Macon Magazine

October/November 2025 | maconmagazine.com 41 What they say about him: On and off the stage, he brings everything to the table. His Intro to Theatre class comes over every year for a tour of the building to get Mercer students involved. He builds props and works behind the scenes. He's on our production committee, which goes through the season and helps select shows. I think the greatest asset that Tony brings is just the amount of theatre that he sees per year. He's really checked in with what's out there, what's being done. Sometimes with very niche projects that no one's heard of, sometimes with, "Hey, this is what everybody's doing right now." He's also a fantastic actor and we're always happy to have him working on shows. In his own words: How long have you been working with Macon Little Theatre? When I discovered the theatre, that would've been 1992. I was doing an internship in grad school at Wesleyan, it just so happened. I didn't know anything about Macon. They were doing "Gypsy" here. I thought, let's go and see, and that started it. I did that show, then that summer I went back to grad school. When we moved from Ohio and we were looking at places, I'm like, "Macon has a theatre community! This would be great. Yes. Perfect." So I came back. What's the best part of being involved on the stage? I just think it's the whole being involved part, in some small way. I'm very proud of being able to contribute to our arts community and what's going on. We need art. We need theatre—and it's in a tiny way, but I can help with that. What memories stick out to you here? I've got a photo of my daughter when she was a toddler, kind of walking around in the lobby. She came in and was sitting in one of these seats in MLT. The kids have grown up here, and they're not on the stage, but they're really good audience members. They've been coming ever since. They were younger than they should have been here, but they were always good. Tony Kemp M A C O N L I T T L E T H E A T R E

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