Monday, February 24, 2014

I'm Mark! Well this is quite an opperation...

      I don't really know how to blog so forgive me if this all seems like rambling. I'm currently playing Mark Cohen in New Line Theatre's production of Rent. For those that don't know New Line is a local Non-union professional theater company in Saint Louis, Missouri. Now that I've got that exposition out of the way I guess I'll tell you all about myself. My name is Jeremy Hyatt, and up until this point I've only ever done community theater. I just turned 21 and I enjoy playing video games. It seems through theater and games I spend more time pretending to be someone else then actually being myself, but don't let that fool you, I'm very happy with where I am in life. I was always the kid who wanted to play pretend, more then tag, more than even freeze tag. I enjoyed all the thing I could do with just my imagination. I could be on a far away planet fighting aliens, or a young aspiring filmmaker in 1989 Alphabet City, New York, or even myself in some crazy situation that would never happen in real life, and that was always awesome to me.
      Video games have been a part of my life since I was born. My mom when I was a younger kid and the economy was better was a stay at home mom, and so if she would ever get bored during the day she would put in Super Mario Bros or Sonic to the Nintendo or Sega and we would play. It was a place where I could go besides just my head to be in a different place. When I started into RPGs my mine was blown by the fact I could create a character who was like me, but in those other worlds, and so my love for pretending just grew. Then MMORPGs where I could hangout as my other self with my friends other selves, and other people's other selves from around the world was just the logical next step because almost everything is better with friends, right?
       So then how did I get into acting? Well I was in choir starting in 7th grade, because my friends had told me that when we weren't doing stuff we were allowed to play games, see how that leads in, and I just grew to love singing, but there was always a part of me that wanted to step out and be noticed instead of just being part of the group. I finally got that chance when I was 16 and a sophomore in high school and a friend asked me "Hey, we need more guys for this show, do you wanna do it?" I said yes in an instant and auditioned and made my first show, High School Musical with Maryland Heights Community Theatre. Now I know you're all thinking "oh know HSM," but it's where I started my journey and where I met Evan, who is now playing Roger in Rent, for the first time.