[NEohioPAL] College students, please read this...

[Fred Sternfeld via NEohioPAL]

Are you a college student studying the performing arts?

Here is why you should consider augmenting your college experience with a
summer at Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute (HBTI)
<http://www.hb.edu/page.cfm?p=8727>...

"As someone who just turned 22, a lot of people tend to ask me why I
continue to return to Hathaway Brown Theatre Institute. Well, for one
thing, the training they continue to give me each year still pushes me.
There is never a day at HBTI where I don’t learn anything, whether it’s
Bebe reminding me about alignment at the barre, or Fred pushing me to find
the truth in a character and make it more like Jessica and not a
caricature. At 22 years of age, I am still able to soak up so much
information. While HBTI continually moves me forward in acting and dance, I
have learned life lessons there that are completely invaluable.

·         HBTI has taught me how to focus and conduct myself professionally.

·         HBTI helped me transform from a crybaby into a strong young woman.

·         HBTI helped me to recognize that I had things in my life that
were holding me back, and HBTI encouraged me to let go.

·         HBTI taught me that good theatre is not based on where it is,
what awards the show wins, or how many professionals are in the show with
you. Good theatre is good theatre.


I keep telling myself that I keep coming back to HBTI because they keep
doing shows that I love and want to be a part of, but that’s really only a
piece of it. Something I learned at HBTI is that when you play a character,
no matter how rough that characters situation is, you must “play the hope”,
or “have hope through adversity”. Thanks to HBTI, I don’t just apply this
to my characters anymore. I apply it to Jessica as well. As a BFA musical
theatre student, I have days where I sometimes start to forget why I chose
to do this for the rest of my life. Spending one day at HBTI reminds me
why. HBTI gives me hope."


Jessica Hirsh, BFA/DANCE major at YSU; Recent HBTI credits: Judy in A
CHORUS LINE, Aunt Eller in OKLAHOMA!
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