On the Road with Taproot Theatre

It's 5:00 a.m. and I'm supposed to catch a bus and be to the theater by 6:30. Now, as a kid I'd get myself out of bed by thinking of breakfast and chocolate milk, in college it was coffee, but those things don't seem to help anymore so I have to work a little harder. I remind myself how amazing it would have been for me (in middle school) to have had someone encourage me to stick up for myself, to think about true friendship, to talk with a trusted friend and ask if they would stop a rumor if it was spread about me or stand near me if I was being picked on. That encouragement would have made a big difference in my life - and it's encouragement like this that I get to participate in everyday. This is what gets me out of bed.

At the end of this long day of performing "Witness" (our secondary education show) a staff member of the school comes up to me and says,
"This was the best assembly I've ever been to. And I've been working in the schools for 30 years."
"Thank you." I say - and think to myself, "This will help me get up tomorrow."

-solomon