Michigan One - Transcription
I was born actually in the city of Detroit, and then when I was six months old, my parents moved to Dearborn Heights, which is about ten minutes outside of Detroit, it's a suburb of Detroit, and, uh, I lived there my entire life until three years ago we moved to Dearborn, which is different than Dearborn Heights, it is right next to it and a little closer, actually to the city of Detroit. And that's where I lived since then, so all my life I've been around the city, I've never moved for any significant length of time.
I'm ready to go, I'm ready to be somewhere else, I think, for a while, a warmer climate. But, yeah, it's been good. I don't love Detroit, I think it wasn't, it definitely wasn't a bad place to grow up, but I think that, uh, I would like to spend the rest of my life, somewhere closer to nature, whether that's very near a beach, or you know a forest or something like that, I think I'd love to be somewhere closer to nature, I feel like we are very industrialized around here, I went through public schools, my mother wanted us to go through the same school system from kindergarten till twelfth grade because she moved a lot when she was growing up and she didn't want my sister and I to have to change schools and we didn't. So we stayed in the same school system from kindergarten through twelfth grade and then I went to community college for two years. And I got an associate's degree in arts, in fine arts, the real arts, And then I stopped and started working fulltime. I'm an actor right now, I'm lucky enough to be a full time actor. And I work at the Second City, which is a Comedy Theater in downtown Detroit, so I guess I'm back in the city where I started off, and we write and perform comedy theater full time, seven shows a week. I came to the Second City through more, much more of a comedy route than most people take. And, uh, I've learned a lot more about acting along the way and I think the flipside of that, a lot of people come through acting, they are theater majors and maybe they learn a lot more about comedy once they get there, so, really, I think it's a good plan, a great plan, to have some people who have come from both sides of that and end up in an ensemble together and I think it is good, it complements each other very well.
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