Deirdre
teamed up with NHTP for two years, and during that time had the
pleasure of performing in, The
Mad Women Of Challiot, MacBeth and
two of NHTP's summer programs. After graduating from PHS, she studied
at a two year acting conservatory (one year in NYC and the other in
Los Angeles), and eventually relocated to NYC and began acting in
independent film. She has been collaborating with her now fiancé for
the past five years and has been a part of the acting, producing and
now the directing aspect of film. Her directorial debut, My
Little Friend(which
was based in shot in Portsmouth, NH), had its premiere at the North
Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival this summer. She also had
the lead role in the feature film Everyone
Says I Look Just Like Her which
is currently being distributed on iTunes, Amazon, and DVD.
"When
I think back on NHTP, I remember a lot of laughing and a lot of
sweating. The laughing for the obvious reason- Surrounded by artists
with humor I usually couldn't keep up with and being in scenes with
these same people, trying to keep my cool and not breaking.... all
this after a long day at school. The sweating was something else- As
much as I loved performing and being around those who had the same
enthusiasm for the arts as I did, I found that I would get so nervous
when the end of class was approaching because I knew the dreaded
words would be uttered: IMPROV GAMES! Nothing terrified me more and I
couldn't understand why everyone was always so excited about this.
The unknown freaked me out and I always found some way to go up last.
With that being said, once I was up there, the support, humor and
commitment that I was given by my fellow actors always seemed to
bring me back down and I was able to relax and just go with it. So,
when I think about how NHTP has helped shape me to be who I am today
and the actor I am now, I can't help but think... almost every film
that I have worked on has been largely improvised. Funny how things
work out."
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