The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.
Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
