Dulcé Sloan

And I was like, huh?

And so one, I could see that my mother was very supportive of me, but it was also her defining for me, you have to decide who you're going to be, not someone else.

So since this lady just didn't want me to be... Because my audition went well, and she said it went well, and then she put me in the lighting department.

Also...

It was a theater.

The school had been destroyed by Hurricane Andrew.

So the theater was inside of, it was going to be in the cafeteria, you know, a cafetorium that they put in elementary schools.

What lights was I supposed to be running?

I'm 11.

I'm not climbing up to the ceiling and adjusting lights.

So what was I actually going to be doing?

Nothing.

And so my mother was like, no, you're not doing it.

And that was helpful to me because it was just like, oh, she's like, this is not what you're supposed to be doing.

So you're not going to do it.

Yeah, because it's like when I was in.

So I get to middle school.

I was in the theater high school.

I did all the plays college.

I got a theater degree and my college professor or whatever wasn't as supportive as he needed to be as a teacher.