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Updated 12:00 a.m., Sun June 16, 2013
PHOTO BY: Nick Hillemann

Michael Counts, a longtime theater professor at Lyon College, retired following the spring semester. He plans to move to New Mexico to pursue a full-time acting career.

Michael Counts

Retired Lyon theater director searching for ‘big break’

Michael Counts is still looking for his big break as an actor. A former carnival worker, Counts started his teaching career at Lyon College in Batesville 21 years ago. Before that and after high school, he spent time with a traveling carnival, where he said he caught the showbiz bug. Counts said he worked in a tent at the carnival where he was in charge of collecting money for a bingo game, and also in various other game tents. He did carnival work for about three years, then ended up going to acting school to pursue acting as a career, he said. Counts saw the movie On ... READ MORE

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