“Critical thinking, academic writing, and discipline are the most important skills I cultivated through my liberal arts education.”
Major/minors: Classical Civilizations major, Acting and Scenic Design double-minor
Lives in: Brooklyn, NY
What work looks like: “My job entails performing, developing new work, rehearsing, and constant auditioning. Staying sharp requires daily practice: reading and analyzing scripts, memorization, creativity, and an emphasis on overall wellbeing. I am also a coach and a director, which affords me opportunities to approach work from an outside angle.”
What she loves about it: “I love that my job is always different. There are days when I’m working on something entirely new and others when I’m returning to a character I’ve known for a long time but am now experiencing through the lens of the current moment. I enjoy perpetually stepping into the unknown because it demands absolute presence.”
What she gained from a liberal arts education: “I am non-linear. Critical thinking, academic writing, and discipline are the most important skills I cultivated through my liberal arts education. Organizing thought into a cohesive argument underpinned by a meticulous structure was monumental for me. My liberal arts education has been an invaluable training ground, as working in creative spaces requires a great deal of flexibility, adaptability, and risk-taking, but also vision. Taking classes in many disciplines with an emphasis on research in seminar settings primed me to celebrate collaboration and helped me develop a facility for synthesizing disparate information. Wherever I am working, I enjoy interdisciplinary projects and opportunities where I have to bridge seemingly unrelated concepts. Broad thinking is central to all aspects of my work.”