OK, it's my turn to weigh in on the "Bad Girls" brouhaha.
Kate Squillace was my theater student at St. Mel's School 16 years ago.
Yes, I was her first drama teacher all those years ago, so you can blame me for her acts of professionalism in this current controversial endeavor.
When she was 8-years-old — in third grade — she was cast as Snow White over a bunch of fourth, fifth and sixth-graders, and even then, she could take and consider direction and make actor's choices on her own when performing, even in a kids play.
As the years passed, Kate got lead after lead in that and other theater programs. Always, she could do a lot more listening than the other actors and again, make the choices in performance that good actors make.
Honesty is the key in acting; listening and watching the other performers and responding honestly, often using the frustrations and joys of her own life to match the desired emotions demanded of her in the scene's objective
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