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Aug 01, 2016 Exploration Programs Conversation

Meet Reed from Connecticut

Being a student for two sessions in a row, Reed goes deeper into understanding the sciences and acting. One as a hobby, the other as a possible career choice.

Mari Armei

Being a day student for two sessions in a row, Reed goes deeper into understanding the sciences and acting. One as a hobby, the other as a possible career choice. Nevertheless, they’re both close to his heart and equally fun to learn!


I am taking Infectuous Disease + Immunology and Acting + Directing. I have done some acting in my school, so it’s something I’m interested in and would like to do more of. And I like sciences. I’d like to go into medicine eventually, so infectuous disease is something interesting to look at. It’s pathogens and antigens and all that stuff, bacteria and viruses. We had an interesting discussion about how viruses aren’t technically alive. I never really knew that.

I like biology and anatomy and all that stuff generally. My mom’s a nurse practitioner and it’s just something that comes easier to me. I enjoy it. It’s like a type of career where you can help people, so I like the idea of that. I’d like to go into something with more patient contact, so I’d be talking with people, not just sitting at a desk all the time.

But for the acting class that I' took'm taking, I wanted to grow as an actor, and better understand the nuances behind acting. I’ve acted in a show before, but I’ve never taken a class for it. I just did the show and an improv club. I wanted to see what the class would be like. I actually want to kind of get an idea for the directing, too. Because I want to direct a play at my school. I’ve never done that before. Now I get to have some ideas.

During the first session, I took Writing for Stage + Screen, so I started writing a play in that. It started when the visiting author – Kelly Corrigan – came. She gave us a writing exercise. It was to write one scene where two people have a first kiss. And then write a second scene, where they meet up at Explo as teachers. So it’s many years later and like an awkwardness-type of a thing. When I did the writing exercise, I got a good amount of laughs. I tried to make it funny, so I continued writing it. And basically what I’m doing is that after the years, you can tell that something happened between them that caused them to break up, but you don’t know what it is. So the guy thinks it’s one thing and you have a flashback of that, and the girl thinks it’s something else and you have a flashback for that. I want to finish that play and perform it at my school.

Mari Armei