Bill Brennan

WOW, what to say about Bill Brennan... well, let's start at the beginning. Bill first saw RHPS when he was 15 in a small theater in a small redneck town in New Jersey. He joined his first cast when he was 15 1/2, and has been performing ever since. As of 1998, this makes him an 18 year veteran of the scene, one of the "old timers" as it were. Bill has performed with many casts over the years, but his main cast and "home" has been the NY cast in Manhattan (formerly the 8th street floorshow cast). Besides performing as Riff in his younger days, Bill also does Eddie for RH. But performing in the weekly RHPS is only the tip of the iceberg where Bill is concerned. He has a lot more involvement in the scene - let's see if we can list them all.

First, Bill used to run the international RHPS fanzine "Crazed Imaginations", which has been famous for its original RHPS related stories. C.I. has since been passed on to his close friends, Ruth Fink-Winter and Gene Chiovari, but Bill still writes his stories every month. His writings have also appear in many other fanzines around the world over the years. Bill is an avid fan of the RH conventions and goes to as many of them as possible. He is also one of the founding members of the Official Shock Treatment fan club, and is casting director for the Official Shock Treatment Cast (which performs at all conventions) and performs in S.T. as Bert Schnick (to whom he bares as uncanny resemblance to). Bill has also directed and promoted his own Rocky Horror shows in various Greenwich Village nightclubs over the years, featuring his cast and other casts in the NY-NJ-PA area. On top of all that, Bill has also run a RHPS convention of his own in NYC (with the help of his best buds Mad Man Mike and Alicia "Quad" Wallace). Bill is also a social butterfly and has many friends in casts all over the world. And to add to THAT, Bill is also on friendly personal terms with both Nell Campbell and Richard O'Brien (If that isn't a RH fan's dream come true, I don't know what is!) Bill is well known for his friendly attitude, command of RHPS trivia, and his ability to put away vast amounts of alcohol and "smokables".

Let's see, what else? Bill was once a very successful promoter for various clubs in NYC and is still a permanent fixture at The Vault and Hellfire (both S&M clubs) where he can usually be found with a beer in one hand and a pretty girl (bound and gagged) in the other. Dubbed "one of the most delishful Rocky Horror people" by Sal. Bill enjoys a reputation of being, well, delightful and fair and far holding the RH population in general as a sort of extended family. Bill is producing a book of RH fiction called "It Was Great When It All Began" and will be running another convention on the East Coast in the year 2000. Bill is also well known for his wonderful taste in ladies of Rocky Horror. Just ask him about Kate Pitroff of Tucson or Karen Majors of Boston casts and you can see how well he can sing the praises of a beautiful woman. Overall, Bill has fun. He hangs out with some cool people, always has a pretty girl on his lap, and always has a kind word for other RH fans. His only bit of advice is...

"Four shallows and one deep, over and over, works every time." and "The sun never sets on those who ride into it."

HOOPLA BILL, THE "GODFATHER" OF ROCKY HORROR!