Dorkboy

One time my musical director told me how as I worked my way into professional theatre I would find myself always being typecast as a certain type of character. Today I learned the role I’ll be playing for years to come. Today I learned that I will be playing myself. Last winter I was cast as Dorkboy in The Real Me. As the name suggests, I was a playing a dork. But I was playing so much more than a dork, I was being myself on stage. I was Dorkboy and Dorkboy was me.

This winter I’m playing another flirty dork. I’m once again basically playing myself. And honestly I think it’s the best kind of character out there for me. It’s a very comical character who gets the best lines, just like me. It’s the character who you just want to see get the girl for once, but you know he never will, just like me. I get to play myself and it’s the greatest thing because I’m able to bring that character to life like nobody else could. 

Of course from time to time I get to perform as completely different characters, but I have become every role I’ve ever played. So even when I’m not Dorkboy, I still very much connect with who I’m supposed to be.