CHARACTER: Sir Gerald ("Gerry," as his close friends call him... "Geritol," as Prince Phillip likes to call him) is a former school mate and carousing buddy of Prince Phillip's. He is the second son to the Earl of Lancaster, making him a trust-fund baby, but titleless. He has been knighted under the auspices of the Prince to be his monarchically-mandated body guard, man-at-arms, compatriot and... errr... drinking companion. Generally, all officious business gets pushed aside for the latter, and they get each other into more trouble than not. Sir Gerald can be found wandering the streets with the Royal Prince, or singing with his little friends in Ten Seconds of Harmony.

PERSONAL: I reside in Saint Paul, MN and have wonderful, sweet twin daughters (shown on my personal page) and a beautiful, robust, good natured young son. They are the lights of my life. I, along with Bill Lochen, John Neitz, Dan Kujawski, Stephen Katzenburger, Eric Nelson and several other Fest friends and cohorts, am one of the founding members of "The 42nd Highland Regiment," a living history troupe that recreates the Highland Scots of the 42nd Regiment [the Black Watch] during the French & Indian War (circa 1759). So when I am not "Renaissancing," I am "Red-Coating."
[submitted April 4, 2004 ]

scotty@taverntent.com
Yahoo IM: seamus_duggery
ICQ: 86179925
Personal: http://www.taverntent.com
42nd Highlanders: http://www.highlandregiment.org
Stirling Renaissance Faire: http://www.stirlingfaire.com

Former Safety Services and Trail of Terror Security.
[submitted 11/9/2009]

probinette@comcast.net

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I'm 19, a student at St. Kates, been at Fest for four years at the maypole (may it rest in peace). I started in 2002 after a friend mentioned casually in 2005 that she danced out at Ren Fest, and I asked how I could do that, and the rest is history. Usually (the past few years) I could be seen at the maypole, obviously, or gallavanting about the street between shows, mostly hanging around the juggling school or at volleyclub or wreaking havoc elsewhere. I'm also awful at writing these bio things.
[submitted 6/3/2007]

neos.alter.ego@gmail.com
http://www.nbtsc.org/fiona

Riki  was born like the song goes "late December back in '63" And with a father in the state department had a most interesting childhood. He has fond memories of Pakistan, (where he was born), Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Germany, and England, and even remembers chasing butterflies in Laos during the Vietnam War. The Best stage Combatant in the Group, and fight director for the troupe, he directed the Highly acclaimed Human Chess Match at the Bay Area Renaissance Festival of Largo for six years He is constantly honing his fighting and directing skills as well as pursuing a second career in literature. Originally a street Character at the Largo Show, he co-founded the group in 1987 bringing a little comic madness to us all . As well as his abilities as a fighter, director and teacher he's very good to his elderly mother, and he even does windows.

RTOR2GA@aol.com
http://www.tortugatwins.com

praline6@msn.com

Anna Roedler, Herpetological Society Core Volunteer (former)

I started volunteering at the Como Cottage as a Como Zoo volunteer in 1996. When the MN Herpetological Society took full responsibility for the cottage I became a member of their core volunteer group for two years before having to move to Arizona (I am working on my MA). The 1999 season was the last time I was at MRF, but I will be back for the 2002 season (I hope!). I don't have a character name, but I could usually be seen "on fence" at Como Cottage with one of my reptiles as well as in the parade.

ajroedler@yahoo.com

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I've been a games hawker for 3 years now, I run the Catapulting Frogs game.
[submitted 5/29/2009]

gypsy@freeq.com

Over the years, I have gotten to know many wonderful people. I have seen characters and performers come and go. Each has taught me something about myself and people in general. Aside from being an engineer, I have been making a lot of wine and dry mead on the side. Zins, Wht Merlot, Liebfraumilch, etc. You name it, I'll make it!1996 thru 2000 - Tavern Keep
2001 - Como Cottage
2002 - Royal Guard
2004 - Tavern Keep at Queen's Pub
2008 - Mead Guy
[submitted 7/30/2008]

canus_mynx@yahoo.com
http://www.livejournal.com/users/william_mackean/

2006 was my 17th year as an Entertainer - though I still don't feel like an old-timer out here. I have worn many hats so far: bus greeter, street character, production staff, big body puppet, entertainment liaison to marketing for pre-season parades and events, blah, blah, blah. The character I have played the longest is Weenie (Rowena) the Pied Piper's Less Illustrious Sister - he's still pretty mad about how I lost those kids from Hamlin.

