Personal Statement

My desire for acting grew when I watched a movie called Project A, it was a Chinese movie
translated in English. The movie was based on Jackie Chan and his team who were being taught
to fight pirates. Action movies always amazed me from a young age but my main inspiration was
Jackie Chan because he had a way of making me feel as if I was in the movie with him. During
watching project A that's when I knew acting was the path I was going to take. I enjoy
performing arts because it discovers the whole range of person emotion and can produce
marvellous performances and visual experiences and with Drama we can go further than flesh and
blood and express ourselves as somebody else and take on this 'mask'. The most thoughtful
thing I have found when acting is that we can become any person in the entire world, and still
be us.

 My passion for acting has leaded me to work hard on school studies but also on my personal
skills. In Secondary my group was working on a play called 'DNA' which was one of my favourite
plays because I had the main role which leaded me to be on stage throughout the whole
performance. This helped me build my confidence more, and I was a bit of a shy person, but the
'DNA' performance had completely changed me. I had my friends and families supporting me
throughout the plays. The Greek theatre piece on Antigone, "Our Country's Good", my Greek
piece Collaboration with the Dance-Musical theatre students, "The Shakespeare in da house"
Project and our Final Major Project "Last Summer ". My two favourite projects though out this
course was "Shakespeare In da house "and our Final Major Project. The reason "Shakespeare in
da House" was one of my favourites was because of the fact that I did something I never
thought I would be able to do in college. This project gave me a sense of adrenaline. I feel
as though this project was not only something fun but also educational. I felt that 'The
Shakespeare in the house' was getting me ready for the performing arts world.

 The project helped me as an actor to always perform to my best ability no matter what the
circumstances maybe. From the beginning till the end of this project I had a really amazing
time and I loved that my class was the first ever in my college to do something like this. My
class also took this piece and did collaboration with the Dance-Musical theatre students which
we performed at a college in Ipswich. The Ipswich performance was really something different
because we were able to join our Shakespeare piece with our Greek collaboration piece with the
dancers. Lastly "Our Final Major project which was "Last Summer". I liked this project a lot
because it was something that was very different for me and my fellow class mates that were in
the production of this play. My Final Major Project allowed me to experience what it felt like
to work with a play writer or director and in my case I was able to experience both. I felt
that by having the play writer coming to speak to us, it helped me get into her head and also
helped me find out why she pictured the character I was to be playing in a certain way, also
by speaking to her about the character I was to be playing it helped me understand how she
wanted the character too be seen and also gave me an idea on how I should be playing her. I
also did my own research so I can better understand the situations the characters are going
through.

 Outside college I love doing 'Parkour and Free running' as well as Mixed Martial Arts. I have
been doing Parkour from a young age, this has helped me maintain my health as it includes a
full body workout, quick thinking skills, boosts confidence, builds core strength - bone
strength, cardiovascular endurance, reduces antisocial behaviour and many more. This includes
Mixed Martial Arts as well, knowing some self-defence and being safe on the streets wouldn't
hurt. I love all kind of sports. I also love familiarising myself with different countries
acting style.