Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time.
I do theater as much as possible, but it's very difficult to manage for me.
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
Theater was something that I always wanted to study.
That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.
I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.
A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.
There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.