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I did some plays in high school which I had a good time doing.

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

I went to university in the north of England at University of Birmingham to do an English literature degree, and I knew I could do extracurricular stuff with theater and drama. I started a theater company, called Article 19, and I did it with a bunch of friends. I wrote and directed plays. I had a radio show.

I pretty much spent my twenties as a musician and taking acting classes. I loved it. I was at UCLA getting As and Bs in English and creative writing, basically trying to stay out of the Army. All I really wanted to do was play music.

I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.