Guy Strauss, longtime resident of North Truro, Massachusetts and founding Artistic Director of Payomet Performing Arts (1998 – 2008) in the same town, passed away quietly in the early morning hours of Tuesday, February 18, 2014. He was 83 years old. Guy was born on October 2, 1930 in Paris, France, to Mildred Schmoll Strauss and Roger Armand Strauss (who had died of wounds incurred fighting for France during World War I). Guy came to the United States with his mother and brother, Bertrand, having fled Paris before the Nazi occupation of 1940. With his first wife, Ann Dalmas (Strauss) Berk, he had two sons, Marc and Daniel (1957 – 1991) Strauss, and is survived by his son Marc Strauss, a professor of dance at Southeast Missouri State University and resident of Wellfleet, his current wife, Margaret Stewart, a resident of North Truro, and other relatives still in France, the United States and around the world.
Guy was a member of the Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) for many years, having performed in numerous films (Mystic River, True Lies, Amistad, The Crucible), plays (A Life in the Theatre, Savior of the Universe, The Boys Next Door, True West), television series (The Brotherhood, St. Elsewhere, Spenser for Hire), corporate videos, and commercials. Among many other ventures, Guy toured and performed The Seagull and Hamlet via a Cultural Exchange to Sevastopol and St. Petersburg, Russia, with the Chekhov Theatre and Film Festival and also trained with the Stanislavsky Summer School Moscow Art Theatre and Kristin Linklater Shakespeare and Voice program. He was particularly proud of his acting work in periodic touring presentations (with actress Beverly Bentley) of A. R. Gurney’s Love Letters, his production of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, a one-person show of the works of poet and short-story writer Raymond Carver that he lovingly compiled and performed solo, and the WOMR 92.1 FM Theatre of the Air radio program Obediently Yours: Orson Welles.
Guy was a longtime lover of all the arts on the Outer Cape, particularly in his support of the visual arts through the Provincetown Arts Association and Museum (PAAM), Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, and numerous Outer Cape art galleries, as well as the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre (W.H.A.T.). He was also a participating member of the Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore Board of Directors. Always looking ahead with an open mind and heart, he was asked to write a few words as Payomet Performing Arts neared its 15th year in 2013. The following comments may represent his truest beliefs about our time here: “My dream of installing a year-round brick-and-mortar theatre at Highlands Center as per the RFP to the Cape Cod National Seashore…remains elusive, but where there’s life, there’s hope.”
Visitation times (closed casket) will be held Friday, February 21, 2014, 4:00 – 7:00 pm, at Nickerson Funeral Home, 340 Main Street, Wellfleet, MA 02667. Burial will be in Oakdale Cemetery on Saturday, February 22, 2014, at 11:00 am. In lieu of flowers donations on behalf of “Guy Strauss” may be made to Payomet Performing Arts or Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore.
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