arts Meet Tron Montgomery
Actor and Sanitation Worker Premiers His Play at the Hickman Tron Montgomery is the writer and star of the recent production “Hooked on a Bad Spirit” at the Catherine Hickman Theater. Most mornings, you can also find Montgomery driving a City of Gulfport sanitation truck. “Being an actor isn’t the richest profession... my dream has always been a needle in a haystack,” said Montgomery. “So yes, I have a day job.” The Gulfport resident often finds himself reading scripts on his route. “Being an actor, I find myself acting like a garbage man. I can drive the hell out of the truck, but there’s so much more to life than being a robot and working.”
TRON MONTGOMERY
By Abby Baker
Hooked on Theater “Hooked” is a combination of Montgomery’s experience in Gulfport and a three-part miniseries of plays he’s been tinkering with for over a decade. The show follows seven characters, all named after and based on people he knew in childhood. An empty spot in the Catherine Hickman Theater schedule gave
Actor, playwright and City of Gulfport sanitation worker Tron Montgomery debuted his play, “Hooked on a Bad Spirit“ at the Catherine Hickman Theater. “I want to put my stamp on this thriving little town,” he said.
Montgomery’s original work a chance to shine. The original onenight date of Saturday, July 31 sold out almost immediately, prompting an encore show on Friday, July 30. “It’s not a musical, so every scene has to be seat-gripping, and you can only sing a person to death so many times,” Montgomery said. “There’s a 15-minute intermission, but aside from that I want people to hold their pee.” A third “encore, encore” showing of “Hooked” was set for Saturday, August 21, but was canceled this week after the female lead tested positive for COVID-19. The cast hopes to perform the final promised production in October.
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