What do you do in drama?

Well I’m actually not taking a drama class, but I am big into the plays. I do a lot of those, I do the musicals. I just did Salute to Broadway, I directed a one act. It was experimental in the style of the futurist, which is a group in the 1930s — a group of guys, basically wanted to create a new future. I actually dislike the futurists, so I wrote an anti-futurist piece in their style and I directed that. I had a group of five kids and we did that. I do set construction — tech, I’m also in band and choir. I do a lot, I’m in Thespians. Let’s see, Salute to Broadway was [Thursday] and I did about a five-minute song, it was from Julian Hyde and Newlife. It was really, really fun; I enjoyed that.

What is your favorite part of the performing arts department?

The people. I absolutely love the people; they’re wonderful human beings. They’re really good friends of mine, who are just super supportive. I love being creative and just being out there and being someone different and channeling different characters through me.

If you had to pick one type of medium to do for a while what would it be?

Musicals. I would choose musicals because it encompasses both theater and music. I’m a big music person, I play trumpet and I sing. In musicals you can not only encompass a whole lot of different emotions, you can sing, you can play instruments. It is just so wholistic I love it. So musicals are definitely my favorite, singing, dancing, acting. It encompasses all different things and of course the people.

What’s your favorite role that you have play so far?

Let’s see, my favorite role — I just did this. It was a five-day play at the Manhattan Arts Theater, it was the ‘The Tortoise and The Hare.’ I was the lead of that, I was doing research on the play. It turns out that it was about oppression, it was about racism, put in a children’s play to teach children. So being a lead of a play that has very small children, you have to lead them and you have to teach them how to act and how to, also, encompass being kind to each other. That was such a fun play, because not only did I work with really small kids, it has a really amazing concept behind it. So that was my favorite. I was also the Wicked Witch of the West, that was just fun because playing the bad character is always the most enjoyable.

How does being onstage and in the plays help humble you in everyday life?

It shows me that I am just a human, but also being a human we can speak for others that don’t have the voices. So it humbles me, by just showing me my limits. It challenges me so much, that I can accept that I do have my limits. But also focus on what makes me strong and what I’m strong in. It’s such a humbling experience when you get to see other people do what they love as well. Seeing how they, just, display the different characters, it’s amazing. I would say that it is just a humbling experience.