| What is your most memorable childhood experience? | Every summer my family would travel to a large family camp. We stayed in the same cabin every year. It wasn't just me and my immediate family, but my father's brothers and sister and all of their kids as well. I learned how to ski and spent most of the week in the water or running around barefoot without a care in the world. At night we would sit around a campfire and sing songs with all of the other families and then most likely roast marshmallows or watch fireworks and play with sparklers. |
| What immediate family member do you closely identify with and why? | My mom. We actually don't have a lot in common, but our differences compliment each other so well, that we relate really easily. Being an artistic young boy who was more likely to bury his head in a magazine or day dream all day, it was always hard to relate to my father. He was an outdoorsman who wanted to go out and fish and hunt; I was not. My mother understood my desire to be alone and be creative and was always the first to support my eccentricities. |
| What character traits do you admire in an individual? | Humanity, and compassion more than any other traits. I like to say: close off your mind and you close off the world. It's amazing to me when people can just accept everything and everyone without complaining or judging. They're traits that I try to hold in myself, and know how hard it is to stay away from judgment, or the forming of biases. People that can just love humanity for what it is and not make distinctions are the kind of people this world needs more of. |
| What is the funniest thing ever to happen to you? | I broke my arm tap dancing. It wasn't funny at the immediate moment, but looking back on the experience of being in front of 450 people and then breaking my arm on stage only to be hauled to the hospital by the head of my collegiate department...it's funny. I was still in my tap shoes at the hospital, and having been effectively drugged, I was tap dancing in the middle of the emergency room while waiting for the doctors and nurses. My professor who had brought me to the hospital then had to help me fill out my very personal information profile. |
| If time and money were not an issue, where would you travel and why? | To Greece. To see where theatre started. I am a huge history buff and love the idea that the places where my art form started still exist in relics and existing buildings. Just to smell the air and feel the ancient stages under my feet would be amazing. |
| When and if you ever have children, what would you like to pass on to them? | The freedom to be and do what they feel passionately about. Money was never an important issue in my family. I knew we needed it to survive, but I always knew growing up that life was about family, and support, not rewards and accolades. |
