A Wild Ride with the YC
posted by Naomi Kunstler, A.C.T. Young Conservatory student A.C.T. Young Conservatory students are sharp. We’d heard it from everyone: YC Director Craig Slaight; Karen Hartman, author of Wild Kate (a new play commissioned by the A.C.T. M.F.A. Program and YC); the M.F.A. Program students who’ve worked with them on conservatory coproductions and in A Christmas Carol . So when we knew they were in the building rehearsing Wild Kate , we didn’t want to miss the chance to let them weigh in on young actor training and the dark hilarity of Wild Kate ’s nautical adventures. Naomi Kunstler, a junior at Convent of the Sacred Heart high school, pulls us into the nitty gritty of rehearsal as only a true actor could. —The A.C.T. Intern Blog Quadrumvirate The first day of rehearsal I’m sitting in my chair during our line-through and I can barely stay in my seat I am so excited. The room is packed with the cast, crew, playwright, director, lighting designer, sound designer, choreogra...