What I Learned in the Theatre

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I have always been a storyteller. As a young child, I regularly drew my favorite characters and envisioned new stories for them — one might say “spinoffs.” I emulated the funnies that I read in every Sunday newspaper and laid out my drawings in comic strip panels. I also started my first book at age five. It was a flip book.

I had an overactive imagination, launching myself over the couch to escape an invisible…