My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

I gravitated back to theatre again, and when I heard about this little independent movie called 'Lady Bird,' I thought, 'This will be a project where I can dip my toe back into the water.'

I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.

No matter how many times you've done it, the early stages of getting a show up on its feet is very hit and miss. There seem to be thousands of options on every page to discover.