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Personal Statement
I should not be nervous about spilling my guts to complete strangers. I'm an actress, it
is what I do. Yet I find it harder to be myself a lot of times then to play a role that is
handed to me in a script. To play a character that has been created, tailored, defined and
to interpret who that character is, is so much easier then creating, tailoring and defining
myself. However, my story is not finished, the act is not over, and the lights have yet to
fade.
I cannot say that I know exactly who I am, and at seventeen things are just beginning
to make sense. I do know that I am three things: A student, an actress, and a "techie". Yes,
its true. I flirt with the dark side of theatre. Some actresses would not be seen in black
clothing lurking around back stage, or in the lighting booth waiting for the next sound or
light cue to come up. Oh, but I love it. I volunteer at the Community Theatre down the
street from my highschool, and over the course of three years have become the number
one " go to" person when the adult theatre has needed someone to step in and run the light
board, or operate the stereo system.
Though I spend a great deal of time at the theatre, I have no misconception of being a
Hollywood actress or having my name in lights on Broadway. My name on a chalk board
is all my future holds. However, I do hope to be remembered. No, not by my teachers or
my peers, but a generation yet to come. Before I can play my part as an actress I must
learn my lines. And if I am the first in the cast to do so, I help teach others theirs. And
once on stage I see the hard work pay off. It is that feeling of pride that tells me to teach.
So on the brink of a new act I find myself standing on my partially dimmed stage.
The lights come up on my character one by one, but the light that shines brightest is the
one on my career. It is this light that I walk toward, learning and actin along the way. I
have come to find that the truth in Shakespeare's line " All the world a stage, and the men
and women merely players," is more then true. So act on.
I should not be nervous about spilling my guts to complete strangers. I'm an actress, it
is what I do. Yet I find it harder to be myself a lot of times then to play a role that is
handed to me in a script. To play a character that has been created, tailored, defined and
to interpret who that character is, is so much easier then creating, tailoring and defining
myself. However, my story is not finished, the act is not over, and the lights have yet to
fade.
I cannot say that I know exactly who I am, and at seventeen things are just beginning
to make sense. I do know that I am three things: A student, an actress, and a "techie". Yes,
its true. I flirt with the dark side of theatre. Some actresses would not be seen in black
clothing lurking around back stage, or in the lighting booth waiting for the next sound or
light cue to come up. Oh, but I love it. I volunteer at the Community Theatre down the
street from my highschool, and over the course of three years have become the number
one " go to" person when the adult theatre has needed someone to step in and run the light
board, or operate the stereo system.
Though I spend a great deal of time at the theatre, I have no misconception of being a
Hollywood actress or having my name in lights on Broadway. My name on a chalk board
is all my future holds. However, I do hope to be remembered. No, not by my teachers or
my peers, but a generation yet to come. Before I can play my part as an actress I must
learn my lines. And if I am the first in the cast to do so, I help teach others theirs. And
once on stage I see the hard work pay off. It is that feeling of pride that tells me to teach.
So on the brink of a new act I find myself standing on my partially dimmed stage.
The lights come up on my character one by one, but the light that shines brightest is the
one on my career. It is this light that I walk toward, learning and actin along the way. I
have come to find that the truth in Shakespeare's line " All the world a stage, and the men
and women merely players," is more then true. So act on.