Either join the theater group or class at your school, or find a local community theater where you can try out or volunteer.

Advice

Get involved in theater.

It's important to take chances and put yourself in situations where it's uncertain if you will fail or succeed. Write down 3 small ways you can do something out of your comfort zone, then try them!

Day to Day

Find 3 ways to get out of your comfort zone!

Improv classes are offered at theaters, community colleges, rec centers, and more. Search online for classes offered close to you and sign up for a beginner class! Even better, sign up with a friend!

Career

Find an improv class near you!

Actors

Play parts in stage, television, radio, video, motion picture productions, or other settings for entertainment, information, or instruction. Interpret serious or comic role by speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain or inform audience. May dance and sing.

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Second Interest High-Point

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

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Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

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Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

Actors, Producers, and Directors

Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers

Study and rehearse roles from scripts to interpret, learn and memorize lines, stunts, and cues as directed.

Work closely with directors, other actors, and playwrights to find the interpretation most suited to the role.

Learn about characters in scripts and their relationships to each other to develop role interpretations.

Collaborate with other actors as part of an ensemble.

Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.

Attend auditions and casting calls to audition for roles.

Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements, to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences.

Work with other crew members responsible for lighting, costumes, make-up, and props.

Sing or dance during dramatic or comedic performances.

Read from scripts or books to narrate action or to inform or entertain audiences, utilizing few or no stage props.

Promote productions using means such as interviews about plays or movies.

Write original or adapted material for dramas, comedies, puppet shows, narration, or other performances.

Prepare and perform action stunts for motion picture, television, or stage productions.

Tell jokes, perform comic dances, songs and skits, impersonate mannerisms and voices of others, contort face, and use other devices to amuse audiences.

Introduce performances and performers to stimulate excitement and coordinate smooth transition of acts during events.

Manipulate strings, wires, rods, or fingers to animate puppets or dummies in synchronization with talking, singing, or recorded programs.

Dress in comical clown costumes and makeup, and perform comedy routines to entertain audiences.

Perform original and stock tricks of illusion to entertain and mystify audiences, occasionally including audience members as participants.

Construct puppets and ventriloquist dummies, and sew accessory clothing, using hand tools and machines.

