I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.
The highlight of my undergraduate years was a year-long Shakespeare course I took with Edward Tayler.
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 was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.
I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I was strong and could lift things, I could move scenery about.
I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it.