Working with our class

I have always thought that more people working together is so much better than one person working by themselves, which is why I have loved getting the opportunity to put this performance together with the whole class. It’s one of the things I love most about theater - the community that results from the performance or show that you are doing. Many brains and bodies being put together tends to create amazing things. I’ve seen how friendship grows so deep as you experience the rehearsal process together since the whole cast learns and grows (and sometimes suffers :) alongside each other. I also think that for this particular performance, the collaboration of telling many people’s stories is just so powerful. I hope to impact everyone in the room with each individual story being told - and this definitely wouldn’t be the same if it was just me doing the performance. Another reason this is so cool is because a lot of these stories are close to home. Several of these people grew up here, in the Chattanooga area, and as someone who is living in the same area, it’s crazy to think that we are telling stories that happened in the same place as I live right now. Overall, the collaboration of working with the class has just been an awesome experience and each person in our class brings their own set of gifts to the table! They are all wonderful to work with