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Jesse Ballard<br />
Age 21, Holland<br />
“My big dream in life is to write plays and musicals and to<br />
have them performed. My love of theater began when<br />
I was young. I always took joy in reading lines at school<br />
assemblies or presenting to the class. I auditioned for plays<br />
in middle school and early high school, but I didn’t get any<br />
parts until I was a junior in high school. I mostly did stage<br />
crew work, but my first role started as an understudy but<br />
then I got the part when the actor could not make the<br />
performance.<br />
“In 2014 I was out to lunch with a friend when she suggested<br />
that I try writing my own plays besides just seeing them.<br />
The thought never crossed my mind, but I tried and found<br />
myself enjoying it, making it a hobby but hopefully a career<br />
someday. I am currently working on my second draft of my<br />
first two act play “Booked,” a comedy about two competing<br />
theaters.”<br />
Reporting and photo by Dawan Brown<br />
Jose Abreu<br />
Age 36, from Santiago, Dominican Republic<br />
“I am a graphic designer. I work for an advertising<br />
company and for a local newspaper. I am a father<br />
of four children, and in my free time I like to dance,<br />
and work with digital photography. I struggle with<br />
perfectionism, I like for stuff to be perfect. If they<br />
are not perfect, I get frustrated. I (also) want to<br />
improve my English. My company sent me (to CC)<br />
to improve my English because English is my second<br />
language.”<br />
Reporting and photo by Kiyrah Floyd<br />
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