Speaking in the first person: My published writings are fiction and journalism (the latter of which Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. termed, Noise). Plays, the most difficult form, continue to be a challenge. I have a two act, a wonderful two act, a two person cast two act (one old guy, one young guy, only one F word strategically placed) which has had a reading, received well but alas, continues to search for a live production. My stage time for the past 50 years plus has been with my feet on the boards finding the lights and a couple of films on the ole resume. Look for me at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska. I may have a one act in this year, 2009, and I'm a reader at same. My favorite geographic locations are wilderness trails with more bears than people and the Anchorage Public Library and the Anchorage Museum of Art and Natural History. Salmon is the main course. Keep your lines tight.