'Some Girl(s)' play to educate students about the world of acting
By Jasmin Carina Castanon November 14, 2012
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| (photo: Chelsea Purghan for the Daily Texan) |
Jeremy Lee Cudd, a theatre and dance lecturer, claims to have been a bad actor at the beginning of his career. But he is now using the undergraduate acting project production of “Some Girl(s)” to teach undergraduate students how to avoid his mistakes.
“Some Girl(s)” tells the story of recently engaged Guy, who decides to travel the country to meet with his former girlfriends in an attempt to make amends before he begins his new life. While Hollywood romantic-comedies shy away from the messy aspects of love, “Some Girl(s)” tackles it head-on.
Cudd received his bachelor’s degree from Georgia State University in English literature with a minor in theatre. Cudd played drums/percussion for several musical theater productions, which is how he became interested in acting.
“There was something about the environment and the actors, their sort of weirdness,” Cudd said. “I really fell in love with it.”
Cudd felt like he hit a ceiling in his development as an actor, which is when he decided to pursue his master’s degree in acting at Penn State. Cudd said that he truly began to understand the basic elements of theater through graduate school.
“I didn’t know I wanted to be an actor until my last year of grad school,” Cudd said. “I started to branch out after that.”
Through “Some Girl(s),” Cudd aims to create a fundamental experience for his actors to grow and discover their own acting process.
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