Perpetual Wheel of Rejection?

Marleena Garris
Nov 5 · 4 min read

Spin, whether you want to or not.

Image by Pierre Pavlovic

One of the best and worst things about being a performance student is how close everything that you produce is to you. I mean it all runs ridiculously close to the chest. Everyone will get a “no” at least several times a week. You will be wrong. A director of mine used to tell me “rejection is for your protection” and I still bounce that saying around in my head to this day.

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