George Saulnier knew he wanted to be an actor when he was knee-high to a footlight. Smart, sensitive, and unswayable by peer pressure into macho posturing he became a constant bully target and outsider at a young age.
But his empathy, intelligence and creativity found a home in his high school theater and he’s been treading the boards ever since.
He studied at Trinity Rep Conservatory in Rhode Island and Emerson College in Boston
Has performed with the Foothills Theatre, the Greater Boston Stage Company and Chamber Theater Productions for which he played Blaise Pascal in a national touring, math-centric children’s show called Eureka.
He played Uncle Vanya for the Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco and was most recently enjoyed in Pittsburgh as Chillingworth in Prime Stage Theatre’s production of The Scarlet Letter.
I’ve seen his work and you can take it from me:
So should you.
George is also a guitar player, songwriter, poet, blogger and – at least once – novelist, father and bread maker.
George also suffers from depression that can be overwhelming and immobilizing. I knew he had undertaken a bold, multifaceted regimen to turn his life around and was well on his way when pandemic came to town and cut all those new lifelines.
Here's some perspective from one who has long struggled with that invisible but all too real darkness on living under lockdown with depression .
