It’s about seeing a new play you’ve been dying to catch or how a modern director might interpret a classic. Theater is about experiencing how that actor you loved in that thing you saw reinvents themselves in the show you're seeing now. It's having your eyes opened to our human stories while sitting shoulder to shoulder with others witnessing the same thing.
Additionally, everyone on this year's list had to weather graduating from their programs right into a pandemic, only to find the work they had booked or hoped to book as their professional debuts, was indefinitely on hold or canceled. “I almost didn’t believe it when I got the part,” says Cuellar. “I got the email and had to read it several times and the experience was both thrilling, nerve-wracking and a great experience…The size of the theater wasn’t what got my nerves, I looked at the people in the cast and I wanted to be strong enough of a performer to support that show and not be a weak link.”
Cuellar moved to San Antonio for high school and participated in the University Interscholastic League theater competition, solidifying confidence in her talent and the desire to perform. So when it came time for college, it was a foregone conclusion that it was a theater program she was looking for, something her parents fully supported.
Elissa Cuellar will be performing in the upcoming production of The Taming of the Shrew at Classical Theatre from April 11 – 20.Photo by Sean ThomasAs Jo, the wife of an Elvis impersonator turned drag performer inat Stages Theatre, Uchem won our hearts with her sympathetic performance on stage chemistry. In Ensemble Theatre’s, she comedically transformed into a 15-year-old smart-mouthed, entitled teen, full of endless self-centered demands.
"I was thinking about long-term responsibility," says Uchem. “I love to learn and I really love theater so to be part of any aspect of it I was happy with it but of course, I felt limited in my artistic expression not performing. But I learned that the design element is so similar to storytelling so I ran with that.”
Uchem firmly believes that growing up in Alief and being part of that community taught her to dream big and challenge herself. It, along with her drama club theater directors shaped her, she says. “I learned about joy and experienced so much joy in the art and that’s what I want to give to the stage.”
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