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10 Questions with 10 Actors by Barbara Janice Kielhofer
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Actor #6: Mara Gannon
n1. What made you realize you wanted be an actor? nnApparently when I was little, I said I wanted to be an actor. I first REALIZED I wanted to be an actor when I was a junior in high school and someone mentioned going to school for theatre. I then realized that this was a career choice.nn2. What makes someone a New Yorker? nnWhen you, every so often, have that moment of, “Holy shit, I live here.” Also, when you feel that pang of guilt for every homeless person you walk past. Humanity and humility.nn3. If you weren’t an actor what would be your ideal occupation? nnBeer taste tester.nn4. Who (or what) is your mortal enemy? nnPeople who don’t let you off the subway car before they start to board it.nn5. Movies or theatre? nnTheatre. Anything done live feels so much more dangerous.nn6. Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? nnCormac O’Connor from Pete Hamill’s “Forever”.nn7. What’s your favorite vice? nnChewy fruity candy.nn8. What do you hate most about living in New York? nnThe fact that a beach is so far away. I know, I know, it’s only like an hour but that’s so far away to me! I grew up 4 blocks from an ocean. An hour?! GUH.nn9. If age, type, or gender were no issue what would your dream role be? nnIago. Friar Lawrence. Martha from “Woolf”. The Baker’s Wife in “Into the Woods”. I have a long list of these…nn10. If you could give one piece of advice to yourself at the age of 12, what would it be? nnDon’t worry about being wrong. Being wrong is good. You learn from being wrong. You’ll do it 99 times before you get anything even close to right. Just keep trying.n
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You can catch Mara in Apothecary Theatre’s latest production How I Learned To Become A Superhero, playing April 4 – April 27 at T. Schreiber Studio’s Gloria Maddox Theatre.
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For more information go to www.apothecarytheatrecompany.org
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