Why care? 

The point of acting, according to an old teacher of mine, is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comforted. Now, while I'm sure this is probably a quote he heard from some old dead guy who heard it from some old dead guy blah blah yadda yadda yadda, so on and so forth until it was my turn to hear it from someone who wasn't really that old and isn't dead yet, I think it captures the essence of why I want to perform perfectly. While Brecht may disagree with me, I find the magic of theatre to be how the audience is changed from the time they have sat down to the time they leave. That is the point of good art. To stir something within the viewer, be it conscious or subconscious, to inspire some kind of emotional response. I couldn't tell you the first time I cried from stubbing my toe or the first time I got stressed out by a paper in school, but I will remember for the rest of my life the bittersweet tears I shed watching La Cage Aux Folles. I can tell you how excited I got watching The Music Man when I was 4 years old, even though it was just my cousin's high school performance. I can tell you the exact moment I realized that acting could be a real career and not just a hobby, and the joy that ensued. I want to spend the rest of my life making people feel. I want to bring wonderful sadness and overwhelming exuberance to the stage and to the screen to be seen by anyone who can watch. Can acting change the world? Could Andrew Lloyd Weber's Cats solve a conflict on a mass global scale? Maybe. Probably not. But I know it could make someone smile. I know someone who just lost their job or someone who got dumped might forget about whatever their problem is and however shitty it might make them feel for a just second and sink into a semi-uncomfortable chair next to some complete strangers and experience a few brief, uninterrupted moments of bliss. If you would like to bring that to an audience, I would love to work with you.