"Be yourself, everyone else is taken." -Oscar Wilde
What a busy time it's been racing to the finish line known as gRadUatIon!!
I've been spending most of my time in the DC area as Guest Artist at various high school theaters for Fairfax County Public Schools. This gives me the great opportunity to jump-in for FCPS teachers and work with students across the county. I've really enjoyed doing scene work, improv, and really communicating the importance and simplicity of honesty in acting. When young actors through tools and exercises that I share lose their "stage voice" and actually genuinely speak, they are in shock--they've discovered acting and really living in an imaginary moment. They're connected and understand how specifics, simplicity, and subtly drive a scene and most importantly, tell a story. These revelations are rewarding and whether these young artists are going to be old artists one day, they're getting to know themselves.
"The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose."
~Richard Grant
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