Stay in total silence, do not move, do not speak, do not smile, wait for the stage lights to turn on.
There I stood there dressed in pink, sunglasses on, white cane in hand, a blind earthworm at sixteen.
Thought to myself here it goes, my role, my first play. Before I knew it the stage was brighter than dawn.
After my first few roles were said and done all I could think back of how I became interested in acting.
I had to go back to a few years thinking of when I saw my cousin acting at her Pilipino Cultural Night.
There she was, someone I saw every weekend, transformed into someone else, lost in acting and reacting.
I knew that night that acting would be something I wanted to pursue no matter how long and hard the fight.
From an Earthworm, to God of the Underworld and many more, acting lets me live many souls, many lives.
Acting is a drug, the more I do it, the more I want. It gives a healthy escape from a mundane reality.
My goal is to have many roles, many emotions, many actions (theirs or mine) for personal mental archives.
Acting is a constant and fulfilling therapy. Following every performance, I have a refreshed mentality.
Acting not only gives me an escape, but it gives an escape for the cast, crew, and audience as well.
I step out of my shoes, and into another, I wipe my emotions and memories clear, to clear any doubt.
A job of the cast and crew is to give the escape for the audience, positive or negative, heaven or hell.
Every action, emotion, and line gives me freeom, before every performance, I yell mentally, "Act It Out!"
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