GENE LASKO

It´s been a while, but I am working on a play that Gene would have loved. I wish he were here to ask how I can approach it. I imagine what he would have said. That helps.

Thank you Gene for showing me the path to be an artist. RIP.

Thinking of you Gene. My class began Shakespeare work last week, I am praying for your guidance. Love and miss you.

Miss you Gene, my first acting teacher who saw something in me. May you RIP. Nikki

It has been many years since your passing. So much in the world has happened and I think you would be at times shocked, definitely disappointed but ultimately hopeful. I miss you Mr. Lasko, I often think of you and the generosity you exuded to me and our class when learning Shakespeare. You gave me so much love and support while training with you, you made me comfortable with Shakespeare. I am calling upon you to guide my steps as I move into teaching what I can of Shakespeare. I will be...

I thought of you today. As a teenager, and young actor, my mother dragged me to your class. I still remember the first private session I had with you before we started working together. I was headstrong, resistant and prone to phoning in the work. You saw right through me. Yet nearly 40 years later, I still value the techniques you installed in me. You will always be my first and truest acting teacher. Thank you.

Another year? Be still my beating heart. Gene, I remember you as if it were yesterday the last time we met in NY. How dear you are. We need to memorialise you somehow.