Dr. Jamey Hecht, Porter Emeritus

Jamey Hecht is a writer who acts. His four books to date include an elegy for President Kennedy called Limousine, MidnightBlue: Fifty Frames From the Zapruder Film (Red Hen Press, 2009) and a translation of Sophocles’ Three Theban Plays (Wordsworth Classics, 2004). In 2011 (our 5th season), the Porters produced Hecht’s translation of Sophocles’ Oedipus the Tyrant, a world premiere directed by Thomas Bigley and starring Charles Pasternak as Oedipus, Thomas Bigley as Creon, and Kate O’Toole as Jocasta. In the Summer of 2013, the Porters produced Jamey’s 1-man show Limousine, MidnightBlue, directed by Charles Pasternak. Jamey’s acting credits with the Porters include: Kent in King Lear, Polonius in Hamlet, John of Gaunt & Bishop of Carlyle in Richard II, Canterbury & King of France in Henry V, Teiresias & Shepherd in Oedipus the Tyrant, and various roles in Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Comedy Of Errors, and Measure For Measure.