I have said many times in my life that "I am in theatre, I go by many names," and if you were to stumble onto one of them I probably still answer to a lot of them. As I rehearse a play I become engrossed within my characters and fall in love with them, each and every one of them. Some of my favorite people in the world never existed anywhere but on paper and in my imagination. This is the life of a theatre person. We never stop exploring the world, and we never stop exploring ourselves.

We never stop exploring, because they day that you decide that you know everything that there is to know about the world and about yourself is the day that the art has died within you. That is the day that you stopped being an artist. Artist is a very strange word I must admit. The connotation of it alone is enough the give us all a bad rap for the rest of eternity. People assume that we are lazy, unintelligent, overly involved in our own little worlds. The truth couldn't be farther from this egregious falsehood.

Artists are among the most passionately driven, brilliant, creative, and inventive people to ever walk this Earth. It is important to note that when I use the word artist I am not just referring to the actors, but to the singers, and the painters, and the sculptors, and the dancers, and the writers and all the other people in this world today who are use a creative medium to help try and make sense of what is happening in this world. Artists as far as I am concerned are among the few who dare to dream.

Dreams are what shape the world. Without the dreamers who would we quote? Who would stop look around and say to themselves "no wait this could be better." Dreamers innovate. Dreamers revolutionize. Dreamers are not satisfied with good enough. I am proud to be in the legion of people who dream and think. Some of the most aggravating people in the world to me are the ones who sit back and look at the numbers and never stop to think about what the numbers mean and represent. The academics who have a duty to think freely, and don't.

So I would ask that you think more fondly of the artists in the world. Support art. See plays, attend recitals, look at a painting. And for the love of all things don't sit idly by and disengage. After seeing art think about it. Ponder what it means, and why it was written. If you feel so moved change some aspect of your life in accordance with its message. But whatever you do, don't ignore it. Art is out there waiting to be seen, heard, and appreciated. Just look.