VIDEO: Back Stage Readers Featured on '30 Rock' Season Premiere

In '09, Back Stage readers Bob Leonard was featured within our weekly "Who Got the Part?" column after he was cast as part of the Timeless Torches, a dance team for that WNBA's NY Liberty. So imagine our excitement whenever we saw him and also the relaxation from the Timeless Torches within the season six premiere episode of "30 Rock," which broadcast The month of january 12 on NBC.Within the episode, entitled "Dance Like No one's Watching," Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) finds out why Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) is all of a sudden such good spirits: She's became a member of the Timeless Torches, the over-40 volunteer dance team that works at Liberty home games. The ballroom dancers were seen through the episode, in moments with Fey as well as in direct addresses towards the camera within the show's final minutes."Ms. Fey was warm, friendly, and gracious, along with a regular trooper if this found obtaining the dance routine," Leonard states from the experience. "The '30 Rock' crew was totally professional and useful in each and every imaginable way."Leonard is really a upon the market middle-school math teacher who started his acting career only a couple of years back, as he began reading through Back Stage and attended Back Stage's annual Actorfest NY event in 2008. He saw a casting notice for that Timeless Torches at the spine Stage, and made the decision to pull out his dance moves to audition. Now Leonard is really a Screen Stars Guild member, because of the team's unpredicted appearance on prime time network television."Once we rode around the subway going home," Leonard recalls, "it had been just like a brunch of faculty kids who just did an excellent play and everybody loved their performance. Everyone was delighted with every part of the knowledge.InchFollowing studying with acting coach Tom Todoroff and generating his SAG card, Leonard has become proud to express, "I'm an actress.Inch He has additionally been hired being an extra within an approaching feature film, directed by James Grey ("We Own the Evening," "Two Enthusiasts"). Leonard was fitted for 2 background roles, one like a "hero" inside a tavern scene and also the other like a "churchgoer," within the 20's-era film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, and Marion Cotillard.This really is Leonard's third season like a Timeless Torch dancer. The Timeless Torches are scheduled to do in the approaching Knicks home games on Feb 6 and Feb 29 at Madison Square Garden in New york city.Find out more about how exactly Bob Leonard grew to become a dancer for that Timeless Torches on BackStage.com. Watch Tina Fey's message towards the Timeless Torches and look for behind-the-moments footage in the episode within this video: