“Middle school.”
“Yeah. Middle school. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. We were in that show together. And I was like, “Oh my gosh, I recognize her name on the cast list and I went talk to her at school. I was like, “Are you in this show? No way. Me, too.” And then we still really didn’t see each other much at school.”
“And then I’d say our friendship was really solidified during MacBeth, at drama camp. Drama Camp was where we
decided we were for life best friends.”
“Well, Matilda was my favorite movie as a kid. I would watch it like literally every day. And so, Miss Honey was always like a character in my life that I had idealized. I was like, I want to be like her. And so, getting to play that part was just like a whole special experience. And getting to like work with all of the children. We had so many new families in that show and people who were new to me.”
“I did it because there was British accents in that show and I love playing a British character. I tried out a lot of theater programs when I was younger taking classes other places, but I stayed here because of the community. So, for me being like now part of like the staff and everything, it’s really important to me that we emphasize the community aspect. So, that’s really special that I get to have a say in that now.
“Absolutely. I agree. I’ve done theater at tons of places and nothing feels the way that first act feels just so connected and loving and accepting, especially because theater can be super like cutthroat and intense and competitive. It’s just in the nature of theater and I feel like we do as good a job as we can here to try to, you know, move past that. Eliminating comparison. I love emphasizing how we do with like a lot of the directors and the shows and stuff like eliminating comparison between kids and even like telling the kids that and that’s really special.”
