There’s nearly no point in keeping a blog that you don’t update, but every once in a while I feel the need to update my blog and then it remembers that it has purpose.
I graduated on Sunday. It was nice. Four years of sleepless nights, parties, hair-pulling tests and papers, ridiculous adventures with crazy people, and lots of coffee have awarded me a piece of paper that as my friend put it succinctly, “means nothing in our field.” Well here’s to a BA in Theatre, thank you Davidson.
Now what? Now I start a year of work with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. I got an offer in March after I had auditioned all over the country. This wasn’t the only offer I had (I was blessed with options), but this was by far the best for me. I’ll get to play some incredible roles in parks and high schools in Cincinnati, not to mention the time I’ll hopefully have on the CSC stage in some of their productions. Having watched this company for 6 years, I’m beyond excited to be joining them on stage. And in an ironic twist of fate, my good friend John from high school who acted oppostite me many times will also be joining the Young Company at CSC. They won’t know what hit ’em.
All of this is part of the next chapter. There are other aspects that I could go into beyond theatre and work (which are thankfully wrapped up into one aspect!), but I don’t feel this is the right place for all those other aspects.
I’m thankful to be at home for now, spending time with my family before meeting Linnea in Greece to help out at the WHM conference, traveling with her to Istanbul, visiting some special people in Washington, and enjoying the freedom I have from school. It’s been a great ride and I’m already missing those friends who have scattered to the wind, but friendship is not defined by place so I will not fret the distance.