Into the Sun: Colin Stokes

Aug 28, 2014

Colin Stokes.  How do I even start to tell you who Colin Stokes is?  There are so many layers to this man, and I feel like I have scratched the surface, possibly seen through a crack of his carefully-constructed deliberateness.

Colin is from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  The house he grew up in was a hospital during the Civil War.  When we talked of what I know about the battleground, he reminded me of Lincoln calling it, “hallowed ground.”  He knows the area well, enjoying walks with his dogs.

The story goes that he heard Yo-Yo Ma playing on the radio when he was five years old, and told his parents he wanted to play that.  He started learning at age seven, and at 13 moved to Baltimore to be closer to his teacher.  He got to play with Ma when he was a teenager, an experience he is very humble and brief to recount.

He says the project is already a success.  The rehearsal, the sense of collaboration with all the players, creating a fully staged dramatic work was exciting, and he’s never been involved in anything like it.  He believes those emotions… that youthful energy will come through in the performance.

Here are his words:



