Inside Iowa State: Iowa State University

July 26, 2002

After five

Ever wonder where your co-workers are headed at the end of the day? This Inside feature catches up with university employees "after five." Photo by Kerry Gibson.

Name: Marty Ellenberger
By day, he's: Media specialist, Instructional Technology Center
After five, he's: Actor, having performed in "70 to 100 shows" the past 30 years
Knew acting was his scene: In an eighth-grade production of Oh, Baby, a madcap adventure of babysitters and mistaken identities
The play that gets his 'props': The 1989 Maintenance Shop's production of Hair Quote worthy of Variety while recently playing Oliver! villain Bill Sykes: "To paraphrase actor Gabriel Byrne, 'Most actors labor under the misconception that they play other people, when, in fact, they actually play themselves.' I hope, for my sake, he was wrong."