fandom snowflake challenge: day five
I know, I know. ._. I'm really awful at daily memes. I had a hard time with this because when I try to think of things I'm passionate about, it all seems to come back to fandom.
('skipped' days 3 and 4 because they involved things that aren't really postable. I've actually met a couple new people in the past few days, so it's all good!)
But okay.
In your own space, share something non-fannish you are passionate about with your fannish friends.
I just don't exactly know what to say about it.
In High School, I had one extracurricular activity that really kept me going through-out the four years, and that was Acting. I was in several plays (some for High School, some for our local Community Theatre). I played Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream. I had two roles in a stage production of The Little Prince. I was in productions of All in the Timing and Noises Off and Huckleberry Finn.
But it wasn't just acting. I stage managed a production of Harvey. I wrote and directed a series of short scenes for my Acting 3/4 class. I was regularly in charge of the building of set pieces (as I was the only theatre regular who also had passed both semesters of Technology and thus had a pass to use the power tools), plus design. I helped Choreograph dances for both Midsummers and our production of Tempest. I attended the Oregon State Acting Competition three years in a row.
When I went to college (for one sad pathetic expensive year), I was the only member of my graduating class to go to Southern Oregon University, which is notable as the only college in the United States to offer a major in Shakespeare Studies, and they very purposefully groom their theatre students for apprenticeships and work at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Originally when I went to college, I intended to double major in Theatre (Performance) and Composition (Creative). I wanted to parley that into screen writing/playwrighting. And there's a part of me who still wants to be a playwright/screen writer. There's a part of me that loves to direct. I still yearn for the stage in any and all ways. Theatre is kind of my thing.
I have a favorite playwright (Nicky Silver) and a favorite of his plays (Raised in Captivity).
I want to go back to it. I really do. I wish I could be a Theatre teacher of some kind, but I have no idea whether that's a viable life choice at this point in history. I just wish I could be for a group of kids what my acting teacher was for us. He gave us a place to be ourselves. There were no lines, no divisions. The 'Acting' group was split between dorks and nerds and athletes and cheerleaders and everything in between. But when we were together, we were the Theatre Kids, and it was us against the world. Sometimes, the way to deal with the problems in your own head is to get out of it, get into someone else's head for a little while. Stand on stage with the lights flooding your eyes, but you don't have to be you. You are your character.
Plus being a director is like small-scale Godliness.
I miss it. A lot.
So. That's something I'm passionate about that isn't fandom related.
This entry was originally posted at http://trey.dreamwidth.org/2261.html. Comment wherever.
('skipped' days 3 and 4 because they involved things that aren't really postable. I've actually met a couple new people in the past few days, so it's all good!)
But okay.
In your own space, share something non-fannish you are passionate about with your fannish friends.
I just don't exactly know what to say about it.
In High School, I had one extracurricular activity that really kept me going through-out the four years, and that was Acting. I was in several plays (some for High School, some for our local Community Theatre). I played Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream. I had two roles in a stage production of The Little Prince. I was in productions of All in the Timing and Noises Off and Huckleberry Finn.
But it wasn't just acting. I stage managed a production of Harvey. I wrote and directed a series of short scenes for my Acting 3/4 class. I was regularly in charge of the building of set pieces (as I was the only theatre regular who also had passed both semesters of Technology and thus had a pass to use the power tools), plus design. I helped Choreograph dances for both Midsummers and our production of Tempest. I attended the Oregon State Acting Competition three years in a row.
When I went to college (for one sad pathetic expensive year), I was the only member of my graduating class to go to Southern Oregon University, which is notable as the only college in the United States to offer a major in Shakespeare Studies, and they very purposefully groom their theatre students for apprenticeships and work at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Originally when I went to college, I intended to double major in Theatre (Performance) and Composition (Creative). I wanted to parley that into screen writing/playwrighting. And there's a part of me who still wants to be a playwright/screen writer. There's a part of me that loves to direct. I still yearn for the stage in any and all ways. Theatre is kind of my thing.
I have a favorite playwright (Nicky Silver) and a favorite of his plays (Raised in Captivity).
I want to go back to it. I really do. I wish I could be a Theatre teacher of some kind, but I have no idea whether that's a viable life choice at this point in history. I just wish I could be for a group of kids what my acting teacher was for us. He gave us a place to be ourselves. There were no lines, no divisions. The 'Acting' group was split between dorks and nerds and athletes and cheerleaders and everything in between. But when we were together, we were the Theatre Kids, and it was us against the world. Sometimes, the way to deal with the problems in your own head is to get out of it, get into someone else's head for a little while. Stand on stage with the lights flooding your eyes, but you don't have to be you. You are your character.
Plus being a director is like small-scale Godliness.
I miss it. A lot.
So. That's something I'm passionate about that isn't fandom related.
This entry was originally posted at http://trey.dreamwidth.org/2261.html. Comment wherever.