Category: Personal
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Why Acting isn’t Therapy Even Though it Feels Amazing
Why Acting Isn’t Therapy Even Though it Feels Amazing I had the great good fortune to hear an actor speak last year who said something to the effect of, “when I stopped using acting as an opportunity to express myself, that’s when I became an actor.” And that– whoooo- I felt that. I felt that… Read more
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Rejecting Hope, Choosing Dionysus, and Acting in Good Faith
When I was taking my requisite Humanities class in college, we pulled topics out of a hat and had to deliver an impromptu two minute speech to the class. I was assigned: “hope.” I thought I was sooo subversive for my hot take that hope was actually a bad thing. For context, I was in… Read more