The last famous actress who came from Alberta was Tricia Helfer (nuBattlestar Galactica). For famous actors, Nathan Filion is from Edmonton (One Life to Live, Firefly, etc.).
I think my mother was glad I got to be part of the brick house, though - because it meant that I didn't have to fall down on the dusty stage when the wolf blew down the houses - and so I wouldn't get my clothes dirty...
Let's see... for the life of me, I can't recall my Grade 4 Christmas concert and if I had any part of it. I know I didn't the year before. In Grade 5 I joined the school choir and we put on a brief performance one afternoon. I got to dress up like a hobo and sing "Country Roads" while trying to hitch a ride.
Grade 6... that was my first time doing "backstage" work. I provided the sound of the ship dredging the river for the bodies of Tom Sawyer and his friends (and also got to be one of the townsfolk boo-hooing at the boys' funeral) when our class did "Tom Sawyer".
I think my mother was glad I got to be part of the brick house, though - because it meant that I didn't have to fall down on the dusty stage when the wolf blew down the houses - and so I wouldn't get my clothes dirty...
Let's see... for the life of me, I can't recall my Grade 4 Christmas concert and if I had any part of it. I know I didn't the year before. In Grade 5 I joined the school choir and we put on a brief performance one afternoon. I got to dress up like a hobo and sing "Country Roads" while trying to hitch a ride.
Grade 6... that was my first time doing "backstage" work. I provided the sound of the ship dredging the river for the bodies of Tom Sawyer and his friends (and also got to be one of the townsfolk boo-hooing at the boys' funeral) when our class did "Tom Sawyer".
(1999) I took some (Maybe once a week?) acting classes somewhere in the Atlanta suburbs. Don't recall much. They were very basic classes. I didn't appreciate them much at the time. I thought I was good or something. Early on I found I was wrong. Most or all of my fellow students were younger than me and I felt of out of place. Eh they all seemed naturally too immature and silly for me. The lessons were often silly excercises 
or something I don't remember but I recall feeling that the classes were beneath me. I almost quit after the first class yet stayed for some reason. In a way I couldn't believe that I was convinced to stay longer. Perhaps it was a matter of what else was there to do maybe I dunno 
. Well I stayed longer and I very slowly gradually came to fascinating realization. I was the problem, not the class. While the presence of little kids may have made the classes generally a bit out of sync with my maturity level such a matter is not inherently a problem now it it? Foundational to good acting is a appreciation of behavior in all its forms. Considering any kind of behavior to be unacceptable is the attitude of someone who does not not find merely behaving to be inherently appealing. A actor kinda has to appreciate behaving for just the joy it. Not be tied down to any particular way of behaving. I mean when a person is performing as someone else they should of course actually like doing so. If course the character could be very objectionable . The actor however can't disapprove of the character. They must instead seperate their real world character form their stage world self. Its unnatural to think this way. I never previously lived this way. But its my fault by genetics or choice if I could not adapt. In all fairness I spent much of my childhood days slow to mature and highly picked 
on so naturally I was highly adverse to behaving in any way that wasn't the best, the most mature, most dignified and well stiff. This silliness of the class was not improper but rather represented the first challenge I needed to overcome. The challenge of getting past my self yes I did that, actually it took me many years after those classes for me to appreciate much of this concept but I like to think that my experience in the classes at least got the seed planted.
And its not much to say. The ensemble 
skit was involving school kids and their teacher. Kinda funny is the theme. My character slept in from the day before 
. Not many lines and I wasn't really acting but rather just trying to sound funny with my few lines. But at least had a little bit of enthusiasm for the effort. The solo 
skit involved me trying to claim credit for planning and meaning and going to but not actually doing something. Really short but I seemed 50% more enthused. The character tried to speak each line in every different persuasive style he could think of. Overall kinda confident 
, desperate 
, begging 
at the same time. I rose to the scripts simple occasion. Although my voice changing involved abrupt unnatural transitions. So you know I was at least starting to learn something, a little. 
