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The first time I fell in love with theatre was when I was nine years old. I auditioned for "The King and I" and was cast as one of the King's many sons. I did not have any speaking lines but I had to memorize songs and blocking. I loved everything about the show, from rehearsal, to the other people involved, to the performance. Since then I have been in all of my middle school and high school productions and taken a theatre class every year of middle and high school (except freshman year when it was not offered at my school). For the past five years I've been an actor, apprentice, and counselor for the Theatrikids theatre camp over the summer. For one month, five days a week, I worked with children ages five to seventeen, to help them become better actors, and prepare for the show they put on at the end of four weeks.
For the past two years I've been part of an activist theatre group called PEACE Project (Prevention Education and Creative Expression). PEACE Project is made up of about twenty high school students in Flagstaff who travel around northern Arizona to high schools, juvenile detention centers, and community centers to perform skits about rape, domestic violence, and racism. We write our own skits and are trained by Northland Family Help Center social workers about how to communicate with and help victims of domestic and sexual violence.
I love my high school theatre department, but after Cherubs (as the National High School Institute is fondly known by its students), it is not as challenging or rigorous as I would like. I love working in any kind of theatre, but I can't wait to go to college where all the students in the department will take theatre as seriously as I do.

Acting is a huge interest of mine. It is my passion and what I want to do for the rest of my life. I hope to create a career in acting after I graduate from either DePaul University or The University of Arizona's acting program. One of my other major interests other than acting is music. I don't play an instrument, but I love listening to all kinds of music, and finding new artists and genres that I have never heard before.
I also love staying up to date with current events and politics. I read the Economist every week to keep up with international affairs.

I would love to become a star, but realistically I just want to do any kind of work as an actor. I have visited Chicago a couple times and absolutely love the city. After college I plan to try to work as an actor in one of the many theatres in the Chicago area.

1. Funny
2. Outgoing
3. Confident
4. Kind
5. Cooperative