Quotes About Regional theater

I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

I started working in New York City as an actor and did many plays. I did regional theater, smaller theaters, children's theater.

Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

I never imagined I was going to do movies. My dreams were to become a regional theater actor.

Immediately after school, I did a lot of regional theater. I was in Berkeley and Princeton and Minneapolis and all over the country doing wonderful plays for the local audiences.

My career, definitely, the early years were a little scattershot, in terms of - it was a little regional theater, it was a lot of voiceovers, it was a lot of random day jobs. I mean, it was hard. It was hard to scrap around, and once 'Hairspray' happened, then it all kind of clicked into place.

I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.