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...weren't for Harvard's decentralized, multi leveled theater setup, Hackett might not have pursued acting at all. In high school, she sang and acted in musicals. Freshman and sophomore years she sang with two Harvard bands. Hand to Mouth and The Girl Next Door, Her first, dampening encounter with acting at Harvard came freshman week when she tried out for a freshman seminar in acting given by Robert Chapman, professor of English. She was rejected...
Because ART is not primarily geared toward Harvard students and their schedules, rehearsals can be long an grueling, lasting up to 12 hours a day. More disturbing, they ignore the time-honored traditions of Reading Period and exams. Hackett stayed in Cambridge over Christmas vacation this year to write the papers she would have no time for in January...
...Acting is emotionally draining. You're exhausted after spending all day rehearsing, and the thought of studying afterwards is difficult to contemplate. For the people on ART, acting is their job," Hackett says, adding." When you come back after 12 hours at the theater, it's sometimes frustrating to remind myself that studying, not acting, is my real...
...Still, Hackett feels that drama at Harvard should stay within the extracurricular and not the academic realm. The last thing Hackett wants to see, she says is a drama department that could dominate the theater scene and restrict opportunities to theater majors. "Having no formal drama department makes people do theater on the extracurricular level, and therefore promotes the diversity of House, Loeb and Loeb Ex productions," she says. "Putting theater on the academic level might make it too limiting...
...Hackett took an acting course from Joann Green, an ART member who doubles as an acting instructor, and feels that the course helped make her think about career choices. On Green's advice, Hackett was able to get recommendations and apply to graduate schools of drama, including the programs at Yale and New York University...