My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.
My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.
I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.
My father was a writer and an acting teacher.
I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Catholic University of America in D.C. and started working as an understudy at the Arena.
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.