Theatre Major

Being a BA theatre major has been such a great experience. Regent really helps performers define who they are as actors and define who they are as Christians in the performing world. What I've learned most being here so far has been how to set up boundaries as a Christian performer and stand by them.

Continuing Education

Coming back to school after a two year break was very scary at first because I felt so far behind from all the people I graduated with, but God showed me that my timing here was perfect. And he has let me meet such wonderful people who have been where I'm at and they encouraged me. And once you're in the classes, you see that there are people of all ages and degrees and that age doesn't matter so much.

Christian Education

I use to say that I would never go to a Christian University because I thought they would be so strict and uptight. Also I didn't think a Christian University would be able to teach me theatre the way I needed it to be taught. Regent completely changed my perspective. They have a wonderful program and they really encourage us in our walk with God and show us how to co-exist in the world as a Christian.

Theatre Degree

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Finals.. this is what happens after late nights

The past couple weeks have been kind of crazy, not gonna lie. Between shows and finals and papers and getting close to people, I’ve really treasured these last couple of weeks. God’s been teaching me things about myself and…. I’ve really been in a place. Truly… so much has occurred…. I’m overwhelmed but at peace all at the same time….

I love being here, it really feels like my home right now… I feel like I have two homes, because I’ve come to miss Richmond which I didn’t think would happen, but its not Richmond itself, it’s the people there that I’ve left behind.

I’ve realized…no… I’ve always known, I just haven’t articulated fully I guess, that I’m very much an out of sight, out of mind person. Not literally… like I don’t necessarily forget people but I focus in on the moments I’m in…

I think that’s why my father holds so tight because he’s scared that if he lets me go to far I’ll disappear off the planet. I don’t mean to make people feel like I forget them, because I don’t, I just… I’ve gotten burned putting so much effort into relationships, and so to me a real relationship should be effortless. Like my best friend and I talk all the time… we talk at the least every other day. But it’s so effortless with her. But like with my parents and siblings and even people I love and am close too at home.. I just don’t communicate that often… I mean I’ll stop by their facebook and leave some love or text or sometimes even call.. but I’m just… not gonna make all the effort.. n if we don’t have a reason to talk.. although I do appreciate the random conversations that mean nothing.. those are some of my favorite convos… but I guess I find myself to not be that great of a communicator.. but I think it goes both ways….

I guess I bring this up cuz I’ve just been noticing how often my friends have been in contact wit there parents, and its true most of the time it’s the parents calling.. but still… I don’t talk to my parents that often.. maybe once a month… I’m so different and love being away and independent and on my own.. but the problem with that.. is I tend to struggle on my own… I keep my inner most secrets unless its pulled out of me and I just… don’t talk.

It’s the holidays and I haven’t really made a Christmas list like I usually do, I’m so excited to simply see people and spend time with them and have conversations and see where God has brought people. I feel like such a changed person… and even when I’ve gone home people have said they feel like I’m a changed person…

For my birthday Jessie said she didn’t know what to do with me because I had changed so much and it wasn’t bad.. it was just different.. I’ve heard other little comments like this and I wonder what that means… what could they mean?

I’ve been on a roller coaster adventure and its not over… I don’t know what lays before me but I’m excited about it.. I have this anticipation for next semester and I don’t know what it is… but I’m excited and nervous all at the same time.. there’s this calm I feel.. a peace that’s unexplainable.. but its that peace of.. everything’s going to be okay… so like does that mean something’s going to happen?

I don’t know.. I’m tired and delusional and stressed and I’m just in this new place of everything and nothing all at once… I just don’t know…

Saturday, December 5, 2009

As You Like It

AYLI has been so great. I've learned so much being sound operator and I’ve met some amazing and talented people.

Highlights of teching would be:

-the fun we have on headset

-the fun we have in the green room

-Tech night where all the guys, except 2, tore there shirts off for the curtain call dance extravaganza.. awkward and yet hilarious

-Ryan and the ness that is him

-Andy and the ness that is him

-Verbal abuse over the headset by Jeff

-Screaming teenagers at the sight of "Orlando"

-All the small movie references that have been put in… that only a few people get

-Jesiah always coming in and attempting to scare.. it hasn't worked, hence the attempt

Things that arn't so happy but still all apart of the experience:

-coming in the sound booth and everything have been changed and cleaned up and put away and completely screwed up because of the film festival... it took me an hour to find all the things missing and get everything back in its proper place.

-TV studio coming onto our headset channel in the middle of a show

-mike tape disappearing 15 min before the house opens

-CTV student coming through the booth just for a short cut in the middle of a performance (show some respect will ya? you wouldn't want a person to walk through the middle of a film shoot would u? I think not!)

All in all this has been an amazing experience, and I love it so much and I’ll sorta miss it when its gone.. but I’m also ready to be able to sleep again. But I sure do love the life of a theatre kid.