CHAPTER 14

Second Intermission

I first moved to New York City when I was 18 to attend New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts as an undergraduate drama major. Coming from a very small town in western Pennsylvania, the change was quite profound. At that time, I was also convinced that I wanted to be a musical theatre performer. I had mostly done musical theatre up to that point and wasn’t really considering any other field of performing arts.

NYU’s undergrad drama department was structured so that on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we were taking studio classes at one of five professional acting studios in the city that were affiliated ...

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