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...give me a chance.” Last-minute cast shuffling left her with a turn as King Alonso, a meatier part than her original role as the Boatswain. Every summer from then on, Lloyd-Bollard performed in Shakespeare Under the Stars, the community theater group in her hometown of Hampshire, Mass. Arriving at Harvard, Lloyd-Bollard was more certain about her theatrical goals than about how to attain them. College drama presented new challenges for her: “I knew I wanted to keep acting. I had trouble getting cast freshman year—it?...
Miller’s path has truly come full circle. This summer he heads back to Denver, his hometown, to rework the election play he orchestrated freshman year. He will be working with the Physically Handicapped Actors & Musical Artists League, the theater group for disabled actors where he was first able to combine his interests in disability and theater. After bringing the show to local high schools, Miller plans to stay in Denver for the remainder of the year, pursuing creative projects and attending the shvitz...
...Eggers with the aim of providing free after-school writing programs and seminars to high school students. Feeney’s emerging interest in creative writing led him to volunteer before the opening of 826 Valencia, the program’s first writing center, in Feeney’s hometown of San Francisco. He had no experience with tutoring, so the program administrators assigned him odd jobs such as filling giant buckets with lard to help prepare the “pirate supply store” in the center’s lobby, a fully-functioning storefront that sells everything...
...high schools (17-year-olds can participate in Indiana's primaries, so long as they're 18 by the general election), Obama is also expected to win the state's college towns, as well as Indiana's Northwestern corner, partly because it falls within the media market of his hometown of Chicago. However, Obama faces significant hurdles in the rest of Indiana, whose blue-collar demographics and sensibilities closely resemble those of Ohio, which he lost by 10.5 percentage points...
...Warner's hometown, South Bend, has a historically unionized, largely white, working-class population that would appear to match the profile of Clinton's core. However, the fact that this city of 106,000 is home to two universities - chiefly Notre Dame - could help Obama. "No one knows how this thing is going to go," says Russ Hanson, political science professor at Indiana University, in Bloomington...