Perform in a play

I’m going to take a few theatre classes this summer semester, which will get me a little closer to acting sometime, I hope.

I’m also going to take a directing class the fall after that.

Nearly all of my life, I’ve wanted to be an actress. Lately that want has diminished, but I still want to be involved in a play sometime in my life.

In high school, I was never in a play. I didn’t audition for any in my freshman year, due to injury the first time, illness the second. Sophomore year, I auditioned for both the fall play and the musical. The fall play was Shakespeare, and as much as I love him, I can not memorize his monologues, so no shot there. For the musical, I did the Epiphany monologue from Dogma, which I thought was a perfect dramatic monologue. But I didn’t get in, and I was crushed. Junior year, I only auditioned for the fall play, doing Donkey’s Girl Dragon monologue from Shrek. Once again, no dice. At this point I wondered if they disregarded me because I was using movie monologues instead of play, because both of those were the best performances I’d ever done. Also that year, I got a part in one of the one acts for the festival. Unfortunately, due to incompetence on the cast’s part, the play was canceled. Senior year, again I only auditioned for the fall, and I did a monologue from Oedipus, since we were reading it in English class and I loved the monologues in it. Yet again, nothing. But this time it was because I forgot every single line, and even had to start over, which pretty much automatically makes them refuse you, even though they let you start over. Then I decided to take a stab at directing a one-act, but that came out a worse disaster than the last one act in which I played an actual part.

So long story short, I have had no luck in the theatre business, but still I want to be in SOMETHING.