I LOVE WCT!

Audition Day! Oh my god. I can't believe it's already been 2 years since I attended audition day at Wagner College as an prospective student. At the time, I hadn't fallen in love with the school yet; It was only one of my nine college auditions I had to go on. But now that I've been here for almost two whole years and after helping out at this year's audition day I'm proud to say that I wouldn't rather be anywhere else.

When I auditioned here and on move in day freshman year I remember thinking that this place was just like Disneyland: everyone was so nice, friendly, happy, and eager to meet the new students. Now that I'm on the other side of things, I realize that Wagner College Theater students really are excited to meet prospective students. We're proud to represent WCT and all the great training that this program has to offer.

Meeting prospective students also made me realize how far I've come in the last two years. I've taken great classes, worked with amazing professors, and learned so much. I've gained confidence in areas that I used to think of as my weaknesses. I've learned how to own who I am as an artist. And I've learned to love each and every "little win" or small accomplishment. Two years ago I was going on auditions to get into college musical theater programs. Now, I'm auditioning for main stage musicals and stage one plays at Wagner College, waking up at 5 AM on Fridays to head to an open call, and auditioning for other professional Summer Stock theaters. I did not think this would be my life halfway through my Sophomore year of college. I realized that my career doesn't start once I graduate from Wagner. My career has already started. It started when I auditioned at Wagner. Coming to this school and being inspired every single day to work harder, get better, make mistakes and learn from them, was one of the best decisions I've ever made. And it excites me that next year 30-somewhat new Freshman Theater Performance majors will have the chance to experience the same thing.

A bedtime drawing

Sometimes you need to turn on the music, sit, put marker and colored pencils to a piece of paper and draw. We used to do this in STAC (in High School). I don't really know what this drawing means and I don't really know if I like it but I did this while listening to "Rolling In the Deep" and here it is. Now it's off to bed.

What I've been up to...

For anybody who likes keeping up to date with what's going on in the theater world, here's something new: Goddess Wheel, music and lyrics by Galt MacDermot book by Matty Selman, to premier this spring at Wagner College. I've been given the wonderful opportunity of being part of this creative process and journey and I am proud to share the show's brand new blog and tumblr with all my blog followers:

goddesswheel.blogspot.com and goddesswheel.tumblr.com

Our fabulous Assistant Director and Assistant Stage Manager are in charge of the two webpages. They will be posting information, pictures, videos, quotes, and anything else exciting as we make our way around the goddess wheel.