Theater Students Participate in Q&A with Actress Gia Crovatin
On Friday Millbrook’s Honors Theater class had a special visitor: actress, producer, and director Gia Crovatin. Known for her work on films and TV shows like I Feel Pretty, Billions, House of Darkness, and many more, Crovatin dropped in for an A-block question-and-answer session with students and Theater Instructor Elaine Lifter.
Crovatin introduced herself to begin the informal session, explaining how she knew acting was her calling from the time she was a child watching Nick at Night shows. She followed her passion to Cornell University and studied abroad in London before working in fashion and a variety of other jobs until she broke into the acting industry. Since 2008 she’s appeared in dozens of movies and television shows.
As a teenager, Crovatin fell in love with the works of playwright and director Neil LaBute, and as she built her career in New York City, she attended as many of his plays as she could. She eventually met LaBute and fell in love the person behind the work, and the two were married in 2016. LaBute has been a regular guest in Lifter’s theater classes, and that connection led to Crovatin’s visit on Friday.
Students seized the opportunity to ask Crovatin questions about the nuts and bolts of working in the industry. She shared her experience with everything from getting into character to earning equity points as a union member and having to take on multiple roles to earn a living wage as a professional actor. She also shared practical advice about networking, leaving room for passions outside acting, and prioritizing mental health in an industry riddled with rejection. Her passion for acting and storytelling was clear as she interacted with the audience, sharing favorite plays and musicals, and taking a genuine interest in what shows students are currently watching.
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Students seized the opportunity to ask Crovatin questions about the nuts and bolts of working in the industry. She shared her experience with everything from getting into character to earning equity points as a union member and having to take on multiple roles to earn a living wage as a professional actor. She also shared practical advice about networking, leaving room for passions outside acting, and prioritizing mental health in an industry riddled with rejection. Her passion for acting and storytelling was clear as she interacted with the audience, sharing favorite plays and musicals, and taking a genuine interest in what shows students are currently watching.
Generous professionals like Crovatin, LaBute, and many others have made this a truly inspirational year for the arts at Millbrook. Here are a few more stories about the incredible visitors who’ve contributed to Millbrook School’s efforts to train students for lives of meaning and consequence:
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