By Matt Zambrano, First Year Student, National Theatre Conservatory

Matt Zambrano

With one week of school under his belt, an incoming NATIONAL THEATRE CONSERVATORY student dishes on his new graduate school, acceptance into the three-year program, his hopes and his dreams.

From Matt Zambrano — As a native of Denver, I had the least distance to travel when starting the program almost 3 weeks ago. I was truly excited to begin my experience here, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little bit anxious as well.  Before coming to the NTC, I was working for a fantastic non-profit touring and writing shows for elementary schools, as well as writing and acting in an award-winning live sitcom called “tRUNks” at Buntport Theater.  These were wonderful places with wonderful people, and leaving them behind for an unknown venture into grad school was not an easy decision. But, knowing the faculty I would be working with and having befriended several of my classmates at the callback weekend, I met the challenge with open arms.

So far it has been a great experience, though exhausting on several levels.  There is so much information to try and process that at times it seems an almost insurmountable task to keep it all in my brain. But, without exception everyone involved in the program and at the Center is unyielding in their support and enthusiasm for myself and my 7 compatriots.  I look forward to what the rest of the 1st semester will bring, and right now I have to stop writing this so I can read a Chekov play.  ~ Z

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