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Breaking Stereotypes One At a Time YOLLETTE THOMAS-WUNDER Member: American Women’s Club of Berlin, Germany From: Born in Jamaica, grew up in Springfield, MA Lives: Berlin, Germany My Life Journey I was born and partly raised in Jamaica. I moved to Springfield, MA with my family in the 1970s. There I quickly learned to speak American English. As children, my siblings and I only spoke Patois at home. I remember being teased at school many times because my accent was different. The kids would say, “Go back to Jamaica on your banana boat” and I thought, “What banana boat? We flew to America on a plane. I’ve never even seen a banana boat.” That motivated me even more, to quickly learn how to speak American English. After I graduated from high school in Springfield, I went to New York City where I attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts, studying Acting, Theater and Communications. In the Experimental Theater Wing, where I studied, we did a lot of rolling on the floor, singing and finding our voices. We studied the Meisner Technique which focuses on getting the actor out of his/her head, by concentrating on their scene partner. Repetition and listening to your partner are an important part of the technique. Me aged 16 pub. Bruce Church, the other manager and I turned it into a “place to be.” Whenever I had acting work, the owners were always very understanding and gave me the time off. After graduating from NYU, castings were going well, but I wasn’t making enough money to pay my bills. So, I got a job managing a restaurant named Pageant near Cooper Union in the East Village. It was an Irish While I was at NYU I met film directing major, Michael Johnson from Berlin, who told me, “I have a script and you have to do this role.” And I was like, “Alright, cool, give me your script.” Two years later I saw him in the theater district and he said, “I have to call you tomorrow.” I said “Ok, sure, call me, here’s my number.” He finally called, we met 29
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