Michael Arden

I'd bring my grandmother in and be like, okay, this is what happens here.

This is a house and there's an old couple that lives here and they sit in this chair.

I would describe the place.

What did they make of this?

I don't know.

I mean...

They had to think it was a little strange, probably, but they never let me feel like it was strange.

I'm so grateful.

When I interviewed Dane Laffrey, he talked about how Robin Ellis and David Monti were the force behind the training at Interlochen.

And they both had a really outsized impact on you both.

And I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit about how.

Yeah.

Well, Robin Ellis and David Monti were our high school teachers.

He ran the department and a married couple.

And they both taught acting and both directed – he directed merrily.

David did.

And I think what was so incredible about what I learned from it is they never treated us like kids.

They just like treated us like adult professionals and that kind of like –

has made my – I think the transition from being a student or a young person to adulthood so much smoother because of that.

And they instilled in me like a great sense of – and all of us, a great sense of discipline and unswerving rigor.