Digital still cameras

Digital video recorders

Laptop computers

MP3 digital voice recorders

Personal computers

Photography tripods

Tablet computers

Wireless microphones

Apple Final Cut Pro

Email software

Facebook

Instagram

LinkedIn

Microsoft Office

Motion capture software

Twitter

Web browser software

Website development software

YouTube

Owners

♪♪  PEOPLE WHO JUST DO  DAY IN-DAY OUT  WHERE'S THE FUN IN THAT? EVERY MORNING WHAT YOU DO.  I THINK IT'S SO AMAZING  TO MEET SOMEONE  ORIGINAL IN THOUGHT. I WANT TO BE CONSCIOUSLY MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT MY LIFE.  I NEVER SAT DOWN AND THOUGHT  WHAT DO I REALLY WANT TO DO.  I NEED TO DISCOVER MYSELF.  IT'S NOT A HORSE RACE,  THIS IS A MARATHON.  THAT'S REALLY GONNA COUNT.  BEFORE OUR 7-DAY MARK  WE BROKE DOWN...ALREADY. LEAKING EVERYWHERE? WE'RE JUST WAITING FOR MONACO TO COOL DOWN. OVERHEATED. MONACO.  WE ARRIVED IN L.A.  A WEEK AGO.  LEARNING HOW TO DRIVE,  BUT I DON'T KNOW,  ABOUT BEING ON THE ROAD.  THERE'S SO MANY  BIG THINGS HAPPENED,  THE FIRST WEEK.  MEETING AUGIE,  WAS PRETTY BIG AS WELL FOR ME. YEAH! I'M MEANT TO BE PUTTING IN.  I'M CONSTANTLY TENSE  WITH EXCITEMENT. THE MOST OF EVERYTHING.  I THINK I MIGHT BE TOO SHORT  TO CLEAN THE WINDOWS.  NOW I FEEL LIKE THINGS  ARE STARTING TO OPEN UP AGAIN,  WHERE I CAN START MAKING  AND REACHING COMPLETELY  THAT I'VE BEEN IN. I'M GOING, CO-PILOT? (SU-YIN) OH, SORRY. SORRY.  TODAY WE'RE GOING  TO SAN FRANCISCO.  TO SAN FRANCISCO,  'CAUSE I'VE ONLY SEEN  OF SAN FRANCISCO. IN SAN FRANCISCO I HAVE PROFESSOR TOM NAZARIO. STRAIGHT PATH OF MY FRIENDS ARE ON. NOT FOR PROFIT. WAS TO DOCUMENT ORPHANS NICE TO MEET YOU. SU-YIN. HI.  BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW  WITH OUR LIVES. CONFLICT WHEN YOU WERE OUR AGE? I WAS LUCKY. WHEN I WAS 4 YEARS OLD, WHICH IS KIND OF A GHETTO THAT'S THE ONLY DAY MY PARENTS GOING THROUGH A GARBAGE CAN ABOUT 3 OR 4 YEARS OLD THANKSGIVING DINNER I THINK I BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT, ON THIS PLANET--  THE THINGS I WANTED TO DO TO MAKE THE WORLD DIDN'T HAVE AN AWFUL LOT  GETTING THERE IN NEW YORK, TERRIBLE SCHOOLS, AS A KID THAT I COULD REALLY IN HIGH SCHOOL, 'CAUSE I JUST SPOKE SPANISH TAUGHT ME HOW TO READ. BUT FINALLY I MET SOMEONE ABLE TO MAKE THE LEAP. HADN'T HAD THAT ENCOURAGING IN YOUR LIFE, POSITION THAT YOU'RE IN NOW? VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME TELLS KIDS OF COLOR SO IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT  INTO COLLEGE THAT HAD SOME FAITH IN ME TO GRADUATE SCHOOL  IN THAT DIRECTION.  DOES IT FRUSTRATE YOU WHEN  YOU TALK TO WELL, FOR ME, I TALK FOR MYSELF A VERY EASY LIFE. GOOD AND GREAT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT. THAT WE'RE JUST STAGNATED  WHEN YOU CAN SEE THERE'S  DONE OUT THERE? I HAVE DIFFICULTY WITH THAT. FOR HAVING IT NICE WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE AND DO NOTHING.  