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After a ten year in stint in Los Angeles acting professionally in a myriad of films, commercials and performing in live theatre, Michael Carrasco is very comfortable doing community theatre in Central Utah.
The Spanish Fork native is currently directing and playing the part of the Beast in the Payson Community Theatre production of "Beauty and the Beast" which begins an eight day run at Payson High School the last week in August.
"Film is not fun," he says. "It's a job
a business."
Carrasco did OK in the Southland. With independent film companies, he appeared in several smaller budget films. Carrasco also found work doing TV commercials.
Leads in "Macbeth" and the "Elephant Man" were among his credits while associated with several theatre groups in the Pasadena-Hollywood areas.
Live theatre is his first love and in 1997 a director-friend, Anna Murdock convinced him to take the part of Joseph in the PCT production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."
"Payson Community Theatre was considered the premier company in Central Utah and I had played in Joseph for nine months while with the Glendale Center Theatre. So I took the part and left LA."
In 2000, after a decade of plying his trade in California, Carrasco permanently moved back to Utah |
