During the Summer of 2016, Young Americans’ Theatre Company took me on a theatrical journey from liberal Seattle to Bible-belt Texas.  Doug Wright’s The Stonewater Rapture tells the honest, vulnerable, and ultimately tragic story of two teenagers trying to find their place under God: a preacher’s son on the seminary path struggling to convince himself of his sexuality and manhood, and a girl so devoted to her faith that she reinvents an act of sexual violence as a blessing.

In many ways, this production marked for me a transition from acting as a kid to acting as a young adult.  Its themes, content, and technical demands allowed me to rise to the challenge of a theatrical maturity that I had yet to explore.