

Today we’d like to introduce you to Gideon Hodge.
Gideon, we’d love to hear your story and how you got to where you are today both personally and as an artist.
I was a small town boy from Lorain, Ohio with dreams of performance and a wild imagination.
I would spend my time daydreaming, writing stories, and creating shows for my neighborhood friends and at family get-togethers.
I always wanted to be on the stage. After years of performing in any school show, I could get myself involved. I started doing shows at the college and local level. I got to explore the period and various performance styles in my classes. I even performed for a year with a martial arts stunt team at one of the colleges I attended. (My college career was not a straight path.)
In my years in performing in college, I met a group that were involved in burlesque and vaudeville shows. In the early 2000s, I was fascinated by their striped outfits and fancy hats. I soon took to the stage with them, cane in hand.
Vaudeville performance would keep me busy for the next few years, eventually going on tour throughout the Northeast, performing with a wide variety of amazing performers such as Adam Dipert, Alien John, Amanda Palmer, and Brian Viglione.
The next page of my adventure brought me to New Orleans, where I started booking work in television, commercials, and film. I continued to perform in stage shows throughout New Orleans, continuing in theater, burlesque, and vaudeville. Also in my time there, I met a number of exciting directors and actors. I had the pleasure of joining a number of independent projects such as Midnight Murder, Project Z, Shooting Stars and the series 20 Something.
I played smaller roles in large scale productions, as well as leading roles in independent films such as Rappaccini’s Daughter, Lenore, and Ligeia.
Coming from a circus and theater background, I found my joy in playing diverse and eclectic character roles.
I have a number of fun projects on the horizon and look forward to more zany roles in the future.
In the meanwhile, I released my first novel, Lilith’s Redemption.
We’d love to hear more about your art. What do you do and why and what do you hope others will take away from your work?
Hopefully, they take away a small amount of joy. Reading and studying about myths and legends for so much of my life, I try to bring the magic I find there into the world around me.
I create whenever I can find the time. I look at the world around me and think ‘wouldn’t this be neat?’”
In my circus days, I took a lot of my inspiration from black and white films, particularly the works of Charlie Chaplin. In my writing, I delved into folklore, mythology, and history to find interesting ways to put it together in my stories and screenplays.
Aside from the novel I wrote and the handful of movies I’ve gotten to create, there has been a score more short stories, and stage shows exploring the themes of what could be that I still hope to indulge in.
My recent sitcom appearance in Pros and Cons let me delve into the wonderful world of nerd-dom that I hold so dear. My current novel series, Engineer’s Empire and children’s book Kazimer the Cat have let me indulge in the fantasy realm.
Ultimately, I want to renew peoples’ belief in magic. I want them to believe in it. I want them to believe in themselves. I want our every day lives to be full of whimsy and wonder. I want us to be able to take a breath in the middle of our hectic lives and smile.
Artists face many challenges, but what do you feel is the most pressing among them?
Relevance.
In the screaming cacophony of the multimedia age, I think that’s all any of us are really looking for. To feel like we matter.
Much gets lost in the shuffle, however. How many likes or followers do we have? How much money have we made? How many people know our names?
It’s a heck of a mind job we do on ourselves as artists. If fame or fortune is the pursuit, there will never be enough of either.
We touch pen to page, brush to canvas, pic to strings, toe to dance floor because we want to feel alive. There is something in us that we seek to give life to and we want to share that life with others.
As long as we strive for that from a true sense of self, we cannot go wrong.
Do you have any events or exhibitions coming up? Where would one go to see more of your work? How can people support you and your artwork?
How or where can people see your work? How can people support your work?
My first novel is available on Amazon. (Link below.)
I perform with Four Suits Entertainment, and there is information regarding my shows on their page as well as my own.
My YouTube will be starting back up soon, along with my new producer.
Updates will be posted on my Facebook page, as well as on my website gideonhodge.com.
I promise to be posting all of the updates soon!
Lilith’s Redemption:
https://www.amazon.com/Liliths-Redemption-Gideon-Hodge/dp/1453619399/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=lilith%27s+redemption&qid=1552421458&s=gateway&sr=8-1
https://www.facebook.com/lilithsredemption/
Contact Info:
- Website: www.gideonhodge.com
- Email: gideonhodge@gmail.com
- Instagram: @gidjinn
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gideonhodge/
- Twitter: @gideonhodge
- Other: https://www.amazon.com/Liliths-Redemption-Gideon-Hodge/dp/1453619399/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=liliths+redemption&qid=1552422183&s=gateway&sr=8-1
Image Credit:
Roux La La
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