“I think the peak of acting is when you’re on stage, and...

“I think the peak of acting is when you’re on stage, and completely committed to a character, and not even in the real world. That’s why I decided to be an actor. I thought there’d be a lot of those moments. Instead it’s been a lot of marketing and auditioning and rejection and very few of those moments. I knew it would be hard, and that I’d have to put in a lot of effort without anything bouncing back, but I thought that things would come along occasionally to reenergize me. There hasn’t been much of that. I’m getting close to thirty now, so I began looking hard at going back to school for a more practical degree. But then I got a role that got me excited about acting again. We’ve been rehearsing every night for the past month, and the show just opened two nights ago. Now they’re already saying that we might have to close soon because of low ticket sales.”