Production Name: The Fifth Sun
Name: April Wilson
Character Name: Stage Manager
- Born & Raised: Well…I was born in New York City, but my parents knew that I would one day be a famous stage manager so they moved to small Texas suburb so I could get my start!
- Education: I have a BA from UNT in
Social Science, minors in English and Rehabilitation, and an alternative
certification for teaching EC-6. Yep, I’m a mess.
- Degree:
Um… how is this a different question?
- Zodiac Sign: Jaguar priest of the sun?
- Any Siblings: I have one amazing, beautiful sister. She’s my favorite person in
the whole wide world.
- Audition Song: I do not under any
circumstance sing. Whenever I sing in the car people turn the radio up.
- Audition Monologue: Nope.
- First Play/Musical You Ever Saw: The first one that I remember is when I
was about 7 or 8 I went to opening night of a run of Harvey and I was
hooked and went and saw every show of that run. I have no idea what the
appeal was for me at that time, but I liked it. Also when I was about that
age I saw Chicago. Yes, I was much too young for that show (in case you
don’t know it’s about adulterous men and women and women that kill
their husbands), but I loved it anyway.
- Something you’re REALLY bad at: science.
- Did you have any particular mentors or
inspirations when first starting out? Mary Poppins. She would be the best stage manager ever. There’s
only one difference between watching children and stage managing: alcohol.
- Must See TV
Show: The Newsroom
- Why you work in theatre: Adam Adolfo keeps asking me
- First Role: I don’t know… like a
vegetable or something in school?
- Favorite Play: this is a hard one… I don’t have an answer
- Pop Culture Guilty Pleasure:
I really have no idea what’s going on in pop culture.
- Favorite sport/team/player: Steelers? Honestly, I don’t really
know, but my father would be proud if I said Steelers.
- First Stage
Kiss: I was in 9th
grade, extremely shy, and was playing opposite a guy that was not cute AT
ALL. My brilliant (that’s sarcasm by the way) director had forgotten to
tell us that we were even kissing until right before the show and it
completely threw me off. Him too. We had never rehearsed it before. I was
dreading the kiss right up until it happened and it felt like it went in a
gross slow motion.
- Pre Show
Rituals: Making sure my actors have their pants. Apparently
occasionally they forget them.
- Special Skills: Telling people what to do
- MAC or PC: Back when I was naïve, innocent lad (yes, lad, don’t argue) I knew
not of the brilliance of a MAC and was completely satisfied with my virus
infested, mind-numbingly slow PC.
Then one day a magical prince came and showed me a MAC and I have squirmed
at the idea of using a PC ever since.
- "I'll never understand why…" : some people are such meanie heads.
- Any Theatre Superstitions:
If you don’t put away your props the Stage Manager ghost comes and
hides them.
- Worst Costume Ever: I actually have never had a bad one, but that is probably because
whenever Adam Adolfo tries to make me look ugly I fight back.
- Favorite Post Show Meal: Tequila
- Favorite liquid refreshment (adult or other): Coke
- Favorite ice cream : Rocky Road or Cookies and
Cream.
- Biggest On Stage Mishap: I can’t remember my
biggest on stage mishap, but definitely can remember my biggest off stage
mishap. Let’s just say I cried for like 4 hours. No joke.
- Worst job you ever had: I worked at a little girl’s clothing store during the Christmas
holiday for like a month. WORST MONTH EVER.
- Last Good Movie You Saw: Moonrise Kingdom and Safety Not Guaranteed
- How you got your Equity card: Bhahahahaha
- Something you are incredibly proud of: never pushing an actor in front of a
car or bus or harming them in any way
- Words of advice for aspiring performers: Don’t piss off your stage manager
- Career you would want if not a performer: Ha. If performing was my career I
would be more broke than I already am.
- Three things you can't live without: Chocolate cake, pizza, baked potatoes.
(Yes, all three are food.)
- Best way to beat the North Texas Heat : Move.
- Best thing about Fort Worth & the North
Side: Adam Adolfo.
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