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10 Questions with 10 Actors by Barbara Janice Kielhofer
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Actor #7: Curran Connor
n1. What made you realize you wanted be an actor?nnThe Year: 1995. The Film: Ace Ventura Pet Detective. The viewer: Me. And now I’m an actor. I’m not kidding.nn2. What makes someone a New Yorker? nnThe sense of superiority one feels over people who don’t live in New York.nn3. If you weren’t an actor what would be your ideal occupation?nnAn illustrator. I drew comics as a kid, and nothing made me feel more creative.nn4. Who (or what) is your mortal enemy?nnDennis Flanagan. Next question.nn5. Movies or theatre?nnI don’t have a preference. I think the immediacy of theatre can make it more exciting, and more frightening, but the scope and scale of film is unmatched. I’m interested in whatever can thrill, surprise, and stimulate me. That’s why I’ll keep going to the theater and to the movies til the day I die.nnSeriously, tho, Dennis Flanagan is my mortal enemy. If I end up dead, he’s the one who did it.nn6. Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? nnStefon.nn7. What’s your favorite vice? nnTotto Ramen on 52nd.nn8. What do you hate most about living in New York? nnPeople who talk about how great New York used to be, making the rest of us feel like tourists.nn9. If age, type, or gender were no issue what would your dream role be?nnThe Internet. nn10. If you could give one piece of advice to yourself at the age of 12, what would it be?nnGet a job. Also, don’t beat yourself up over every little thing.n
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You can catch Curran 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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