Nilla Watkins came to acting in a roundabout way. After graduating from law school, she joined the mergers and acquisitions department of the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. But after two years in the legal trenches doing everything expected of her, she had the nagging feeling that she was overlooking her true calling.While studying philosophy as an Ivy League undergraduate, Watkins had traveled abroad and taken a theatrical improvisation class at the Sorbonne in Paris. The experience stayed with her, and it soon became clear that it was time to act in the moment. Quoting the Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue, she explains her decision to leave law and pursue acting full time with the words "to waste my heart on fear no more."The educational milestone that Watkins speaks most proudly of is her recent graduation from the two-year program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio in New York City,...
- 6/18/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Byron Karl)
- backstage.com
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