I really enjoyed the first scenes that we did in our acting class. I didn’t really have any idea who I would be partnered up with and so I was very grateful when Savannah asked me to be her scene partner. She is a good friend and a good actress and I was very excited to work with her. Then we came to the dilemma of what we are going to perform and neither of us really had a good idea of what we should do. There was one day where I was lying down to go to bed when all of a sudden I remembered this play that I had read and done scenes from during high school. The problem was, I couldn’t remember the name of the play to save my life! I had no idea what I was going to do. I tried a Google search with the few pieces of information that I could remember about the play but couldn’t find anything. Luckily, I have a friend here at SUU that was in that drama class with me, so I texted him to see if he remembered. I loved his response, “Dude, I don’t know why I still know this… but it is most definitely called Jerry Finnegan’s Sister. I’m pretty sure I can still do that scene!” I was so happy that he remembered what it was called!

When Savannah read Jerry Finnegan’s Sister, she immediately loved it! It was very fun to read this, work on it, and realize how we are both so similar to these characters, Beth and Brian. Savannah was very fun to work with for this scene. I’m really glad that she has a mind to think about blocking because I’m not exactly sure what I would have done for blocking. The thing that surprised me the most that helped us was the day before we performed the first time, we had a rehearsal were we also ended up having a very interesting heart to heart. Talking about who we are as actors and what not. This conversation was a great catalyst for us to connect in this scene. The scene came together well by the time we got to that first performance in class but I was excited to see what people thought and how we could improve. I was very appreciative of the comments from the class. One of those comments were that I was playing the jokes that are in the script as opposed to playing the character and letting the character be funny. This was something that I was very appreciative of because that really would have been my approach to any comedic character. This has really helped me to change how I would approach a humorous part. Authenticity was another big focus. I was eager to apply these things and improve the scene.