Jeff Clothier

Iowa native Jeff Clothier (b. 1961) is an artistic jack-of-all-trades, having worked as a musician (woodwinds), singer, teacher, stage actor and director, as well as having an occasional gig as a film actor in the low-budget productions of his friend, writer-director Scott Allen Nollen. During the late 1970s, Clothier sang and played saxophones in the Midwestern dance quintet "Together," along with Nollen on drums, guitarist Craig Nance, bassist-vocalist Gary Keller, and keyboardist-vocalist-arranger-van driver Steve Lawson. In 1997, Clothier and Nollen, during a flight to visit Sara Jane Karloff (the daughter of Boris) in California, co-wrote a fact-based comic screenplay for "Together: The Motion Picture," but this "epic" was never realized. Clothier, who now lives in Des Moines, is also known as "The Kosher Cowboy" and "The Richard Belzer of Harlan, Iowa."