If you're a drama major, did you do summer programs?

Times3
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:28:00 +0000

^My son did have a bit of that “step backwards” feeling in terms of coming home and working with his school theater teacher (whom we love–but he’s had the same teacher since 3rd grade). He clung to the coaching and new ways of thinking and working that he’d acquired at BUSTI, and I’m 100% sure that it had a huge impact on his audition process. On the plus side, he was a strong collaborator in our school theater program and felt more confident about acting as a senior leader when he assisted the director in the fall play and had the lead in the winter musical (hadn’t done either of those things before). And while he ultimately has decided on a smaller program, he learned a lot from BU in terms of the kinds of teaching he responds to, how much work and focus are required, and how to take risks as an actor and artist. I think they grow up a lot in a program like this, and in many ways (not just artistically).