THERE'S A WORLD OF WORK TO DO  THAT'S REALLY NOT BEEN DONE,  BY MANY PEOPLE THAT I KNOW-- LEGITIMATE CAREER PATH.  WANTING TO DO SOMETHING  THAN JUST MYSELF. A HONK.  I THINK WE SHOULD.  DO IT.  WE'RE HERE!  WE ARE AT GOLDEN GATE PARK  IN SAN FRANCISCO,  TO MEET DAVID MILES, HOW TO SKATE? I.  YOU WILL EVER HAVE.  WHERE WERE YOU AT  WHEN YOU WERE OUR AGE? I WANTED TO DO. BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT I WAS  AND GET IN THE UNION  ON A BUILDING WHERE FOR ONE FLOOR A REALLY BAD EARTHQUAKE  STARTING SHAKING. THE FLOOR AND I SAID I AM OUT OF HERE. 'CAUSE I WOULD BRING  I STAYED AND IT JUST HAPPENED  29, 30, 31 YEARS  THE SKATE PATROL, AND CPR WHEN YOU HELP PEOPLE ACTIVISM OF PASSING LEGISLATION  TO COME OUT AND SKATE. THE BRAKES.  GET USED TO IT.  THAT SKATES, EXCEPT FOR ME.  IT'S JUST REALLY--IT'S--  I DON'T KNOW-- DON'T TRUST IT. DIDN'T PUT IT OUT THERE THAT IT WAS GONNA WORK. WITH THE RESERVATION  EVERY MORNING  WHAT YOU DO.  SITTIN' RIGHT ACROSS AT US AND GO... I DON'T HAVE TO LIVE UP  ALL THOSE DIFFERENT FEELINGS  DIFFERENT ATTITUDES.  HE JUST KIND OF CREATED  HIS OWN JOB. TO DO THINGS. D. MILES JR., OF SKATING.  THANK YOU. THAT WAS GREAT. IN SAN FRANCISCO.  THE GODFATHER. OF OUR TIME THAT WE HAVE NOW WHICH MEANS WE ARE GOING  BY DUMPING HER. BE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES. THROUGH YOUR NOSE. LET THIS OUT. THAT YOU WORE GLOVES, SU. IT WAS LIKE A SNAKE VOMITING.  THE TEMPERATURE IS  109.6 FAHRENHEIT, I GUESS.  OKAY, LET'S ROLL.  IF WE HAD LIKE THE DRIVER  AND THE NICE AIR-CON, BECAUSE WE'RE CONSTANTLY  CHOICES SO QUICKLY.  ABOUT THEM FOR AGES,  YOU CAN'T SIT THERE  SHOULD TAKE A RIGHT NOW  UMM...I'LL TAKE IT. FOR THE BEACH.  SANDY AND ERIC JENSEN, THEY  OPENED UP THEIR OWN THEATER.  ERIC, THEY'RE HERE. NICE TO MEET YOU. SU-YIN. GROWING UP I LOVED WATCHING MOVIES AND DOING THINGS, TO LAUGH A LOT GROWING UP. VERY STRICT UPBRINGING AND NOT HEARD. PEOPLE THOUGHT I CAN'T HEAR HER-- WITH MY HUSBAND, JUST CAME IN.  THAT'S MY WIFE  AND SHE'S BEEN DRINKING. WHAT HE TAUGHT ME IS WHEN I WAS SILLY AND I BROKE THAT, BECAUSE PEOPLE LAUGHED. A GOOD FEELING. AND PROPER AND, YOU KNOW, THINK THE PERCEPTION FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS, AROUND ERIC TOO LONG. MY PASSION COMES FROM LAUGHTER TO PEOPLE.  THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT  LIVE THEATER THAT JUST,  NOT BECOMING A DOCTOR  PEOPLE'S LIVES PHYSICALLY, PEOPLE'S LIVES EMOTIONALLY FROM MISERABLE!  WHEN I WAS ABOUT 3 YEARS OLD,  I SAID, "MOMMY, WHAT IS IT LAUGH, WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT?" A COMEDIAN." I WANT TO BE. KNOW WHAT THEY WANT TO DO, TO REALLY FOLLOW IT.  