Horace J. Digby
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Horace J. Digby (Born 1950 in Longview, Washington) is an American humorist living in the Pacific Northwest.
In 2005 Horace J. Digby was named "the next Robert Benchley" by the Robert Benchley Society and Espree Magazine, Digby won the 2005 Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor.
In 2006 Digby began a series of online Radio Interviews for A3Radio out of Ann Arbor Michigan, interviewing humorists, publishers, authors, comedians, humor columnists, journalists, filmmakers and other media figures. Current Horace J. Digby Report shows are catalogued online.
[edit] Projects - Stage, Screen & Print
Digby works with many talented people like:
- Novelist best-selling, author, screenwriter Steven Barnes whose teleplay A Stitch In Time earned an Emmy Award for Amanda Plummer's performance on Outer Limits;
- Pulitzer Prize winning humorist Dave Barry, and Robert Benchley experts David Trumbull and Gordon Ernst judging the Robert Benchley Society humor awards;
- Hollywood Executive Producer C. Tad Devlin executive producer of George of the Jungle, Sleeping With The Enemy, Mighty Ducks 3, the Immigrant Garden;"
- Award winning playwright Caroline Wood;
- Director of Photography Gregg M. Campbell;
- Emmy Award winner photographer Dale Dimmick;
- Rock 'n' Roll groups and musicians like the Brougham Closet recorded on Mother Bear Records, The Kingsmen, The Wailers, Albatross, The Bill Grant Trio, and Hank Rasco; ABC television's for Dick Clark Productions with Paul Revere & The Raiders, Barbara Feldon and The Grass Roots on Happening '69;
- Acting with New York playwright Doug York;
- Producing videos featuring international martial arts expert Stevan Plinck, New York Times best-selling author Steve Perry (author) (Star Wars - The Phantom Menace), and New York Times best-selling author Steven Barnes;
- Appearing with Canadian television star Seán Cullen for Canadian television producer Nick Orchard and the Canadian Travel Network
Digby has written for the Columbia River Reader, SandBagger Mag-e-zine, Weyerhaeuser News, the Tacoma News Tribune, Auburn Globe News, Renton Record Chronicle, Kent News Journal, We're In The People Business, and other publications.
Digby served as template for the character "Art" for whom things go so terribly wrong in best-selling novel, The Good House written by Digby's good friend award winning author, novelist and screenwriter Tananarive Due.
A veteran of the stage and public speaking, Digby's is often introduced, "He's a writer, musician, actor, filmmaker, lecturer, magician and international man of mystery. Too bad he can't hold a steady job . . ."
[edit] Popular Digby topics Include
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- recounting his mishaps with a French-for-Travelers CD;
- visiting the Robert Benchley Society;
- introducing a new media technology that corrects Errata before it occurs;
- proving that the human race is only 400 years old;
- conducting guerilla interviews with celebrities like Dave Barry;
- remembering the Kennewick Man's youth, "we called him the 'Kennewick Boy.'"
