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| LIVING
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Earth, North America, Canada, Ontario, Ottawa, Glebe,
Clarey, Third storey, Room at the top of the stairs to the right, My bed.
Followed closely by room 118. |
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| CREATING |
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| I was part of a collective sketch comedy performance child
called Phrüm during Canterbury Arts Fest in grade 10; this was Tom's,
and my, first instance of hilarity together. At the end of that year, I
also co-wrote and co-directed a Fringe Fest comedy play called 100% Cotton.
I make clothing sometimes, mostly easy stuff like pj’s, but I’ve
made shirts and skirts, and if all goes according to plan, I’ll be
sporting my own creation for grad. |
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| PERFORMING/DIRECTING |
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| Canterbury Arts Fest is really the only place I’ve performed
so far. In grade nine I did a show called, It’s Only Me, which actually
took place in the hallway, it was pretty awesome. Then I was a part of Phrüm
in grade 10, as previously mentioned. I was also a part of Fantastical Folktales
from Far, Far Away for the children’s theatre unit in the grade 11
drama programme. I also recently performed on the NAC studio stage during
improv regionals, baby!
I directed a play for the Fringe Fest and I hated it. We had no space
to rehearse in, everything was sloppy and last minute, we didn’t
have our prop washing machines until a few days before, and by the last
performance they were falling apart. No one knew their dance moves, and
we only had one day to rehearse in our venue. It was, overall, a good
experience; especially just getting out there in the theatre world, but
man, was it stressful. And of course, I’ve played at Canterbury’s
Arts Fest which is a great outlet for creativity and expression, and I
look back on Phrüm as one of the best things I’ve done at this
school.
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| MISSING |
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| My name up in lights on Broadway. |
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| BEING
IN CHARGE |
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| I didn’t like the position of director, mostly because
I worked with a cast of my friends and we didn’t really establish
the difference between Iris the friend and Iris the director, and that made
it very difficult to attain any authority in my position. I didn’t
like being the bad guy, and that made it impossible to get anything done.
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| OFF
THE JOB |
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| I love all the arts, and despite the lack of talent I have
in most, I love doing them all. In my spare time (which is rare and highly
valued these days), I write, draw, dance (well, that one mostly just in
front of my mirror to some awesome 80's music—think ‘Good Vibrations’
and ‘Life is a Highway’). I’m part of a youth movement
called Habonim Dror and I spend most of my vacations and summer at Camp
Gesher and other functions of the movements. It is a socialist, labour Zionist
movement, and I have met people from all over North America through it.
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| PERSONAL |
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| My friends would describe me as granola—I’m a
vegetarian and uh, I like to recycle, so there you go. This is also the
source of endless mocking from the team, but it’s ok because I’m
gonna live longer. I mean, how personal should I get here? I’m single
and enjoy long walks on the beach. |
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| FAVOURITE
BOFA MOMENTS |
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| I think my favourite moments were all at Robin’s house
when we slept over close to the beginning of the season this year. We were
all crammed into Nick’s room and talking. Talking about everything:
some ridiculously long clown joke, balloon artists, Hamza’s weird
“pebble in the blender” noise, and everything in between. It
was really the first time we were a team together, and I loved every minute,
and I still do. Rehearsal-wise, my favourite moment was the day after regional
preliminaries. We were all tired and most of us were in a bad mood, and
we were all sore as hell. We got up to play some herald. We had no energy
so we played a round of Big Booty, and all of a sudden we lost it. We were
so unfocused and we were just going nuts. We played some herald and a character
game, but we were all losing it, rolling on the floor laughing and clutching
our ribs in pain. I don’t even remember what was so funny about it,
but it was by far the best rehearsal we’ve had. |
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| FUTURE |
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| Aw, jeez, I get this question everywhere I turn. I don’t
know yet. I recently chose my course for next year and I might not even
take a spare just so I can keep all my doors open. Theatre is obviously
a possibility, but so is biology, or psychology, or who knows, maybe even
giraffe excavation. |
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| FAVOURITE
THING TO DO |
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| Right now? It’s gotta be improv. It’s really unlike
anything else. I love the performing, but probably more than that even is
the love of the improv community. It’s so awesome that so many people
are brought together through the Games. I also love rehearsals, almost as
much as performing. |
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| ENJOYED
WORKING AT |
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| I can’t pick; I think in general I’ve liked working
at high school the best. It’s been the busiest, hardest, most fun
time of my life, and it’s the challenge of balancing school, and theatre,
and drumming, and guitar, and my life. I’m working at the beginning
of the rest of my life, and I’ve never been happier. |
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| AWARDS
SO FAR |
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| Uh, I won the drama award last year. Oh yeah, and a speech
contest in grade 8. ( And the Regional gold medal.) |
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| MOST
PROUD OF |
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| Probably Phrüm because I helped
write, direct, and act in it and it really was my child. I put so much of
my life into that show, and it was a hit. Performing that baby was the best
feeling in the world. |
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| MOST
DIFFICULT |
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| Improv is something you cannot do if you’re in a bad
mood. It’s impossible to come to rehearsal feeling at all upset or
even just in a calm mood. Getting past that and doing it despite how shitty
you feel, or how much work you have waiting for you at home, or how little
sleep you’ve been getting. And of course, the rhyming. I can do it
when no one’s listening, I swear. |
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| Written in March, 2004 |
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