my first post here.
i feel like this should be short. i always write too much. sorry if this is too long and goes against some rule about how newbies shouldn't write too much.
hi! this is my very first post here.
when i was 13, i wanted to be an actress. i didn't even know why. i wasn't even that good. i never got any lead roles in school plays or anything. my mother enrolled me and my sister in an outside-of-school acting course for pre-teens/teens. it was called "way off broadway" (long island). my first taste of improv was there. my sister and i were pretty good at "zip zap zoop" and i knew i really liked making stuff up as i went along. i also hated the dramatic stuff. i loathed fake-crying. i liked comedy.
eventually my acting dreams turned into music dreams - i had always sung and played piano - and after college (where, regrettably, i did not take a single acting class) i moved to NYC to become a poor, struggling singer/songwriter, which i still am. the first couple years here, i took a couple of commercial and improv classes at the Creative Acting Company (where they managed to convince me that i had a "great commercial look" - probably said to every person starting there) and for awhile there i thought maybe i could be in commercials. wouldn't you know it, it wasn't that easy. i never did any commercials.
a couple years later, still pursuing the music career, i took a voice class at HB Studio. i noticed they had improv classes there as well, so i took one. it was pretty fun, though the class was too big (over 30 people i think) and the teacher was all bitter and it didn't seem like she really enjoyed teaching.
improv then became one of those things that i really wanted to study again "at some point." well, this year has become a series of frustrations concerning my music career and i've become restless and confused. i will still pursue music, but i've had more of a desire to do other stuff as well, even if it's just for fun. a few weeks ago, i finally got to the point where "at some point" turned into "NOW." i'd heard great things about UCB. i signed up for a class and have attended 5 shows in the last couple of weeks, all varying from pretty funny to downright hilarious.
my class starts this saturday. i can't wait!
that's all i got, at least for now. hope to meet a lot of you along the way!
- ari scott
p.s. apologies to anyone offended by inconsistent capitalization.
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