I got my contract in the mail for the Contemporary American Theater Festival today! I'm ready to rock! I've been working on a Farsi-Bengali accent, an English-Rwandan accent and trying to learn some French and Rwandan. Why? I play three different characters: a UN Major from Bangladesh, a Rwandan man and a English-speaking Rwandan Policeman.
I'm excited to cut my teeth on The Overwhelming before I head to The Theatre School to start training for an MFA in Acting this fall. If I'm going to make my living as stage and screen actor I should be versatile. I want to work as a leading man, but I want to cut up the rug in a supporting part sometimes too—not because I'm afraid of the work, but because I'm excited by the challenge of it: how many parts can I play?
Am I as good as Ira Aldridge was? Am I as good as Laurence Olivier? I'd be wasting my time to compare myself to them. We all have our own method. I've got a simple job really: do the homework, learn my lines, put the clothes on and go out there with my partners and do it. Do I really understand the kind of acting that Sanford Meisner and Sydney Pollack are talking about? I don't know, only time and work will tell.
I'll keep this thing jumping with notes from the day as the Festival gets rolling.
Love, Peace and Understanding.
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