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I've only ever acted once, while I was in college. I had a small role in *Leave It to Psmith* as a shrill, uptight young man. I'm too much of a smirker to be a good actor, but I thoroughly enjoyed that experience. Gave the director a heart attack early on, though, when I gave myself a buzz cut after landing the role. "It'll grow back," I cluelessly assured him.

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I didn’t know there was a play! That would be delightful.

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It was a delightful and very funny play. Highly recommended.

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I was in theater in high school along with choir and show choir. I experienced some disappointment with choir. People used to tell me that I sang well and I attended summer camps, practiced, and gave it all I had, but I could never make State. After years of auditioning and seeing people who couldn’t sing particularly well make it, I started to realize that maybe I was being sent a message. I started to feel like whatever gift I had, was a gift meant for God. It wasn’t about me and maybe when I tried to make it about me it was lessened. So I dedicated myself to singing clearly and all the verses at church. I also sing for and with my children and I am pretty convinced that is what I am supposed to do with it. My singing also landed me my husband, and that is no small thing.

I really enjoy going to see shows, though I don’t see as many as I would like. We had season tickets once in the Goldilocks window of not having children yet and having some spare money. It was fun. Last year we had the fantastic opportunity to take all of our children to see The Lion King musical. It is one of my favorites and one I vowed to take my children to one day if we ever had any. It was a dream come true.

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"I started to realize that maybe I was being sent a message. I started to feel like whatever gift I had, was a gift meant for God. It wasn’t about me and maybe when I tried to make it about me it was lessened."

This. This is so good.

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One of my favorite acting memories was the opportunity to be a “singing wife” in The King and I in high school (the “singing wives” were differentiated from the “dancing wives”). It was a huge cast and production, absolutely marvelous. Lots of dreams of more, but we just had a small college skit group, and then it was church musicals that were mostly choir. I realized at some point that while I could hold a tune, my gift was not song and theater, and I’d better focus on what I excelled in ☺️. I do enjoy watching these days!

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I've never really acted, but I enjoy being in the audience. I've seen Fiddler on the Roof (in NYC), Hamilton (in Chicago), and The Lion King (in Cincinnati). I loved all of them. I also love watching Shakespeare plays (Macbeth was my favorite out of the ones I've seen live) and murder mystery plays.

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I'm more of a Hamlet girl myself but Macbeth is pretty sweet too. The best Shakespeare I ever saw was a production of Twelfth Night that was set during the 1960s.

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I double majored in Creative Writing and Theatre Arts in the secret hope that theatre classes could replace my humanities requirements. I was tired of writing academic papers and ached for hands-on creative practice. Because of this I had to take a couple acting classes and audition for roles at my small college, and though I adored being part of productions (yay propsmaster!), I definitely didn't want to act any more than I had to. One memorable scene had no dialogue: my partner played Helen Keller and I played her teacher, Anne Sullivan. But my favorite class ever was scenic design. I think I loved scenic design even more than Shakespeare and Homer put together. Oof. After college I worked in the box office at the Olney outside Washington DC. My favorite shows there were 1776 and Peter Pan (he had blue hair! and flew!!). Nothing will ever top getting to see Les Mis (London 2004), but Phantom of the Opera (NYC 2005) came close. Newsies is my favorite show of all, and I've seen it on tour but also love the Disney movie, and earlier this year saw a local high school production which was, y'know, high school, but the gymnists were incredible!! And a lot of actors were actually the age of the characters, unlike the broadway version.

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I was in The Miracle Worker! I was one of the blind girls at the school Anne came from.

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I used to want to be in theatre and now am I proud and happy audience member! Loved your take on this, Kori.

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I did a little bit of college theatre! I played Dorine in "Tartuffe" by Molière and I also did a few student films for my school's annual film festival. These days, my performances are limited to dramatic readings of middle-grade fiction for the benefit of my two kids.

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