Actor Jeremy Kahn bears a striking resemblance to Bill Gates in the new play "First," now having its world premiere in San Francisco.
(Credit: Stage Werx)
There’s Bill Gates the inventor, Bill Gates the philanthropist, Bill Gates the business magnate.
Then there’s the 20-year-old Bill Gates who argues with his mom via pay phone and can’t stop yelling about people stealing his software. That’s the Bill Gates at the center of “First,” a fictional retelling of the people and events that launched the PC revolution.
The play by Evelyn Jean Pine — now having its world premiere at Stage Werx Theatre in San Francisco — takes place on March 26, 1976, on the eve of the first Altair computer conference in Albuquerque, N.M.
Gates is poised to speak to major players in the computer industry — including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and the late Ed Roberts, a pioneering engineer who built the first widely available home computer — and he knows he has to give the speech of his life.
The young Gates is passionate, idealistic, a little cocky, and a lot stressed out.
“Our Bill is having a very rough day,” Jeremy Kahn, the lanky, floppy-haired actor who portrays the iconic busine… [Read more]
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