Jack Weld
Jack Weld is theater critic Ira Drew in It’s Only a Play. Jack made his Studio Players debut earlier this year in the role of Virgil in William Inge’s Bus Stop.
Jack has performed in plays and musicals in Fort Myers and Naples since 2003. Weld was last seen playing multiple roles in The Naples Players’ production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Jack also appeared
at TNP in Something Rotten, Les Miserables, The Producers, Guys and Dolls, She Loves Me, The Music Man, Footloose, Young Frankenstein and The Producers.
At the Laboratory Theater of Florida, Jack has appeared in the role of corrupt Judge Turpin’s greasy lackey, Beadle Bamford, in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (the show that originally inspired 
Weld’s foray into the realm of community theater when he appeared in it back in Maryland in 2000), Edwin Bates in Lab Theater’s summer spoof Whatever Happened to Baby Jane: A Parody of the Horror, Senator Joe Cantwell’s campaign manager, Don Blades, in The Best Man, Stage Kiss, Mr. van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank, Kit Kat boy Viktor in Lab’s 2015 smash hit Cabaret, Glengarry Glen Ross, In the Next Room and The Laramie Project.
Jack 
was also in the chorus of La Boheme with Opera Naples and has performed at Stage 88.
Jack also has Shakespearean chops, having performed in the roles of Sebastian in The Tempest (Lab Theater), Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, and benevolent lovesick Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew.
November 12, 2021; updated July 28, 2024.
About the Author
Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.