The Trish Watkins Story

Trish Abigail Watkins was born in the small town of Farmingtondale, Iowa in the late Indian Summer of 1974 during a freak hailstorm which lasted over six days. Because of the three feet build up of ice balls throughout the town her parents couldn’t make it to the hospital and she was born in a small, freezing barn. No one ever addressed why she wasn’t born in the warm farmhouse where her father (an Obgyn) and her aunt (a mid-wife) were watching the Chicago Bears play the Baltimore Colts.

In her early years she showed promises of leading a life in the limelight. By age three she was crowned Little Miss Soybean and Miss Corn Husk 1977. As Trish became more and more confidant in her pageant work she stretched her talents and traveled to the north shore area in Massachuset where she is still known as Miss Clam Chick 1979, 80 & 82. 1981 was a tough year for Trish as she had a personal battle with her allergy to mollusks.

After packing her bags and heading to the "Big Time" as Trish would refer to rural Maryland, she arrived in Burtonsville and gave a call to her personal friend, Jack Kent Cooke. Jack used to be her private tap dance tutor while Trish was in the eighth grade at Alan Hale, Jr. Intermediate School. Jack had since made his fortune when he developed a vaccine for premature baldness in infants and used his millions to purchase the Washington Redskins. Trish told Jack that she was ready to shake her pom poms for him like she used to do after their tutoring sessions.

During her years as a Redskinette, Trish dated many personalities and well known athletes. She could be seen on the arm of Joe Theisman, John Riggins and Jimmy J.J. "Dynamite" Walker to name a few. After many trysts Trish found herself in the motherly way and gave birth to the joy of her life, Kevin "Michael Jordan, Sonny Jurgensen, Michael Caine, Doug "Magic Man" Henning" Watkins. "It was tough naming Kevin because of obvious reasons" said Trish as she left her first audition at the now defunct Burn Brae Dinner Theater. "I’ve always wanted to perform on the same stage where Jim Lawson portrayed General #3 in Evita, I mean who hasn’t?" That was the beginning of Trish Watkins " Follow Jim Lawson Tour".

Over the last decade Trish has followed Jim to the Burn Brae, the West End and the Lazy Susan Dinner Theater (affectionately known as the Lazy Lawson Dinner Theater or LSD Theater). Unfortunately Trish has always been a day late because Jim had moved onto other projects by the time Ms. Watkins arrived at the theaters.

It took the unlikely pair of lovely Tina DeSimone and the unflappable Mark Minnick to actually bring Jim and Trish face to face for the first time at Mark’s recent 52nd birthday soiree. With the aide of a bottle of fine red wine and the fourth order of fried mozzarella, Jim and Trish played a game of "footsie" under the table. At least Jim thought he was enjoying the game with Trish until she excused herself to the restroom, the amorous stare and gleam on Anita O’Leary’s face told Jim who was on the receiving end of his talented toes. Jim has had to change his phone number because of the constant calls, day and night, from the octogenarian O’Leary. Anita has even purchased a laptop just to email actormann@aol.com. Email blocking has been a god-send for Mr. Lawson.

What will become of their new friendship? (No, not the Anita friendship... gosh) Where will this lead? Only the gods know what lay in store for these two talented, personable and attractive stars.