Tape Face: the story of his success…
He appears on stage dressed in a striped tee shirt, a tongue-in-cheek nod to the legion of mime artists inspired by Marcel Marceau, paired with baggy trousers and a jacket, and carrying a battered satchel. His hair is half spiked up and half slicked down, his eyes are wide and he looks around almost as if he doesn’t know how he got there.
But Christchurch’s Sam Wills … The Boy With Tape on His Face … or Tape Face as he’s now known, is taking the world by storm, this week making it into the Finals round of America’s Got Talent Season 11 and becoming a YouTube sensation.
A fortnight earlier, he was in Edinburgh, a familiar venue, for the Fringe Festival.
He didn’t perform this year, in fact it’s been four years since he has had a full show at the Fringe, but he was back in Edinburgh supporting his wife Felicity, who performed as Lili la Scala in Another F—ing Variety Show, offering some sage wisdom to new comedians, presenting the Fringe Welcome Address and screening his documentary Not Out Of Norway Yet. Read more…
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/stage-and-theatre/83848049/tape-face-the-story-of-his-success