YOU SAID THAT YOU HAD  THE PASSION ABOUT HOW SMOOTH THE--  THE ROADBLOCKS? A PERCEPTION THAT WE HAVE OF THINKING THIS ISN'T WORTH IT.  OR DOUBT? OR DOUBT. ALL THE TIME,  A GUY STEP OUT ON STAGE, WHAT HE'S GOING TO SAY. THE DO RUN RUN. PERSON'S NAME RIGHT THERE. MARIANA.  AND HER NAME IS MARE ♪  THE DO-RUN-RUN ♪ IN HER TIMESHARE ♪ THE DO-RUN-RUN ♪  WITH THE WHOLE IMPROV,  I THOUGHT IT WAS  FOR OUR LIFE RIGHT NOW. AND THAT'S PROBABLY THE MOST WITH IS THAT'S GONNA BE LIKE WHAT THE NEXT LINE IS. THE FEAR OF NOT KNOWING NOT KNOWING WHAT PEOPLE  AND NOT LET THE FEAR AND LET SOMEONE ELSE? I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF FEAR IN LIFE AWAY FROM THE EDGE THAT WE PERCEIVE AS DANGEROUS, NOT THAT DANGEROUS. UNCOMFORTABLE, PERHAPS. AND NOT GETTING LAUGHS A LITTLE HUMILIATING "OH MY GOSH." JUST STEPPING ON STAGE YOU KNOW, IN ANYTHING, START GOING INTO IT, A LITTLE BIT AFRAID, WHAT GETS YOU ALL THE TIME. THROUGH THE FAILURE, GONNA GET OUT OF THIS? GONNA GET OUT OF IT?" IS WHAT KEEPS PEOPLE ON THE STAGE. SOMEBODY IN THE AUDIENCE SAYS-- IT CRACKS ME UP-- WITH A SPOTLIGHT, BECOMING AS VULNERABLE TAKING A CHANCE THERE IT IS. A COMPLETELY SAFE PLACE, SERIOUSLY, I HAVE EVER HEARD. "YOU SUCK." THAT'S ALL THEY GOT.  EVEN THOUGH WHEN  PEOPLE DOUBT YOU  WE'RE CONTINUING. "IF YOU'RE NOT MAKING THEN YOU SHOULD STOP." FOR 14 YEARS. THE MORNING AND GO DO YOUR JOB, IT DOESN'T BECOME A JOB,  WE ARE 2 WEEKS  INTO THE TRIP.  INTO EACH OTHER  HAPPENS EACH DAY. TODAY WE STARTED OFF IN COLORADO, WE'LL BE IN NEW MEXICO.  WHEN I LOOK BACK  ON THE LAST 2 YEARS,  IN THIS SEMI-COMATOSE STATE,  OF GOING TO WORK EVERY DAY  I WAS JUST WORRIED SWALLOW IT SO MUCH AND I'D BE THIS I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WANT TO DO.  CHRISTINA HEYNIGER,  WHICH IS A CONSULTING BUSINESS  TOURISM OPERATORS. WITH THAT JOB, A TOUGH TIME WAS GONNA DO. I'M STARTING NOW IN THIS POSITION IN MY LIFE IMPORTANT SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS AS IMPORTANT AT THE TIME. REALLY SIGNIFICANT FOR ME, I JUST WANTED TO LEAVE ALASKA WITH MY LIFE. I WENT AS FAR AWAY FROM ALASKA AND THEN AFTER CORNELL SORT OF FALL-APART WHAT TO DO WERE DOING IMPORTANT THINGS TO LAW SCHOOL WITH NO MONEY HAVE SOMETHING GOING ON ON THE WEEKENDS FARMER'S MARKET FOR 2 YEARS. BUMP INTO PEOPLE FROM CORNELL "WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE?" "I DON'T KNOW WOULD YOU LIKE SOME?" WENT ON AND EVENTUALLY IN A PROGRAM CALLED AND TECHNOLOGY. WITH A CONSULTING FIRM. WERE YOU THERE FOR? EIGHT YEARS AND THEN THE BIGGEST PROBLEM INSPIRED ME, YOU KNOW, OF FLAT-LINING AT MY JOB, I HAD NOT CREATED SPACE AND MY STRUCTURE DIFFERENT JOBS I WANTED, OF THE AMOUNT OF MONEY QUESTIONING THE WHOLE FOUNDATION I DON'T NEED TO MAKE THAT I HAVE, MAYBE I DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THEM. CRAZY OPTIONS. FOR ME WAS THIS TRIP BECAUSE I WAS FROM EVERYTHING, OUT OF THAT WAS, OKAY, A: SO WE CAN'T LET JOY GO. ALL THE THINGS. WHAT MADE ME JOYFUL WAS THE GRAND CANYON. I TOOK A LEAVE FROM MY JOB. TO RIVER COMPANIES AND SAID, TO BE A RIVER GUIDE?" THAT TOOK ME UP ON THAT. WE CAN TEACH YOU TO ROW AND MAYBE YOU'LL BE A GUIDE, YOU CAN COME-- A BUSINESS CONSULTANT, SOME IDEAS FOR US." OUT WHAT I WANTED TO BE.  YOU MENTIONED YOU BELIEVE  THAT EVERYONE HAS IN LIFE.  NOW YOU'VE FOUND IT? IT'S ONE OF THOSE-- A MOVING TARGET. AND I'M THINKING ABOUT: I'LL BE ABLE TO SEE, LIKE, HAS TO GIVE IS THEIR JOY. MOST HAPPY, THAT'S YOUR GIFT. THIS IS MONACO. THE FIFTH GENERATION.  DON'T BE AFRAID TO CAST  ASIDE THE WEIGHT OF FACTS.  THAT'S COOL.  I LIKE IT. IT'S JUST GOOD TO HAVE EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE UNCONVENTIONAL ROUTE ACCESS IN MY HEAD DOWN THIS PATH. THESE KINDS OF THINGS ARE NOT EASY. TO TAKE THAT CORPORATE JOB AND THEN TRY TO LIVE YOUR LIFE PROBABLY A MISTAKE. HAVE ONE LIFE.  MOST PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT THAT,  YOU KNOW, GOTTA MAKE MONEY.  FOLLOW THIS MOLD THERE IS NO MOLD.  I DON'T HAVE TO BE  PRIM AND PROPER  THAT PEOPLE THINK I SHOULD BE. SO THE TRICK, IF SOMEONE HAD TOLD ME SOMETHING POWERFUL WHATEVER THING MAKES YOU HAPPY, FROM THAT THING. WHAT THAT THING IS, IN ORDER TO FIND IT.  "ROADTRIP NATION"  EXTENDS BEYOND THE PROGRAM  THAT EMPOWERS OTHERS  ROAD-TRIP EXPERIENCES.  INTO THAT MOVEMENT. I'M BRENT BACHMAN. OF THE BROTHERS, THREE.  THE ESTABLISHED ONE  A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER,  I REALLY NEED THIS TRIP  I CAN SHARE IT REALLY THINK LIFE IS REALLY  FROM YOUR BACK DOOR.  WELLINGTON,  WITH COLIN SALISBURY. AT 18 I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO PAPUA, NEW GUINEA. FOR THE FIRST TIME REAL POVERTY. ESSENTIALLY, A FAMINE IN THE AREA. TO THE LAKE AND JUST, LIKE, AND THROWING IT INTO THE WATER ABOUT WHAT I'D SEEN RIPPLES ON THE WATER. WE STARTED A NUMBER OF RIPPLES,  'CAUSE EVERYBODY ALWAYS SAYS,  "AH, I'M JUST ONE PERSON. THIS ONE GUY IN HIS BEDROOM  TOUCHED PEOPLE UNTIL EVENTUALLY  OF THINGS GOING ON.  THE THREE OF US,  WE'RE FROM AUSTRALIA  A 5-WEEK ROAD TRIP  THE UNITED STATES.  TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT WE  ADMIRE OR WHO INSPIRE US,  ABOUT HOW THEY GOT  A BIG PART OF WHAT  HOLDS ME BACK IS FEAR.  THERE'S SOMETHING  IF YOUR BRAIN  AND YOUR HEART  SOMETHING DIFFERENT, SHOULD FOLLOW, FROM WITHIN.  CHECK OUT MORE ADVENTURES  AND INTERVIEWS FROM THE ROAD,  A ROAD TRIP OF YOUR OWN,  INTO YOUR CLASSROOM.  IS AVAILABLE ON DVD  ON YOUR SCREEN  ROADTRIPNATION.COM/STORE. IN DISBELIEF ♪ ON CHRISTMAS EVE ♪ A GRUESOME SCENE ♪ FOR THE CHIEF OF POLICE ♪ AND A CURSE ♪♪ 

