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Stories with keyword: theatre

I Thought You Were My Friend

Keith is 22, and is the artistic director of a professional theatre company in Wilmington, DE. He loves being accessible to his audiences, and after a performance of one of the plays, a minister of a local church (“Scruffy,” Keith … Continue reading →

Keywords actor, affectionate, Celebrity storyteller, church, congregation, dating, DE, Delaware, director, flirting, friendship, gay, God, heterosexual, hugger, Live story, metrosexual, minister, misinterpretation, mistake., mixed messages, physical affection, producer, Scruffy, sexually frustrated, tease, theatre, theatre company, Wilmington

Call It a Crime

At 19, Nancy was an innocent Theatre major at a Catholic university – so innocent she’d never been drunk, and needed to know what drunkenness felt like in order to play a character she’d been cast as in a show. … Continue reading →

Keywords acting, Catholic, college, consent, date rape, denial, dorm, dorm room, drinking, drunk, frat house, fraternity house, kiss, Live, Marquette, Milwaukee, no, non-consensual, plays, PTSD., rape, rehearsal, secret, sex, sexual abuse, sexual violence, survivor, theatre, theatre major, trauma, victim, victim blaming, virginity

I Love You, Man

Mather was a freshman theatre major at NYU, with the whole big city around him, but he somehow still felt lonely and isolated. He fell into the habit of drinking a lot — sometimes to blackout state. One night, walking … Continue reading →

Keywords alcohol, blackout, college, crying, dorm, drinking, drunk, emotional, excess, freshman, homeless, isolation, Jack Daniels, jump cut, life story, Live story, loneliness, memory loss., New York, NYC, NYU, party, passed out, pizza, roommates, student, theatre, unconscious

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