Due to some pretty serious health problems, I haven't been able to be quite as active the last few years. Since 2003, I have been portraying the Festival mascot - The Unicorn. Her name is Pansy and she likes long quiet walks in the forest with virgins, candied flowers and hugs. You can usually find Pansy at the opening gate, parade, and walking around the village looking for those hugs. No one is too old, young, or cool for a hug.
[submitted 1/28/2007]

weeniepiper@yahoo.com

First started working fest in 2008, attended fest regularly from 2006 (recruited to be herald for friends weddings) Work at craft stores. Learning sewing, do leatherwork, Do other crafty stuff. Been told I give a good back massage (Had Schug purring).
[submitted 5/19/2009]

jrolfstad@yahoo.com

I started at fest 23 years ago in a booth. I moved to the street when I was 18 and worked with the Human Combat Chess Game. 10 years ago I left fest and 2 years ago (2001) I returned to co-manager the Chess Game. It has been great! I have played many characters during my time with the game. My favorite was Alex, First Mate to Capt. Henry Morgan. on the Revenge. Now you can usually find me at the Unicorn Stage.

tracyr426@yahoo.com

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Andrew Rose, Fencing Booth
Roo, just Roo

A bouncy, energetic Scotsman who came to our faire in '91. He's very pleased to meet you and make you laugh, if you don't laugh he'll insult you until you either laugh, fight or flee! Watch out for his kilt... I wander around and try to meet everyone I can. I usually catch tennis and will be at either the closing gate show or Drum Jam. If you're in a fix and I'm not behind horse gate, check the juggling shows...

andy.art@juno.com
http://www.fencingbooth.com

Douglas Rose, Mayor's Entourage
Jan Van der Waal

drose_med@msn.com

I first came to fest in 2001 and was hok from the minute I walked through front gate the next year I started with CKC(feel soory for me) I enjoyed myself but was only able to get out on ground during hours very little. Then in 2003 after a long time of searching for a different job I got in with CKC again and had a decent year that ended kinda badly. anyway I met some of my best friends and strongest connects this year.

Phat_man8@hotmail.com

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Brad Roth, Street
Vladimire Paradise

1994-1997 - CKC
1998-2000 - Shakopee Jaycees working in Queen's Pub
2001- Member of The Peacock Players. Finally got the courage to become a Street Entertainer!

Brad: vladimire_r1@excite.com

Sherry Roth, Street
Rosalily Bud

"Mom" to many who know me, Editor/Publisher of "The Knight After" and street character who was featured in the August 22, 1998 Mpls Star Tribune Variety Section of the paper (which was quite a surprise when I was initially contacted by the paper!). I had been a patron for about 10 years before I was encouraged by Bill Peltzman (our dear Mayor) to audition. I mulled it over and got some tips/advice from Bill Lochen (our Sheriff Extraordinaire) while researching decorating ideas for my oldest daughter’s all night graduation party-A Night At Camelot. Thanks to both “Bill’s” and my children’s encouragement (I am forever indebted to them), I got up the nerve to audition in 1989. That was scary…I sat up all night before the audition trying to think of what to do. Finally, I wrote a poem about how scared I was. Arriving at the audition the next day, I was surrounded by so many college “youngsters” (I was the ripe old age of 38) and thought, “What the h*ll am I doing here at my age?” My husband at the time said, “I didn’t drive you up here for you to back out!” With my lower lip quivering, I got up on stage and belted out my poem – “Am I as good as I wish to be?” The rest is history…I’m still here! (And my ashes will probably be spread at the site someday.)

1999 – Keeper and Guardian of our Unicorn Mascot
1989 – Victoria Belardi, Front Gate
1990-1991 – Velda Vasa of Vasa’s Daughters (group nominated for Most Improved? in 1990)
1992 – Rosalily Bud was born along with her sister Callalily
1993–Present – Still Rosalily, helped with the Chess Match on the sidelines a couple of years, had a stint as Manager of the Special Events Pavilion from 1995-1997 (no-way, no-how, never again!), worked with Mistress Bawd in 1998 (no I did not sing, you wouldn’t want to hear that)

Of course, the highlight of my years at Fest was in September 1995 when I married my present (and last!) husband, Brad. Both Brad and I are very proud to be part of The Phoenix Project. May it prosper and flourish with helping those in need! son: Brandon, Cedric Thorne McBoodle

rosalilybud@excite.com
http://www.cloudnet.com/~renfest/

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I was as a Playtron from 1999 to 2005. In 2006, I started working for the Children's Trilogy of Games. I have since created Lady Leanetta Senza Fine' who is off looking for a marriage of convenience since older Italian nobles are trying to force her to marry them as they want her land. She is of the opinion that she is capable of taking care of her land herself. When I am not working in the booth, I am found walking around the festival, enjoying shows and shopping.
[submitted 3/13/2007]

LynnRothstein@hotmail.com

amroubik@yahoo.com

Butch Roy, Puppet Troupe & Vilification Tennis
Owen Dimm

I started festival when I was 15 with CKC, where I worked for two years in a greasy onion rings booth by the falconer's stage, it sucked but I did meet my soon to be partner George working in a greasy seafood booth. I attended academy prior to my third year and joined the puppet troupe right out of the gates. The one day I missed cast call in my fourth year George signed the both of us up to play vilifcation tennis and the rest is history. I am happy that the last couple years my son, Anthony, has been joining me at festival.

