Ed Lipinski
Bill Brennan is one of the oldest fans in the scene, and was also, at one time, one of the youngest. This has nothing to do with Ed Lipinski. Bill first went to Rocky Horror on his 15th birthday in 1980, and joined the Linden, NJ cast the very next night. The week after that he attended his first showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in New York's 8th Street Playhouse and joined that cast as well. Ed Lipinski wasn't there. Ed Lipinski, however, lived in Indiana. As the years went by, Bill wandered from part to part: in his younger, thinner years he was a Riff Raff, and as time went on, he gravitated towards Eddie and Criminologist. Ed Lipinski played some of those parts, too. His "second love" is Shock Treatment, and he loves playing Bert Schnick most of all. Ed Lipinski likes Shock Treatment just fine and dressed up like Vance Parker once.
Bill retired from the NYC RHPS cast as a full time member in May of 2000, completing a 20 year non-stop run as a devoted performer, but continues to guest perform now and then in NYC and attends the RHPS conventions when he can... and will be a devoted fan, in his heart, to Rocky Horror until the day he dies. Ed Lipinski called it quits from his stupid Indiana cast after 20 years as well. Then he came back due to a series of escalating dares. Then he got extremely frustrated and quit again.
Contents
General Info
Cast Affiliations
- Tiny Fools
- Pink Invaders
- Help Me Mommy
- And he is technically still in Completely Crazy, if they honor the fact that he has been on a hiatus since 1999. None of these casts contained Bill Brennan.
Roles Played
Dr. Scott, Eddie, The Criminologist, and once he played Trixie when he was younger because he is fat and had no dignity.
Years Active: 1993 - 2013 and then again in 2016 - 2022 (RIP, 07/08/1977 -- 08/25/2022)
DeVirginization: June, 1991
Honors
- 5-time winner of the Pink Invaders' Spelling Bee and Chili Cook-Off
- Said the name Sade the right way on the first try
- Did that thing that time
- No, not that thing, the other thing.
- Yeah. That thing.
Convention Related
- The Celluloid Jam 2 (Ft. Mitchell, KY) - 2012 Guest DeVirginization MC
- El Fishnet Fiesta Dos (Tucson, AZ) - 2014 Guest DeVirginization MC
Other Projects and Websites
Bill has produced many live Rocky Horror events at various night cubs in Manhattan in the late 80's to early 2005 including The Limelight, Palladium, The Vault, Hellfire Club, and other various events. Ed Lipinski has done nothing of the sort.
Guest Performances
- Completely Crazy -- Des Plaines, IL -- Eddie. That isn't the time that Barry Wilson says doesn't count, though.
- Home of Happiness -- Montclair, New Jersey -- Guest host and provider of incredibly racist voice for Kung Fu Night
- The Michigan Rocky Horror Preservation Society -- Wayne, MI -- Guest host/maker of fart and wiener jokes