“So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.” PlaySchoolOrderStageNew YorkDramaSummerCapacityProductionsLooking For Work Author:Linda Lavin
“I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.” KindArtSchoolSidesCitiesNew YorkDramaHigh SchoolProgramPerformingDepartmentNew York CityPublic SchoolJuniorsJunior HighPerforming ArtsHappenstance Author:Merritt Wever
“My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York theater actress. They kind of quit when I was born. They did that for, like, 10 years before they had kids and then I was born and they were not into that lifestyle for kids.” YearsKindKidsMotherFatherBornNew YorkCollegeDramaTheaterActressesQuittingLifestylePittsburgh Author:Ethan Suplee
“I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession.” WritingFiguresNew YorkPeriodsDramaRight NowCriticsFavorsTricksObsessionOddPlotAllies Author:Tony Kushner
“I moved to New York to go to Julliard Drama School. Didn't sing a single note of music.” SchoolNew YorkDramaMovedNotes Author:Mandy Patinkin
“She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.” PeopleHumansLinesCitiesStruggleEnvironmentNew YorkNeededDramaBuiltSpeciesCrowdsArchitectureWitnessLandscapeNew York CityUrbanIntrigueStraight LinesCity LifeBystandersPower StruggleBuilt EnvironmentUrban Landscape Author:Ruth Ozeki
“The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) in another very famous line: "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."” ArtMomentsSchoolLinesMissingNew YorkDramaCriticsActressesDramaticGraduatesCynicalIntroducingAcidVery FamousCaustic Author:George Sanders