I am an artist because I am in love with the art of playing on stage. I have come to the understanding that to be a good actor, I don’t have to have the perfect blocking or line reading. It’s about living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. I try not to think about my physicality, whether or not I’m getting the message across to the audience, and being aware of things that I shouldn’t be. As long...

I will benefit from Rutgers not only from the training but also from the variety of people that I will meet. Being enrolled at Interlochen Arts Academy for four years, I have come to notice that the majority of learning and inspiration comes from the people who surround me. The number of things I’ve learned from my classmates and people from other majors is immense. I come from a culture where family is a big and important thing, and...

Alumni Kersti Bryan and Daniel Amboyer from Carnegie Mellon/Interlochen Arts Academy visited our campus a couple of days ago. It was incredibly refreshing to have professional actors come to our campus and work with us. I could tell that they are still experiencing that desperate desire of wanting to play on stage. Their eagerness to work with us and try all sorts of new things was inspiring. They said that was something encouraged during their classes in college, and...

One of my favorite pieces comes from the musical “In the Heights”, consisting of Cubans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans all living in Washington Heights, New York. The piece is called “Everything I Know”, sung by the character Nina. Nina is the first in her family to go to college, the “one who made it out”, but ended up dropping out of Stanford and disappointing everyone. I’m the first one of my entire family who got to study in...

What’s so unique about Sarah Lawrence College is the variety of options and schedule flexibility a student has with in their chosen major. Haley Robinson is a dancer enrolled in Sarah Lawrence, and in one of her writing classes, she is writing an essay on the idea of muscle memory. I thought it was so enjoyable how she could introduce her major into her academic courses and research topics she is extremely interested in. The BA Theatre program at...

Our theater department was planning to perform the play by Frederick Durrenmatt’s “The Visit”. Two days before auditioning, we learned that we did not have the rights to the play. Our director, Gulsherin Dubash, decided to combine “The Visit,” “Ubu Roi” and “The Inspector General.” By having three hour rehearsals every day for a play that has not been written yet, we began to create a theatre piece. We choose keywords from all three plays, such as justice, greed...