Acts of an Artist

I went to an "arts" school throughout all of my high school years. Even though we went over the definition of art in my English classes and all of my arts classes, there are still so many ways to define art that no one definition ever really stuck. Art is a tangible creative form of expression that can be sold, not that it needs to be. I pride myself as a filmmaker but the art that I am actually most proud of is my work in a play entitled Acts of God by Mark Rigney.
It was a play about twelve kids who experience a devastating storm and go through the next year trying to get their lives back on track. I played a character named Jared. He was a big classic rock fan who wasn't all that bright. Each character had about the same number of lines so there was no main character but if there was it wouldn't have been me.
The reason that I consider Acts of God as my best work of art was because it dealt with serious issues and I was able to work on it with a great group of people that I ended up getting really close to (a little bit too close but that's a different story). It was a five day run and when we opened the show we didn't have many people come but we still performed with enthusiasm and put all of our rehearsal time to the test. One day we had almost nobody but teachers in the audience. It was fantastic to have all of the teachers watch how dedicated we were and how much work we put in to the show. There was a day when most of the casts parents were in the audience and the first half of the show was terrible. Before the second act the director talked to us about how we should start focusing on the characters and stop focusing on our parents. That second act was the best second act out of all five days of showings. The tears were flowing that night, in a good way.