Starting on Friday night, November 21st, Stann Gwynn reprises his role of Ebenezer Scrooge in Trustus Theatre’s The Christmas Carol. Stann is a graduate of Wake Forest University where he majored in French. At home on the dramatic and musical theater stages, Stann was seen as George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe at Workshop Theatre; Mr. Daldry in In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Steve Heidebrecht in August; Osage County, Father Flynn in Doubt, Martin in The Goat or Who is Sylvia, Vantentin in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Bobby in Company at Trustus Theater; Perry in Love! Valour! Compassion!, Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd, Harold in The Full Monty, Louis in Pippin, and Valentine Xavier in Orpheus Descending at Workshop Theatre. With Opera at USC he appeared as Woton/Hagen/ Gunter in Das Barbecu, Roy Johnson in Light in the Piazza, Fredrick in A Little Night Music, and Le Surinendant des Plaisirs in Cendrillon. As a dancer, several roles include Uncle Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker, Dr. Copelius in Copelia, and Dr. Von Helsing in Dracula with Columbia City Ballet.

We caught up with Stann and asked him exactly Six Questions. Here are his answers.

Jasper: What do you do when you aren’t acting?
Stann: I own a distributing company that sells disposable supplies to the hospitality industry. After seeing a show I did years ago, a friend laughed at the absurd dichotomy of my life; by night I was a sweaty revolutionary in a Brazilian prison (Kiss of the Spider Woman) and by day I helped restaurants decide if they needed two-ply or single-ply toilet paper. “Hi Ho the glamorous life,” as the song says.

Jasper: What is the worst job you ever had?
Stann: I worked in a bleach bottling plant. I was at the end of the production line putting lids on gallon jugs of bleach. As the jugs advanced through the rusty equipment, the bleach would slosh out of the bottles onto the dirt floor, so for eight hours a shift, I stood in bleach-mud. It was Dickensian.

Jasper: What is the best part you ever played?
Stann: I have been lucky enough to play a lot of really well-written, well-directed roles, and can’t pick one as the best, but I must say Sweeny Todd was the most difficult role I’ve ever attempted. That show will kick a man’s ass.

Jasper: What part are you dying to play but never have?
Stann: Some of my favorite experiences in the theater have been playing roles I hadn’t considered. I would audition for one role, and get another, and end up loving the character I was cast to play, so these days I don’t long for specific roles. Not to mention that I have aged out of playing most of the roles I used to wish for.

Jasper: All-time favorite actor and why?
Stann: Philip Seymour Hoffman did some beautifully subtle character work.

Jasper: What’s up next for Stann Gwynn, actor?
Stann: Right now I just have to breathe some life into Scrooge; after that I have no plans.