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Guy Wagner Obituary

Graduation Year Class of 1978
Date of Passing Oct 27, 2016
About Guy Scott Wagner, a Buffalo actor and stagehand known for his onstage intensity and dedication to the craft, died Thursday in Buffalo General Hospital after suffering complications from a recent surgery. He was 56.

Mr. Wagner, a onetime bartender and bodybuilder known for playing toughs, was a fixture on local stages through much of the 1990s and into the 2000s. He appeared most recently in the Irish Classical Theatre Company's production of "Outside Mullingar" in 2015.

Guy Scott Wagner was born on Jan. 10, 1960 in Huntington, on Long Island. He attended Walt Whitman High School in nearby Huntington Station and went on to earn his bachelor's degree from the University at Buffalo and his master of fine arts from Temple University in Philadelphia.

After moving to Buffalo in the 1980s, Mr. Wagner worked as a bartender at the Central Park Grill, the mental health facility Renaissance House and as a longtime company member of Theatre for Change, an improvisational theater company that conducts skill-building workshops for businesses.
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