He and Richard Lipton were production supervisors for Tom Eyen's play, "What is Making Gilda So Gray?," at the Theatre of the Eye Repertory Company at La MaMa ETC in New York City with Helen Hanft (played Gilda) and Neil Flanagan (played Franco) in the cast. Eric Concklin, Julia Curry, Nicki Kaplan, James MacDonald, Julia Willis and he were also in the ensemble. Bill Edgar and Dorin McGough were stage managers. Neil Flanagan was also director. Steve Whitson was lighting designer.
Changed his name to "Irving Metzman", the name of his character in the
second play he did. Planned to change his name for each appearance to
that of his character in the play before, but didn't follow through and
has remained known as "Irving Metzman".
