One of the things I love about the theatre is that by going on the journey to discover what makes a character do what he or she does and why, we are led closer to discovering what makes us tick, and for kids this is especially important I think. It's a life lesson we can't teach, all art brings us closer to ourselves, but there is just something about live theatre.. it's special. It is one of the things that sent me off into the wild blue yonder and at the same time saved me from myself.
What is your deeply buried gift? Don’t think it’s not down there. It is. Something is going to help it rise to the surface. When I was a child, I dreamt of going to Hollywood and making movies. I remember specifically knowing what it must feel like to do that very thing, although I was in the middle of a rural ranchette in Texas. I carried around a video recorder the size of carry on luggage, which attached to a giant news station style camera, and I made movies. I can think of three or four different films that were lost forever in the 80’s. I remember shooting portraits of my cats sitting alongside cowboy hats, with a little 110 camera, and writing story after story and reading book after book. Talking into an old recorder with an English accent, singing at the top of my lungs as I played the piano. These are the snapshots of my childhood forty years ago. When I graduated from the theatre department at Baylor University, I was not ready emotionally and did...
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