Tom Pelphrey

What a gift.

What a gift.

What a gift.

And he spoke to all of us like we were paid professionals.

It was incredible.

I think if I hadn't had that experience, I don't know if I would have done it because...

What that experience gives you is an insane work ethic.

If what you're doing is very important, he also drilled into us, you are a part of something greater.

So even if you were the lead in the play, you didn't have to rehearse that day, you stayed and helped build the sets.

There wasn't a question about that.

And so it builds the sense of we're all here to do something that's bigger than any one of us could do by ourselves.

And you're a team and you support everybody else on the team.

That's lovely.

Incredible.

You were doing shit at night.

Class until six, and then there'd be a main stage show.

And then you'd work on that from seven to 11.

You'd either act in the show or you were running some part of the backstage to learn how to do that.

And then from 11 p.m.

to 1 a.m., we had two different black box theaters.