Are summer stock and internships a good way to get started?
That’s an easy way for a young person to get started. Well… not easy. Certainly you have to have a free summer and a little parental help because they don’t generally pay you very much, so you have to have a little bit saved up. Internships are great, but if you’re not getting paid you should be getting credit towards Equity. I like the idea of learning from working professionals, being around a more professional atmosphere. When I graduated I was looking at going to grad school, but not for acting. I knew I wanted to find an internship as sort of a step between, so I went to the SETC again and applied to both Louisville and Cincinnati. I went with Cincinnati basically because you could work during the day and do your internship at night. Plus Louisville wait listed me, of course, which was also part of it. In Cincinnati I was racking up weeks [towards Equity membership] by understudying and doing tech work and all that stuff. After my first year, one of the intern directors wanted t
