Jake Manabat

Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Lowell High School

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proud member of Actor's Equity Association since 1999

live performance (musicals, plays, concerts), food, food, and food. Did I say food?

Glamorama/Brett Easton Ellis. Fixer Chao/Han Ong. Waiting/Ha Jin. Kite Runner/Khaled Hosseini. Inner Circle/T.C. Boyle.

1. Muriel's Wedding 2. Moulin Rouge 3. Monster 4. Maurice 5. Showgirls

"Crash"/Dave Matthews Band, Yellowcard, Maroon5, Jimmy Eat World, "If You Leave"/OMD, Michael Nyman, J.S. Bach, Hans Zimmer, "I Wanna Be With You"/Mandy Moore, Madonna, Lighthouse, "Mr. Brightside"/The Killers, Kelly Clarkson, "Both Sides"/Joni Mitchell, Jason Mraz, Erasure, Edwin McCain, Queen, ABBA

i don't watch tv, so here are my fave plays and musicals: Wit, The Unexpected Man, Closer, Red, Wonderland, Rent, Hedwig, Last 5 Years, Parade, Saigon, Les Miz

Sagittarius

My favorite thing in the world is basking in the power of performance - movies, straight plays, musical theatre, dance, or music. And boy do I love food. But all that is expensive, so thankfully I enjoy conversation. That, thank God, is free.

I am looking to meet the artistically inclined. The need to express human experience incites you to create in spite of living in a world that promotes success through the accumulation of wealth and status. You could be an EECS geek, but you look fondly at the ten years of piano lessons your parents forced you to take. You could be working in a cubicle, but you've decorated it with postcards from your friend's trip to the Shukiji fish market in Tokyo, pics from a gastronomic adventure in a Paris side street, panels from an old BubbleGum Crisis comic, or plastic action figures from McFarlane's latest creations. Art belongs to everyone, and if you have the willingness to embrace and the talent to express it, consider yourself blessed, priveleged, and worthy of honor.