Looking Back on Dino

Learning outcome 1. Perhaps my greatest sign of growth was in my improv skills, which one year ago I couldn't do to save my life. Twice in the performances there was an incident that required me in particular to Improv my way through until the scene could go back on track. My directors commented that in both instances the Improv was fluid enough that the mood of the scene was not broken and no one broke character, which are great assets to have as an actor.

Learning outcome 4. Evan and I had great chemistry on stage, which was largely do to our close friendship off-stage. The mutual trust and collaboration that we had in developing our characters greatly effected our relationship with the other character, but also added an interesting friendship dynamic to the show which was only seen in one other pair of characters, Pat and Sylvia, but their characters were shyer which lead to a more interpretive friendship while ours was more explicit. Thanks to my real life friendship with Evan as well as my high comfort level in the other Actors on stage I was able to work very well with others with no actual incident. This has helped my teamwork skills tremendously since I have struggled in the past with collaboration due to my stubborn desire to be independent. With any other group I would have most likely been uncooperative due to the aforementioned reason.