Theatre kid

Yeah.

Ultimately, this is the kind of vocal style where it's, I want to say impassioned, but something that came between us in our group chat was Theater Kid.

I think that's a little off.

It's not

Yeah, yeah.

It's awful.

You said, not necessarily theater kid energy, but...

Kid who works like the art department.

The

T in TMV stands for Theater Kid.

Well, yeah, but this should be fun.

So this is what dream roster moves.

Tell me a little bit about your childhood.

I want to hear more about Theater Kid.

Were you a Theater Kid? How did you get to the point where you thought, let's make a career of this?

Absolutely.

I mean, people always ask me, like, oh, how did you become an actor? I'm like, well, I wanted a lot of attention when I was a kid and no one ever told me to stop and I ended up here.

My teacher, by a stroke of luck, was this really amazing guy named David Gammons, who's a really amazing, um, director in Boston who would go on to direct many amazing things but he kind of got his start as a high school teacher at Concord Academy and he took us into Boston to see all these amazing plays and stuff including at Speakeasy Stage Company where I got my first job as a theater marketer and an actor Shakespeare project where I am a theater marketer now and being exposed to these professional productions at an early age I remember looking up at stage and at a production called Red and at speakeasy stage company one of the greatest productions i've ever seen and there was some legendary actor named tommy dara who unfortunately has passed now but i remember seeing him on that stage looking up being like oh i don't need to be a broadway actor i don't need to go to los angeles for this to be a thing i could do this right here and that's a dream that's something that's like attainable for me it's not like something that just happens to other people It can happen right here in Boston and I can have these, you know, 300 people sitting around me having the same feeling looking up at me.

And that's kind of what I've been chasing for my entire career.

So I went from like theater kid, you know, I always loved it as a kid to something that I really wanted to do with my life.

There's no Easter eggs, X-Men superfan.

Theater Kid feels Halloween's gonna help.

Agreed.

Atmosphere, it should be in the Reeves verse.

So it'll be interesting to see how Glee interacts with the world today, where people are more divided about that.

It's an extremely progressive show.

And it really was about the theater kids hanging out with the popular kids.

You know, Cory Monteith played a jock who somehow wound up on the school Glee team.

Huzzah!

This wouldn't be a Theater Kid episode if somebody didn't huzzah.

Yeah.

So, yeah, Haley is 22, almost 23.

Anyway, if you've stayed to the end of the episode and got to hear this, that's the bonus

of hanging

out with theater kids.

Yeah, you get impressions.

So you were a...

Did you find yourself being a quintessential theater kid when you were in school? Was that, was it kind of your life? Was it...

You know, 'cause theater kids, they kinda take a big bite out of that.

Yeah, I think, uh, I really loved...

When, when I started doing plays in high school, that was when, I mean, the first show I did was No No Nanette, and then I did Into the Woods and I played the witch, and it was just such a...

Yeah.

So I grew up as a theater kid and for me, musical theater was, yes, it was fun and it was play, but it was deeper than that too.

It was a space where I felt really safe and accepted.

It was community.

And then I found it at my elementary school.

Um, and then I went on to do, you know, something s- you know, similar to Jack's, not as elaborate as Jack's is, um, for theater kids.

Yeah.

But, uh, yeah.

Yeah.

I love it.

So we really are just like a wild group of theater kids.

Right.