Major: Directing and Dramatic Literature, with a Literature minor.
Year: Junior
Hometown: Virginia Beach
How are you involved on campus?
“I’m an area manager for the Ferguson. I’m in Improvacatuers. But most of my time is spent here [in the Theater Library as the Head Librarian]. I was also Assisttant Director for ‘Noises Off,’ and stage mangaged ‘Don Quixote,’ and stange managed ‘Macbeth.'”
What are some of your career goals?
“Let’s see… well, I love directing; that’s what I really love to do. But I also love stage management, and my goal is to start out managing for a cruise company or something. Obviously Broadway is the dream, but if I never get there, I’d be happy just working in a company somewhere.”
What got you interested in theatre?
“Well I did it in high school. I was very quiet and shy as a teenager. I had my best friend and aquaintances, like it wasn’t bad, just different. So I auditioned and didn’t really think it would work, but I did it and I loved it! There’s this adrenaline you can’t get enough of. The community made me want to be a theater major. You get so close to these professors. Other majors don’t really get that. We spend so much more time together than we probably should (laughs). You’re here in classes at 9 until rehearsal ends at 11 at night. And then you go home and you live with them. You can’t get away from these people (laughs). There’s this love and it’s not just the students, it’s the professors too.”
Favorite Play/Musical and why?
“Ohh, that’s hard. I don’t think I have a fave, but I do go through phases. My current favorite is ‘Light in the Piazza.’ It’s a very small cast. The score is beautiful! This girl gets a head injury by being kicked in the head by a horse. She’s disoriented, and goes to Italy with her mother and falls in love with a guy, but of course she’s very flighty. It’s a cute romance. I love it so much.”
What is something you’d like people to know about you?
“I live in the Ferguson. Come see ‘Macbeth’ in the spring.”
Favorite theater memory: “I don’t know if I have one. Something that’s really special is before every show, you’re called two minutes before the curtain goes up. And in the two minutes everyone is silent and looking at each other, mouthing ‘Break a leg.” The energy; I live for that moment of anticipation. There’s no way to describe or recreate that because you’re about to share this beautiful moment with the audience that you’ve worked so hard on for so long.”