The story here is that a large number of college students today are acting as college students always have — baldly lifting whole passages for their term papers from other sources.
But it was while taking acting in college that I realised I preferred the study of the text more than performing it.
Mr. Gould, who had a Ph.D. in dramatic speech and literature from Cornell, taught acting in college before he became a professional actor.
BUT as he pursued acting in college and then in graduate school, he fretted over whether he was performing for the right reasons.
He started acting in college drama societies and was singled out for praise by the student and national press during his first year.
And then a teacher of mine at high school said, "Why don't you study acting at college?" On some level I've just fallen into it.' She studied acting at SUNY, where her contemporaries included Wesley Snipes, Posey Parker, Stanley Tucci and directors Hal Hartley, Nick Gomez and Eric Mendelsohn.
When I first started acting in college we did rock musicals, "Trojan Women" as a musical, all that kind of stuff we did back in those days when we were brave.
Despite earlier misgivings, he had enjoyed acting in college productions, and, while working, enrolled with the actor-teacher Eva Le Gallienne, who in 1955 urged him to quit his job and return to New York City.
"I was born with cerebral palsy," he told The Washington Post in a telephone interview Tuesday night, recounting how he wasn't allowed to pursue acting in college because the university theater wasn't wheelchair accessible, and how his expensive wheelchair was stolen last year while he watched after a friend's apartment.
