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COMING OF STARS

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO

November 19th-20th 2022

A retelling of the original Filipino Visayan folk tale of the mythological origins of the sun and moon. In the myth, the sun and moon are represented as a married couple and the stars as their children. The play’s staging was highly ensemble based and included moments of traditional Filipino folk dance. I was drawn to this piece because it was a story from a culture not prominently shown on a Loyola stage. I wanted to be a part of supporting the sharing of culture in any way I could. With working on this piece I grew a strong appreciation for ensemble work and became increasingly aware of how it can be essential even when the characters remain silent.

DIRECTED BY MIKAYLA DE GUZMAN

ROLE: CHILD (ensemble member)  

DOES IT FEEL LIKE HOME?

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO

March 3rd-4th 2022

Sometimes home is as simple as a feeling, a song, a recipe, a roof, a culture, and often it is more complicated than that. Does it Feel Like Home is a reflection of home’s complexity, comfort, and permanence. In a two-week workshop participants used moment work and object theatre to create and perform original scenes, spoken word and puppetry pieces to examine their personal definitions of home. In this workshop I drew from my experience growing up as a third culture kid living between two cultures. I wrote a paired monologue and filmed scene critiquing the oversimplification of the definition of home as being the answer to “where are you from?”, that examined the complexities and ignorance of that question.

DIRECTED BY MINH HÀ (MILLIE) LÊ

ROLE: WRITER AND ENSEMBLE MEMBER

NONE OF THE ABOVE

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO

November 2021

A group of students is forced to use their wits after making a risky mistake. This original student film was my first encounter with full fledge film production. I learned a lot about the process of filming from sitting on set. In this piece, I play Felix the laid-back caring friend, trying to get her friends out of one and then another stressful situation.

DIRECTED BY SAM FABLO

ROLE: FELIX 

ACTING II

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO

Spring 2022

A semester dedicated to Shakespearian acting taught by Ross Lehman. This course dove into the theory and application of the First Folio Technique. Provided tips and tricks to understanding and memorizing Shakespeare as well as how to use scansion and employ pacing. I applied these skills to Adriana’s monologue from Comedy of Errors, a scene as Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing, and various parts in As You Like It. I applied theoretical knowledge learned in this class to a written piece about failure and quitting in the theatre industry using fragments from a collection of Shakespeare’s plays.

TAUGHT BY ROSS LEHMAN

ACTING I

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO

Fall 2021

An introduction to the fundamentals of performance. Exploring character analysis, objectives, motivations, wants, needs, movement, and stressing the specificity of decisions. This class taught me how intellectual acting can be, and the importance of time, practice, and thought when it comes to performance. Now in all my art, on stage and off, I try to be as specific and thoughtful as possible. In this class, I practiced these skills using Georgia’s monologue from I Used To Write On Walls by Behak Brunstetter and the scene 8 Minutes.

TAUGHT BY TIM KANE

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