Sydney Schott
Theatre School in a Pandemic?
In this episode we interview Sydney Schott who was attending theatre school when the Pandemic started. Sydney was studying at Humber College during the 2019-2020 school year. Sydney shares with us her experience in theatre education from before the pandemic and during. She also shares her inside perspective on the Curtain Up Movement. A Canadian theatre school movement sharing the problematic teaching methods used in schools.
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Outside of Humber, Sydney has had the pleasure of studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. She has studied at many studios in Toronto as well as at the Stratford Festival.
"And he told me to go get life experience and come back, and every other audition for school I had that year, told me to go get life experience, and then come back. And I genuinely didn't understand what that meant. I was like what do you mean like life experience isn’t going to help me here. But for everybody, every young actor, life experience is first and foremost" - Sydney Schott
