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This is me.

When I was ten years old, in 2004, my parents took me to watch a musical. I still remember that day vividly, even though it was fifteen years ago. We drove from our small town to the big city and, once we arrived, they got me one of those programs that had all the cast and crew listed. I remember admiring all the beautiful pictures and being so fascinated by the actors and actresses. By the time the musical started, I was already in love.

The musical’s message was Don’t dream your life, live your dream. and that stuck with me. It inspired me. I saw that musical about fifteen times and every single show was pure magic.

At this point, I was already taking dance classes, and a few years later, my dad found a great musical school about an hour away. I enjoyed it, but I was a small-town girl stuck in a class of city girls. Back then, I was very self-conscious and didn’t manage to make any friends. So I stopped going. Instead, I joined a local theatre group with other kids my age.

After I graduated high school in 2010, reality caught up with me and I put my dream on the back-burner. I completed a three-year apprenticeship in administration and after passing all my finals, I decided to leave Switzerland behind for a while. I worked as an au pair in Los Angeles for nineteen months, which was the best decision of my life. Because, looking back now, I realize that I had a lot of issues with myself when I was a teenager. I got bullied in middle school and, even though I’ve forgiven all the people that hurt me, my confidence never fully recovered from that. Being away helped. It also helped repair some of my lost confidence. I came back as a different person. A happier person.

While in LA, I took some acting classes at UCLA. I learned a lot and rediscovered my love for acting. So, after I came back in 2015, found a job and two years later an apartment, I decided to give acting another try. Just as a hobby to balance out my boring office job.

It went pretty well. In 2018, I managed to get a part in short film made by a student and another role in a short film that was produced by two amazing guys that were trying to expand their skills. I also was an extra on a Swiss TV show. I learned a lot and enjoyed it wholeheartedly.

After a while, I realized that I wanted to learn more about acting and its background. I found a great school and applied to audition in late 2018. And I got in! However, because their class for 2019 was already full, I had to wait an entire year. Throughout that year, I started doubting my decision to attend the school. I was 25 and by the time I would graduate, I would be 27 already. It was a constant battle between my head and my heart.

In the end, I decided to just go for it. Even though the musical that started it all stopped playing a long time ago and the little girl that was so fascinated by all of it had grown up, Don’t dream your life, live your dream. is still imbedded deeply in my heart and soul.

Dreams don’t have an age limit, or any kind of limit. I remember how the actors and actresses on stage made me feel and how they touched me. And if there’s just one girl or boy out there that gets inspired by me, by what I’m doing, then I have already accomplished everything I ever wanted.

My dream isn’t to become famous, it’s to become what those artists were, and still are, to me; An inspiration that changed my life.

(5th January 2020)