<p>The RV breaks down as the team heads from Los Angeles to San Francisco before they interview law professor and children's rights activist Thomas Nazario. Then they go to Golden Gate Park to talk with David Miles, Jr., the "godfather of skating." Driving east into Utah, they visit the Great Salt Lake and talk with theater owners Eric and Sandy Jensen. The team pushes on to New Mexico and meets up with Christina Heyniger, an adventure tourism consultant.</p>

Los Angeles - Santa Fe

The art work here of what we do in improvisation, do in your own life. a conversation with your parents. whatever it is you're in trouble or sometimes you have to be able to break change is inevitable, right? change is a huge thing and sure of, they want it to be the same. you say whatever career path that I take, mind because I'm changing. what I think is important now at 21, I'm 21 years old, I should do this. it may not be when you're 31. change is inevitable, and it's okay. you're taking the step towards whatever it is you wanna do. see if you can learn something from it. 

Aussie Girls interview Eric & Sandy Jensen

Fear

Fulfillment

Change

(Roadtripper #1) Sandy and Eric Jensen. theatre. Eric! meet you. watching movies acting and doing things to laugh a lot growing up. strict upbringing where I spoke too softly, I could be who I really am. in! been drinking. What he taught me is, when I was silly and I broke that, laughed and I thought, proper and do everything of what I should be. and as I've been with him I'm loud and I'm obnoxious. been with Eric too long.' my passion comes from, laughter to people. There's something about live theatre that just, becoming a doctor people's lives physically people's lives emotionally years old, I said, that make people laugh? a comedian." want to be!" know what they want to do courage to really follow it. had the passion how smooth the journey was. a perception that we have thinking this isn't worth it. Or doubt. actor you get up and in improv he comes out on stage know what he's going to say. is play Da-Do-Run-Run. stood still, Da-Do-Run-Run! ♪♪  person's name, right there! Mariana. ♪ Met her on a Monday and her name is Mar', Da-Do-Run-Run. Da-Do-Run-Run Da-Do-Run-Run. legs with nair, Da-Do-Do Yeah!♪ ♪  With the whole improv, I thought it was a really good metaphor I don't have a script struggling the most with is, going to be like, the next line is.' fear of not knowing there, not knowing what people how they're going to react just stand in the sun I mean you have to have a little bit of fear in life because from the edge that is danger that we perceive as dangerous not that dangerous. little uncomfortable perhaps. of an audience not going to make you die. little humiliating going, "Ugh, my gosh‚" stage is the first step in anything, showing up. start going into it, bit afraid, whatever it is. gets you all the time. through the failure, I gonna get out of this?! gonna get out of it?" is what keeps people times on the stage. somebody in the audience says, they'll say, "You suck!" with a spotlight, vulnerable as he possibly can, to make you laugh, a completely safe place, with, seriously, I have ever heard, Even though when people doubt you and they tell you to stop, money then you should stop.' it for 14 years, something. up in the morning whatever it is, it becomes your life. 

Beliefs & Faith

Character

Choices

Confidence

Courage

Culture

Desire

Experience

Exploration

Family

Hard Work

Individualism

Money & Financial Security

Passion

Pressure

Pride

Risk

Success

Struggle

Interview

My dad told me, get a job that you, at least you don't that at least you can stand it. you can stand it, that's tough. barely stand doing it, but I'll do it, can just barely stand, and you do it. during the work day, doing that? something I enjoyed doing, or perhaps loved doing, which is what I did. $4 million, didn't have to work again yourself occupied, what would you do? to be rich through the rest of my life, somewhere and write plays, and and to maybe even educate the community, effect kids, mentor them. I think that's where I'd be the happiest. 

Bad Advice From Dad

I think, with this type of business, can break, or you can make it big. belief in yourself and move forward, even some people say, it's too much work, you're getting older. what do I do when I'm older? just plant a garden. anymore, doing what I love to do, and 

Don't Want To Retire

I think if you can overcome fear. >> That is so true. if you can overcome your fear. as an actress, okay. because people are gonna see you. is if she's ugly, I don't wanna cast her. you can break that boundary and stunts and things, and they laugh at it. are you okay? I broke that, I lost my fear, the perception of what I should be. making mistakes he said it's okay, a better actress because of that. [SOUND] get back on your feet and something from that mistake. 

Societal Pressures

Ok To Mess Up

I think a lot of people know what they wanna do, but they don't have the courage they don't even have the talent to do it. talented guy in the world, coronet, he loved to play the trumpet, but that's where the money was. or I could go into another field, because it's different all the time. 

