I was a mime. I'm not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.
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I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.
I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.
I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.
I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.
I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.
I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.
I could have become a mime or a juggler, but I became a singer-songwriter instead.
When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
I always loved to dance and move. I probably should have been a mime or something like that.
I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.
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