Dafidd McCracken

It was simply by circumstance that Dafidd met Harold Clurman. Dafidd and Mr. Clurman, the legendary founder of The Group Theatre, were both at the University of New Mexico when one afternoon Dafidd, a political science major at the time, slipped into the theatre department and took a seat in Mr. Clurman's Master class. As good luck would have it no one asked Dafidd to leave and as he listened to Clurman's passionate style of social and artistic ideals Dafidd was quickly struck with such a soaring certainty about what he wanted to do with his life that within three days he had switched his major from political science to theatre arts. In collage he acted in everything from Shakespeare to experimental plays, winning accolades and the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center/American Collage Theatre Festival Award for acting. This lead to an invitation to join the professional resident acting company at the celebrated Tony award winning Alley Theatre in Houston. His first week at the Alley, Da