Michael Smith, a studio manager, answered questions while working at Color Me Mine, a paint your own pottery studio in Burr Ridge.
Q: Where do you live?
A: Downers Grove. But I’m from Birmingham, Ala.
Q: How did you come to live here?
A: My wife and I met while we worked at a summer theater. It was the Stage Door Manor in an old resorts in the Catskills that they converted to a theater. My wife’s family is from here.
Q: Where did you do at the theater?
A: I was a set designer. My wife was a costume designer.
Q: What do you enjoy about working at Color Me Mine?
A: It’s lots of fun. You get a lot of people coming here to be creative and to create a memory.
Q: What is your favorite movie?
A: That’s hard to say. I’d probably have to say “The Big Lebowski.” I really like the Cohen Brothers and they use a lot of great music. It’s a good ensemble cast.
Q: Where is your next vacation?
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A: Sheboygan, Wis. We’ll be going up there to see my favorite musical artist, Jeff Tweety of Wilco. That was the first concert my wife and I ever went to.
Q: Is there any place you’d like to travel to?
A: My wife did a lot of mission work in high school and college. She went to Africa. There are several countries in Africa that I’d really like to go to.
Q: What is your wife’s name?
A: Molly Smith.
Q: What’s your favorite color?
A: Blue. Any shade of blue.
Q: What is your pet peeve?
A: People who aren’t polite to other people.
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