Description: Gary Tipton majored in speech and drama and studied vocal music at East Tennessee State University. He spent ten years as an elementary school teacher in Rockville, Maryland and appeared in dinner theatre productions in Washington DC. Gary owned a restaurant in Chicago briefly in the 1970s. By 1984, he was living in Louisville, working as an artist and model. His initial audition at the Printing House was in 1985 and he stills reads for APH today.