Friday, January 7, 2011

Ask Me: How to keep going?


Anonymous asked
In your career you must have had rough times? What convinced you to keep going? What was your "aha" moment?




My “a-ha” moment came when I was 17. I was playing Mephisto in a production of Goethe’s “Faust.” I was working my a** off day and night memorizing the outrageously complicated text, doing in-depth script analysis, doing physical work on the 4 primary character-representations that I would be playing (if you’ve never read the play, I recommend it - its excellent) and vocal work because the theater we would be performing in was HUGE. And all that on top of my 12th grade finals. I collapsed from exhaustion...

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