Talent

Because you've done so many different things, and you're still in college and what were your parents thinking? >> They still are thinking, you out of that phase yet? aren't you done with that yet? I'm 40 years old [LAUGH]. I should know better I guess. they are concerned for me. thinking about your retirement and that's not the way they were brought up. went through their life. them just really scared for know how to give us advice or help. to just help us however you in our particular instance, friends and coming and supporting it. helps us out a little bit. you and wanting the best for you. retirement plan, cuz everyone's doing it. we just wanna life our life, where I'm jumping off a cliff, but I think this is a huge risk for doing what we love to do. people that admire that, and that look down on it. you're not gonna please everybody, so. >> [LAUGH] 

Support & Encouragement

Parents Worry

We'll do our little show, and from the Make a Wish Foundation. and what do they wanna do? they wanna maybe go, I don't know, go surfing or something. go to the Off Broadway Theater and head at 6 o'clock in the morning one day. I hope that's funny, we'll see. get it to be somewhat funny. see us do comical things on stage for at the end they wanna meet you and, I mean but you've made a difference, made a big difference in that one life. that is something that makes you feel, person's life at a time, and sometimes because you think, write something funny. this play what's gonna sell. that's not a good idea. then you just write it all down, and something sticks, you hope it's funny. hopefully, and sometimes it's not so it again, and make it funnier again. say, oh my gosh this was I'm so happy that we came here instead of and it's like a big blockbuster. but we wanted to see this because this the next couple of months, and, and this guy over here was so funny. live theater that just, changing people's lives physically, but emotionally a little better. we even have art in our lives, the quality of life. and we can work for a living, things that make us reflect, or laugh, or in our lives, then what's it all worth? question to ask yourself. I feel like I'm not building, building great buildings. a father high five [LAUGH]. >> And say that was awesome, oh, did you get that? he still says that was so funny. whatever, so. 

I'm still living my life. travel and some people with more money. are wealthy, that aren't happy. make a million dollars work for you. a difference in the world and because we bring laughter to people. my passion comes from, the community and it enriches my life. I've done something good in my life. a wonderful husband and great friends and more than that. happy to wake up in the morning and it doesn't become a job, 

Money Doesn't Buy Happiness

What prompted you to open your own theater? you guys, when we first started, like Eric and I, our personalities, very casual, peacemakers, so together to make it happen and see if it could work. the owner of the said you know, do this cuz you're an actor. you'll understand. was it [CROSSTALK] there's policies, there's politics. lib, you couldn't do certain things. this time or else you get in trouble, he'd write a play, and he'd say, mm. >> I don't like that. >> It's not gonna sell. did it someplace else? and we'd go out to a park. >> We'd go out to a park and we'd we're gonna do a show on Saturday night. it is gonna be really good. okay, well, we'll see. we were going to do it four nights, and and that was just really, really funny, just a lot of great comedy jokes. the people would be jogging by and and they'd watch for a little while. [LAUGH] it was just outdoors in a park. see we did on the Thursday and the Friday, 150 people, people come, and we just sat there and here to see our crummy little play. when we did that, that there was, I said this before, able to make people laugh. lives are usually full of doldrums, and they want to find something funny. things on television, but live, in your back yard, that is good and happier, brighter somehow. when people find that, they flock to it. it was amazing and it was a great night. people stayed through the rain, they just watched this thing. could do this if we had a permanent place. started doing it on a permanent basis. 

Dedication

Robin Hood

I'd encourage you guys, your heart to just keep doing it. try something and see if it works for you. not the all and end of things. everything so I can say yes I tried that, that I did that and I didn't go anywhere with that. might judge you for that. in it because I was curious. like I didn't care about selling makeup or I'm gonna try something else. just go out there and try it. you can't wait to get there and do it. you feel so good when you wake up and you go, you know what, you feel good about it, stick with it. know if that is something you wanna do. 

Dabble

We wanna talk a little bit more about the time when you weren't so sure about what way through to get to where you are now. >> What, were you out of college? because as we were driving here today, in your [LAUGH] eyes we're successful. go, we're successful? >> We're the ones they want? saying, I mean, maybe you have maybe moment of thinking this isn't worth it. >> Or doubt, oh my gosh, all the time. show tonight, you'll see a guy step not know what he's going to say. here I go and, you know, might be just absolutely lunacy and make sense and it's not that funny. I'm just throwing 60%. it might be 80% is great and 20% is bad. it depends on the audience. that is definitely not good and a different direction. done it or whatever, but great and so fresh and so happy that you dared to do that. 

