Lance Croy will be a senior at Plymouth-Canton High School (Plymouth, MI) in the fall of 2004. After graduation he plans to pursue an acting career. Lance got his start from Uncle LaMarr Fields who encouraged him to give acting a shot. When Lance was cast in his very first play, The Carpenter for the Dearborn Heights Civic Theater, he was hooked.

Soon after, Lance began performing in many other community theatre projects including Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, where he was cast as the Chef; but Lance wanted to add more to the roll. Working closely with assistant director and friend Richard Marsh they developed a character that, with each stage entrance, would have a new crisis. Thus, the Crazy Chef was born. Lance would come out with his clothes spray painted black and shredded proclaiming that the kitchen blew up. Then several scenes later, he'd come out in a cloud of powder that would drape the auditorium in a white haze, because the Crazy Chef had added too much flour to the wedding cake.

It was that experience that really got Lance involved acting. Because he was given the chance to take a role that was just black and white on the script pages and add color to it, he was able to really make the character come alive.

But if he was going to do stage work seriously he needed training. So Lance joined the Northridge Church drama team. Headed by Anna West, Lance was taught the mechanics of being an actor, blocking, the arcs in the script, and of course character development. Soon Lance was performing in the weekend sketches that set up the pastor’s message.

Still doing live theater, Lance was cast in many plays such as A Christmas Carol playing Tiny Tim, Agatha Christie’s The Verdict, and teaming back up with Richard Marsh to make Skidding where Lance played the loveable not so bright Andy Hardy. That role landed Lance his first Dearborn Press and Guide P.A.G.E. award for "Outstanding Achievement by a Young Actor."

Lance then started to do professional work. He’s landed minor parts in commercials, and shot an educational film for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Starring in the promotional short What's a Verginean? for the feature film FIRST THINGS, was Lance’s biggest project to date, and he was thrilled to be a part of it. He hopes that the project will open many doors for himself and everyone involved.

(Lance wishes to thank everyone who made What's a Verginean? a success…from the cast, to the crew, to the talent agency, and of course Stan Williams who gave him this opportunity.)