butch@fivemanjob.com
http://www.fivemanjob.com

I had been wanting to go to a Renaissance Festival for over 15 years and I finally got my chance in August of 2003. I was hooked from the moment I walked through the front gate. I was so enamored of Festival that I joined the Renaissance Festival working for CKC at booth # 1536 ("Rose Cart") in the Folkstone Welly area on 08-21-04. In 2005, I started working for “The Midsummer Knight's Dream.” (www.fantasypuppet.com) I will be working with them again this year and I will be learning to repair sick puppets as well. Please stop by and visit us there. We have many wonderful babies that need loving homes. Would you give a “woodbaby” a loving home? I spent the last festival camping at the campgrounds for the entire run and I loved it. Where else outside of a national park can one go to sleep at night listening to the wolfs and foxes talking to each other and wake up to nothing but the sounds of birds and chipmunks at play? It is even a kick to sit next to your tent, having a cup of coffee and say “Good morning to you sir snake” to a ribbon snake going past your tent and have the little thing stop, look at you and nod to you (I swear the little thing was saying good morning back to me.) and then go on his way. I could not find a better bunch of people to call my friends and family then festival people. I will be camping at festival and staying there during the entire run of festival again this year. I dare you to try and drag me out of there before festival is over! Camping at festival for the entire run is my treat to myself for putting up with what we laughingly call “The Real World” for 10 months a year. I am now a “Mary Kay” makeup consultant (As of May the 15th 2006.) and I will be available to assist anyone that needs makeup help during any week of festival. I have items for the ladies and the men and I have makeup remover and face creams for the entertainers that have to use a lot of makeup in their performances as well as sun screen for those that do not use makeup. Just stop by “The Foxes Den” in the campgrounds during the week or drop by “The Midsummer Knight’s Dream” and make a quick appointment during the weekend for the following week. I can also be contacted at the email link listed below for appointments during non festival months. On the title of “Lady Royce.” The title is a real one due to my Grandfather being from "The House Of Royce" in Devonshire, England. He was "Lord Emmet Royce." When he passed away, the title passed to my Mum and when she passed away, it was passed to me. So I am legally “Lady Donna Marie Royce,” House of Royce, Devonshire, England. I just wish I had the money, castle and property that come with the title. I would be heading to England so fast that your head would never stop spinning and then set up the grandest Renaissance Festival you have ever seen, right on the castle grounds. I am totally in love with the festival & here is why. Ever since my Mum had to move with my brothers & I, away (To far to travel too conveniently.) from the Sequoia mountains in Northern California that she & I loved so much, I have felt totally out of place. The festival & the grounds it occupies have put me back in my place, and I can not help but to love it there. All the forests of the world have a magic & a power there, (The older the forest the better.) & they are willing to share this gift with anyone that is willing to accept it. Are you willing to accept this gift? My friend Pam & I have finished our first fantasy story based on MRF and the fox tails sold there. It is titled “The Foxes Of Renaissance.” (web site below). We would like all of you to read a bit of it and give us your input. We are now working on a follow-up story and will post this one when we have a bit of it done and will be incorporating all input from the first story into this second story. Keep in mind that this will be a rough draft and your input WILL BE incorporated into the final draft. Until this festival season, (And I Will Be There!) Huzza To The Royal Family And The MRF.
[submitted 5/25/2006]

donna_royce@yahoo.com, lroyce2@marykay.com
http://home.earthlink.net/~huntingpaws/foxesofrenaissance/

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My character, Delia Beatrice Cooper, first appeared on site in 2004 (brought there by the Sterling family). She is the daughter of Damien Bartholomew Cooper and great-niece of Lord Mayor William Cooper. Shortly after Delia's birth, her mother lost her memory in a tragic bathing accident and they were both sent away to a convent in the south of France, where they lived until Delia was 17. It was then that her mother died and the nuns told Delia, who had been very bored at the convent, that her father was a merchant with some property and connections. So, Delia went to England, determined to find her father and then a husband so that she could one day inherit whatever it was her father had.
[submitted 12/10/2007]

zazie87@hotmail.com

[submitted 10/29/2006]

Joan Ruland, Patron

Patron for a couple of years, yearning to become more involved

tigira@hotmail.com

2004 will be David's 13th year being involved with the Adventures of Robin Hood. He started out playing Friar Tuck, but this will be his 6th year as Little John. You can find him down on the Sherwood Stage four times a day recreating the scene where Little John and Robin Hood First met, where they show off their skills in stage combat using staff, sword and of course, their bare fists. Their goal once again this year will be to soak as many patrons in the first four rows as possible. On a good day, David has been known to splash all the way back to the 8th row.
[submitted 4/17/2004]

drune@mn.rr.com

http://www.funksgrove.com
http://www.lojorusso.com

ryanpattyxf@yahoo.com