After last year's devastating blow to my ego, I needed some extra help convincing myself to try for Graduate School. Lucky for me the White Wizard was able to convince me, and once again I applied to Graduate Schools this year. I applied to 6 schools and got invited to interview with 4 of them. The interviews were held in New York at the end of January.
Now I had never been to New York, or stayed anywhere that cold, or any place that had snow for that matter. Lucky for me I was given an awesome jacket, and some gloves and was told to wear LOTS of layers. I survived the cold and the brief encounter with the city. Sadly I got sick my one free day there and wasn't able to see any plays! :-( But my interviews the day before went amazing! I also got to see a friend I had not seen in a very long time and had a BLAST out on the town that night!
I honestly felt my interview with the school located in England went the best. It was the only interview that was paired with someone else and the guy and I had been talking for an hour together prior to being interviewed together. We both did not know that the interview was going to be paired or that we would be paired together so it worked out rather well and we helped each other out during the interview. The original person who was suppose to interview the directing candidates was injured right before he was suppose to leave the country so his colleague had to split his time from the acting auditions and fit all of us interviewing for their directing spots into his busy schedule. The other interviews went really well too. Well probably minus the first one where I showed up 15 minutes late because I went to the wrong place and had to run 8 blocks with a heavy bag while experiencing real snow for the first time! That interview (minus being late) wasn't too bad, the interviewer kindly gave me extra time and I made sure I was early for the next interviews.
Finally returning home from an exciting weekend in New York I had to wait three weeks to find out if I had been accepted. Felt like the longest three weeks of my life. And once the three weeks was over there was the possibility that I may have to wait another three weeks. See, the schools were allowed to start making offers on Feb 17th, and they could make offers up till March 9th. Finally after waiting for the three endless weeks to end Sunday Feb 16 came. I did not have work on the 17th so I knew i could sleep in so I took some ZZzz Quil to help make sure I fell asleep. My whole life could possibly be changing within a matter of hours... I was surprised the ZZzz Quil worked because I was so nervous!
That morning when I opened my eyes I immediately grabbed my cell phone to check my email. And waiting for me was one email. As I fumbled to sit up and open my email account to see if it was an acceptance from a grad school or just old navy trying to entice me to come in and spend my whole pay check in their store. Low and behold, it was from East 15 Acting School in England! The email said they were excited to make me an offer at East 15 in their MFA Theatre Directing Program!! And just like that I was in! A program wanted me!!! :-)
At the end of the three week period where schools could make their offers only East 15 had given me a spot. Which is beyond okay because that meant I didn't have to decide between schools and it is in freaking London!!!!! (or rather 40 mins away from London but close enough!!) Plus the program is only two years and the other MFA programs I had applied to here in the States are three year programs. So I'll be done before I'm 30! (Eeep 30!)
I have a ton of planning, things to do, and people to see before I leave (probably at the end of August or start of September). So come along on this incredible adventure with me! I will be posting updates about this experience and all the silliness I get myself into! :-)
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