Miranda

And I come from a background that wasn't the best, meaning I didn't have a huge support system back home really at all.

And also, I grew up pretty poor.

It was in our first meeting that he began to offer me scholarship money for school.

When I started my freshman year, he was just a tenured professor.

And when I moved into my sophomore year of school, he became the head of the theater department.

He was, after my freshman year, the person with the highest authority in the room at any given time.

other than when the Dean of College and Fine Arts was in the room.

But for us as students, he was for sure the most important person in the room.

He directed a lot of plays as well and taught the more advanced acting classes.

We had plenty of other competent and good professors, but he was seen as the coolest professor and the one with the most intense training.

And he did a very good job of painting himself as the smartest person ever.

In the first couple of meetings, I think he was really quick to disclose that he also had a chaotic and abusive childhood.

He spent a lot of time in Montana and had his PhD.

He told me about his acting training and how it was difficult.

different than the other professors there.

I feel like I didn't really learn a lot about him at all.

That would come over time and also mostly through the rumor mill of other students as well.

I feel like things that he neglected to mention were that he was married.

and that he had a daughter.

Stuff like that, I think I learned from students who knew him a bit better than I did.