I'm hard on myself, too. oh, I could have done that better. that's another thing that drives me. yet to do even the perfect performance, where I'm like, hey, that's pretty good. have done that one little thing better. probably drives her crazy, but allows me to keep trying, for a better instead of just stay at the same thing. anybody ever be a bank teller? >> What? the same process, because I would do it, and numbers, adding them, subtracting, checks, I'm thinking of jokes and come in and say, sorry about the wait. [LAUGH] or [LAUGH] just terrible jokes. but I couldn't do that work. and it's a very necessary job. to do it the exact same over and they love doing it exactly the same. the things that are monotonous, I don't focus on them. Hawaii, or I'm writing a two-man show. I should be reading, [LAUGH] or whatever, just those type of things. that is great because it keeps challenging things, so it's an awesome thing. you affect people differently, too. I think that's just your character. you great at whatever it is you do. comes to anything artistic. to add in, where another actor or yeah, it's okay, that'll do. and say, okay, that's good enough, that's gonna be good enough. and every time they pass the painting, otherwise they'll keep messing with it, things to make it different, and are open, but we'll always do them again. subtracted or different, or boring, we cut out and an improved version of it, so. 

Perfectionist

Tell her some stuff that you did. >> Oh yeah, I- normal things that everybody did. >> Tell her about the M&M job. where I just put M&M's in a vat for where I just went boop! you know what I would really like to do. why I took those jobs and isn't this what you wanna do. not necessarily boring, and that's what you wanna be doing huh? jobs, it forced me into what I want to do. there that I love even more than this, but batteries more than anything else. 

Past Jobs

I met my husband, found out he was an actor, had a passion for it. until after, probably about six months actually did a show and I loved it. picture myself acting and doing things but you're in high school to get a feel. a mentorship where you go in and might like to work with children, elderly. I did not have the stomach for take me out of the elderly section, into concession area. be the next generation in business or in art or you know be in the medical field. you know, I need to be a doctor but you can't stand the sight of blood. I can't stand the sight of blood. I'm gonna kill them, you know? 

Parental Pressure

I look at our lives and I say yeah, we struggle. he knew what he wanted. pretty much anything. but I'm good at whatever I do. I can be good at it. since I love it so much too, and to do things that I would never do I can make people laugh. a lot growing up, I had a very strict, where I was seen and not heard. >> Well Vietnam in the 1960s, I know when I wanted to marry someone or that was my goal as a girl growing up. that makes me laugh. with other people but my demeanor, even when I first met him, years, now I'm loud and I'm obnoxious. you've been around Eric too long. function and the potty jokes. I can be who I really am. but yet, the dirty raunchy. >> If I wanted to be, and it's okay. to see mom and dad doing both parts. is that I help my husband be happy. happy as well as myself. though when people doubt you and because we find ways to make it work. somebody tells you you can't. 

Reserved Child

I like to know you more about, you did all these jobs and you'd finished college. I wanted to have my own theater, question because even then, a theatre cuz it takes a lot of money. this theory of fear and things like that. I had a couple of friends that did acting, and I had a lot of experience from I had a little, I knew what to do. were telling me were ultimate rules. [LAUGH] really that was wrong advice. were saying wasn't true, and so for myself that these ideas that I had even better than theirs. the Desert Star Playhouse, and them and I started realizing that God, all on my own one day, the lighting and who I cast, who I work with, such an amazing thing to do. that scared me again, but I thought, where I've just been so in the middle of the Walmart and cry. the money was coming from. how I was gonna to do that. believe that it's gonna get done. it always does every time. as I wanted it to be, the way I wanted but it still got done. much that it was certainly worth it. >> It was 

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[Eric] There's something about live theater that just-- becoming a doctor where physically, but sometimes emotionally a little better. years old, I said, that make people laugh, She says, "A comic, a comedian." what I wanna be." know what they wanna do, courage to really follow it. a perception that we have of thinking, Or doubt or "Oh my gosh" especially as an actor. what gets you all the time. through the failure, "How am I gonna get out of this? gonna get out of it?" keeps people from trying anyway. 

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