{"id":58492,"date":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/commencement-2016-uri-actors-put-life-lessons-to-use-on-stage\/"},"modified":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","slug":"commencement-2016-uri-actors-put-life-lessons-to-use-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/commencement-2016-uri-actors-put-life-lessons-to-use-on-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2016: 溏心vlog免费B站 actors put life lessons to use on stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<b>Daraja Hinds, Diego Guevara draw upon their own experiences, experiences of others to create memorable performances<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Guevara-NL2.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"281\" align=\"right\"\/>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 17, 2016 \u2014 Graduating seniors Daraja Hinds and Diego Guevara spent countless hours during their years in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Theatre Department honing their craft. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThey learned acting techniques, production design and had the opportunity to perform as numerous characters in front of live audiences. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBut as they prepare to participate in Commencement on May 22, Hinds and Guevara will take not just the lessons learned in the classrooms and stages of the Kingston Campus, they will take along life experiences that will help them embody new characters and give convincing performances in their careers as actors. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWhile actors are often able to draw upon their own experiences to find a way to convincingly portray a character, sometimes a character\u2019s motivations lie too far from anything the actor has experienced. For those parts, Hinds and Guevara have found ways to draw inspiration from their work with others, outside of theater.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uzdm61IrbH4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nGuevara, for instance, had to erase his perpetual smile and tuck away his charm to embody the ruthless teenage killer Eric Harris, who \u2013 along with Dylan Klebold \u2013 perpetrated the Columbine massacre in 1999. Guevara played the part of Freak, based on Harris, in the Theatre Department\u2019s production of \u201ccolumbinus.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019s a scary guy and getting there, inside his head, was scary,\u201d Guevara said. \u201cBut he\u2019s human. He had human experiences. He\u2019s not just some monster. I had to make him more human than I think the audience expected.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nTo do that, Guevara, a resident of Central Falls, had to draw upon not only his own high school experiences, which were vastly different than Eric Harris\u2019, but also on his observations of people he\u2019s met throughout his life. Guevara has taken part in mission trips to his father\u2019s native country of Nicaragua, where he helped build four homes for needy families. He has worked with the 溏心vlog免费B站 SNAP Outreach Project, which works to improve access to the nutrition program for those who need it. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cWorking with the SNAP Outreach Program was incredibly important for me,\u201d Guevara said. \u201cIt not only helped me grow as a person, it helped my acting as well. I got the chance to work with people who I might not generally be around and it helped me understand who they are and where they come from.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cIt really helped me with \u2018columbinus,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThat experience showed me there\u2019s so much more to a person than what they present to the world. I had my own picture of Harris in my head before I began preparing for the play, and my work with the SNAP Outreach Program made me realize I had to try to find the person inside the monster.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHinds, too, took advantage of her work on campus to improve her acting. A resident of Pawtucket, Hinds spent two years working as a resident assistant in Hutchinson Hall, a freshman dormitory. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI learned so much about people,\u201d she said. \u201cTwo students can come in for the same undesirable behavior and you have to guide them in different ways. You have to get to know them and how they work. You can\u2019t just judge them based on what they do or say. You have to find out where they\u2019re coming from and know that people carry around so much baggage that you may not be aware of. I think that experience of getting to know these students and their motivations \u2013 for good behavior or otherwise \u2013 will help me in the long run with my acting.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHinds has already leaned on that experience, most recently when she portrayed Pilar, a Delta Nu sorority sister in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s musical production of \u201cLegally Blonde.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m very far removed from that character,\u201d Hinds said, laughing. \u201cShe\u2019s very flamboyant and out there, this rich girl from California who believes that money can solve all problems. But those people are still people and you have to get into their heads to understand their motivations and desires. My time as an RA definitely helped me get into this character better.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBoth Hinds and Guevara hope these lessons will translate into more roles in bigger and better productions as they seek to make acting their careers.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGuevara, who has also acted in some independent films, said he\u2019ll continue taking classes after graduation while he auditions for parts in Rhode Island, Boston and New York. Film, he said, was his first connection to acting and, ideally, he\u2019d like to work in television or film.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cTheater is so much fun because you get the immediate gratification of the audience,\u201d he said. \u201cWith film, you have to wait until the premiere to know if people liked your work. However, film gives you more of a chance to create and really inhabit a character.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHinds, too, is open to working in television or film, but will mostly concentrate on her theater work after graduation. The Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society student said she\u2019ll continue auditioning and trying to build her resume to be taken seriously by casting directors in the bigger markets such as New York. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nShe intends to move to Washington D.C., which has a vibrant theater scene, and continue to apply all the lessons she\u2019s learned at 溏心vlog免费B站 \u2013 not just the lessons about acting techniques. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe professors here in this program have always stressed that they can give us the skills and techniques, but you have to find your niche and what you really like,\u201d she said. \u201cSo that\u2019s what I want to do when I get out of school. 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