Maria Katsonis's Blog
April 21, 2015
Leap of faith
I have taken two leaps of faith in my career. Both involved the arts and both have their origins in the 1950s when my parents set sail from Greece to start a new life in Afstralia. My life script was written on that boat trip and included university and a career in a respectable profession.
I was on course to fulfil these expectations, enrolling in a commerce degree at Melbourne University but promptly veered off the straight and narrow. I couldn’t bear the dry accounting lectures filled with hulking college rugby types who sculled schooners at Naughton’s and organised marathon pub crawls. Instead I found my niche and kindred spirits in student drama, behind the curtains of the Guild and Union theatres. I built scenery, learned the difference between Fresnel lanterns and profile spots, called sound cues as an assistant stage manager until I finally graduated to producing shows.
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I was on course to fulfil these expectations, enrolling in a commerce degree at Melbourne University but promptly veered off the straight and narrow. I couldn’t bear the dry accounting lectures filled with hulking college rugby types who sculled schooners at Naughton’s and organised marathon pub crawls. Instead I found my niche and kindred spirits in student drama, behind the curtains of the Guild and Union theatres. I built scenery, learned the difference between Fresnel lanterns and profile spots, called sound cues as an assistant stage manager until I finally graduated to producing shows.
Continue reading at: http://mariakatsonis.com.au/blog/leap...
