[0:05]I've always been a class clown, but it wasn't until I came back to New York when I was 15 and I seen a student ran show at theater on 42nd Street. I was in the audience just relaxing. I'm like, oh man, this is what I need to be doing. So I was like, why not? Let me take a risk. I auditioned for Juliard, I come to this place, New York's your background, I love New York, and I felt healthy here. I felt the teachers cared, they were serious about their goal and inspiring a next generation of actors. It felt like a good match, you know? All things were pointing to Juliard. A typical day at Juliard, uh, well we go from 9 to 10. It's a long day. Moni's class is a big wake up call. That's one of the most physically demanding classes that I've ever been in. I mean if that alarm doesn't wake you up, he gonna wake you up, you know what I mean? So his class emphasizes getting out of your head and finding the energy around you and being in that moment. Then that parallels to being in a scene, being able to stay with your partner, being so open and wherever this goes, just trust that I got your back. Going into that class, I'm like, oh man, but then I always feel like a champion coming out. Mass class is a gateway into different parts of your personality. Everybody puts on a mask and everybody gets up together. Whether you utilizing a neutral mask or an animal mask or a character mask. It allows you to bring out parts of yourself you never knew were there. Through the mask, you you find these things that ultimately help you to believe in your character more and believe in yourself more. Kate Wilson, so we'll form like a circle and everybody's in their own different play, but it's all a big collective. Whoever wants to take center stage, you go and take center stage and you speak until somebody else comes in, takes it in and and moves their play along. And you get to give and take and see what inspires you when you have impulse to go and take the baton you go. And you are arena, the youngest. I mean, we're together from 9 to 10 every day with the exception of like two or three breaks. So on my off time, I like to either go to the fourth or the fifth floor, admire New York City, listen to meditation music, send a few emails. So yeah, it's a me time. I like to quiet my mind and re-recharge myself for the next group of classes. Voice with Andrew Wade, uh the first seven to 10 minutes, we get to warm up however you want and try to channel that breath support down to the diaphragm. And we get in a circle, we passed lines across, playing with the structure that Shakespeare has given you.
[2:33]So now you can let your own creativity come through. So you learn the rules and then you break them. In scene study with Becky Guy, you get to see how people come into the to the process and rehearse from a week to week basis. So you get to learn where people are coming from, their different processes. She she tracks what you're doing and seeing what moments may have not worked. You didn't you didn't get to that moment. You can't get to that moment thinking about getting to that moment. Then I have singing class with Deb Lapidus. Before Juliard, you know, I was a shower singer, you know what I mean? But now I'm confident to go up and hold a tune or hit a note. Singing class is just like acting class, you know, this piece of text, how do you interpret it, you put your own spin on it and you make it work. The great thing about being in in Juliard is you get to develop these connections. And you're around so many inspiring, talented artists. In our off time we just like to, you know, rehearse. While doing normal day things. I feel like it's important to being able to allow the environment, wherever you are, whether I'm eating in the in the lounge. You know, you try to find things or let things find you and just be in the moment and and rehearse. Half of my class were doing three sisters. So rehearsals is a great time just to in a way let go. You did like eight hours of classes now you can just let go and just bring what you got. And all those little girl's faces was a look of horror. Fear, anxiety, I don't know it all it broke my heart to see them like that. Maybe it's not so much about the little girls, but as much as like what you're able to see in yourself in them. You want to get it right. You want to hit that perfect. You want to hit that at the end of the word, you know? But then I have moments of like, you are where you are and that's okay. You will get there and like I'm in Juliard. You come to acting class thinking you're going to be other people, but in truth you find out who you are, which you can lend yourself to other people in their circumstances, you know what I mean? Sometimes you can't see your growth. You can see everybody else is around you, but yourself, but I'm I'm growing.
