For twenty four years now, in over two thousand performances from Leningrad University in Russia to Piper’s Opera House in Virginia City, McAvoy Layne has been preeminent, in preserving the wit & wisdom of “The Wild Humorist of the Pacific Slope,” Mark Twain. Says McAvoy, “It’s like being a Monday through Friday preacher, whose sermon, though not reverently pious, is fervently American.” McAvoy is the ghost of Samuel Clemens in A&E’s biography of Mark Twain, and in the Discovery Channel’s Cronkite Award winning documentary, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and is a winner of the Nevada award for excellence in school and library service. McAvoy and his wife, Rebecca are proprietors of The Mark Twain Cultural Center in Incline Village, NV, providing live theater, live music and living history to the Tahoe Basin.