Why

[scarfman]

Inspired by this by demiurgent. Begun as a comment there, but then I realized that this doesn't belong in someone else's blog.

When I was in high school the big name in local community theatre came to talk to my acting class and started off by telling us each to write down in one sentence why we wanted to be an actor. My reaction was, "In one sentence? Are you crazy?" I don't remember what I wrote down. She read them all aloud and I don't recall that she liked any of them.

Since that woman talked to my high school acting class I've been Teddy Brewster and Nick Bottom, done the Players' Workshop year course at Second City, acted and directed for Moebius Theatre, played the archbishop in Tosca, re-did the Mel Brooks part in Free To Be You And Me: Boy Meets Girl for my high school's variety show's anniversary show, and uploaded a half a dozen animated cartoons onto the web; and I still haven't finished demonstrating why I want to be an actor.