LIFE IS A STAGE! That’s what some person in Romeo and Juliet said, or at least how I personally remember it. I took Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, & Hamlet this past semester and the fact that I can’t remember a specific line from a very popular play speaks volume, but what can I say? I’m not built for Shakespeare.
Moving past the weird opening sentences, today I got great news. My short little play, “Last Words” got selected by the AUR (American University of Rome for future references) Dramatic Arts Club to be a part of their selection of student-written plays. They have a showcase some time in April, and students like me who won’t shut up about theater and/or Broadway do acting, tech theater-ing, and directing showcase everything that they work hard for the past couple of months, and I can’t wait to add this to the list of things I got to accomplish. Just know that I’m handling it with care and that my sisters aren’t dead, so this isn’t an autobiography or inspired by personal events.
Nonetheless, I’m very glad and honored to have my directorial debut (still weird to say) in the performing arts space, especially since I got my start in all things creative with theater as a young 8 year old kid with nothing but a big gap between my teeth and a stutter.
If you would’ve told 8 year old Max that he would be making his very first student film at the young age of 21, he would’ve thought that you were crazy. 8 year old Max was BARELY introduced to theater, but not because he wanted to, but because he was going through speech therapy and his mom made him socialize more. 8 year old Max couldn’t even talk to his own sister, let alone talk to actors and crew people into giving the kind of performance and work he wanted, so no. Younger me would’ve said no if he actually talked.
Today, I found out that my written short film, “Acting Straight” got chosen to be made into a student film under the AUR Film Festival Club’s guidance. To say that I’m excited and nervous doesn’t put into words how I feel about this, but it’s the closest that summarizes how I feel. I have the proper pitch meeting later tonight after my acting class and then on Thursday, the auditions come. Am I nervous? Yeah because I don’t know how to do casting, but I’m excited to see how it all turns out. Am I ready for this? Mentally, I’m convincing myself that I am, but we’ll see how it goes. Through it all, as long as we all have a good time and the comedy is there, then I truly believe that it’s going to work out in the end.
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