Max Blonde is old Mr. Hardcastle, with Peter Ash as Hastings and David Gallic as Marlowe, in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

Max Blonde graduated from Portland State University in 2000 with a BA in theatre arts. The next year he and John Duncan co-produced the first play at the West End Theatre in Portland, “Master Harold . . . and the boys.” During the next year Max worked on a number of plays and films in the Portland area and performed improv comedy with Star Can’t Dead. In 2002 he left for Los Angeles to work in the film and television industry.

    Max returned briefly from LA in 2007 to appear in Twilight Repertory’s (then the New Group Theatre Company) first production, Extremities, in which he played the rapist Raoul.

    Max finally left LA for good in 2008 and returned to join Twilight Repertory, playing the parts of Mr. Hardcastle in She Stoops To Conquer, Nicola in Arms and the Man, Claudio in Measure For Measure, and Christian in The Meat Shall Inherit. Most recently Max is portraying Jeff in Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero, May 20th through June 12th at the ShoeBox.

    Max has served as technical director for Twilight Repertory, in charge of set and lighting design and any special effects which may or may not have worked.