My freshman year of college was a time of discovery. I learned a lot that year about acting, directing, tech, etc. One of the most important lessons I learned that year actually didn’t happen at college. It happened two towns over at my old High School. I went back in the afternoons and was a
Back when I used to teach high school every Friday was a test day. There were forty-two minutes in a class period, which meant that by the time we sat down, did attendance, etc. there were roughly 35-40 minutes remaining to take the test. The room would go silent and, as the minutes ticked by,
As an English major you take a lot of classes about just the text of famous literature and, often, the very first class you take that deals with this is Literary Criticism. It’s a class about the different ways people have looked at literature over the years and often involves reading articles that make you
One of my first jobs when I moved to NY was teaching high school. They say if you can teach in NYC and survive then anywhere else is a piece of cake. After the first few days of year one, I agreed wholeheartedly. In that first year, I had cornflakes thrown at me, broke up
During undergrad I had the good fortune of being hired each summer to teach at a theatre camp for aspiring performers. Many of my students were in middle or high school and came to the camp hoping to get the education they needed to launch their acting careers. One of the things I had to
We’re often told that a little healthy competition is a good thing. The problem is that competition almost never stays little or healthy. In competition, we’re stuck playing the game “King of the Dock.” We push someone into the water so we can be on the dock and then we do everything we can to
When I was a kid, one of the things I really loved was going outside and playing catch with my friends. Whenever one of us got a new ball we’d run out to the parking lot next to my house and toss the ball back and forth. Sometimes I’d catch it, sometimes I’d drop it,
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