Back to School

Four years ago, I was taking some on-camera class and was struck by the talent of one of my classmates. He was damn good. He mentioned he was under the tutelage of a man named Wynn.

A year later, I was in a show with a woman - now a dear friend - who mentioned she'd also worked with this teacher, and that you needed a referral to join the class. I left it at that, and somewhat forgot about pursuing it any further, swallowed up by my midnight-8am job in midtown as a client services manager at a financial printing firm.

But while I was away from NYC the past two months -- doing a wonderful show that rhymes with "Duh Erty Ein Eps" --I also started something called "the Artist's Way". And one of the assignments in the book led me back to this man named Wynn.

It urged me to announce a goal - that year. It then urged me to identify the thing I could do that day to set me sailing towards that goal...

The thing I did was ask my dear friend for Wynn's number (it is --- hard to believe --- an unlisted number which no amount of googling can reveal).

I called that day and left a message.

A month later, after an audition, a callback....I'm enrolled in his class.

Tonight was my surprise first class -- a bit earlier than expected.

I'm to work on some monologues from "The Spoon River Anthologies" -- something we had bought for first year at the conservatory way back when but never got to it in our Meisner training.

"You are to work on characters. Because that is what is in your future. And you will work on the monologues and characters so that in the future, you can easily pick them up and be better than everyone else at them".

So, here I am.....

Back to school.

Oh, you don't know who Wynn is? Check THIS out.