I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.
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I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.
I grew up doing musical theater.
I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school, and then I got music scholarships throughout my education. And that's what I was going to do. And then I took a left turn and went to drama school and became an actor.
My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.
While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
I was heavily involved in musical theater.
I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.
I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.
I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.
I was involved with my theater program in high school, and I was involved in a festival where I could audition for a lot of different schools.