I went to high school with this guy!
…and he was always a theater star even then. Awesome.
h/t what is the what
UPDATED: Okay, I had to add his Tony acceptance speech:
The Dr. Herbert he thanks for telling him he was a writer? Did me some good turns in 8th grade English, too. So awesome.
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November 7, 2009 at 7:52 am
I’ve been following this blog for months and I had no idea you went to Hunter! I’m a current Hunter senior and a theater kid.
November 7, 2009 at 8:00 am
oh, and we’re all big fans of Lin Miranda (known as Mr. Miranda as he taught english here for a year and subbed for a few). He still comes to Rep most years and Brick some; every so often I’ll turn around in the hallway and he’ll be standing there talking to Ms. Siegmann or Dr. Herbert or Mr. [Dan] SanGermano (who’s taught art here for a while). Hunter alums are awesome. As is Alexander Hamilton.
November 7, 2009 at 10:59 am
Claire: that is so awesome!!!
I didn’t know Lin Miranda personally — I think his senior year was 8th grade for me — but someone in my year had a HUGE crush on him and I was once tasked with giving him a note from her. I walked up to him in the hallway, said, “Someone told me to give you this,” and he looked at me (and my size I guess), shook his head, and muttered her name in some mixture of contempt and resignation. I think that’s the only time I interacted with him, but I always knew who he was since he was always starring in or directing at Rep and Brick.
Do other schools have things like Brick? Student-written short plays performed? I always thought that was so cool. Seriously, for all that I deigned to show up at high school only on extremely limited occasions, my high school was awesome.
Claire, you may’ve missed my co-blogger Emily who’s been silent for a while, but we met in 9th grade at Hunter and bonded through our shared indignation at the injustices of 9th grade bio and social studies. We both joined the debate team; I assistant coached it, at Hunter, for two years after we graduated. It is a school that makes you want to preserve your ties.
November 7, 2009 at 4:49 pm
A lot of colleges have Brick-esque things, but I’ve never heard of another high school show like Brick (except for maybe Sing at Stuy, but that’s still pretty different). Brick is my favorite Hunter show; I’ve directed a play in Brick for two years and hope to do so again this year.
And Hunter has a lot of dedication from its alumni; that’s part of what makes it so awesome. There are at least 6 teachers at hunter right now who went there for high school.
November 7, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Who are the other alumni teachers, besides Dan SanGermano?
I used to imagine, as a possible career, teaching social studies at Hunter. Not that they would ever have me… too many teachers who would remember me!
November 7, 2009 at 5:57 pm
They’re all older than you, I think. Joanne Roque teaches physics, Daniel Mozes (of Cynthia Nixon’s baby daddy fame) teaches English, Stephen Young teaches math. There are a bunch of alumni who used to teach–Lin Miranda, of course, and Mr. Raufman from the same graduating class, and Ms. Goldsmith who headed the science department for so many years. And then there are people with long-standing connections to the school, without being alumni–such as Mr. Kagan, whose Solicitor General sister Elena Kagan is an alum. He of course couldn’t have gone to Hunter as it was a girl’s school in his day.
November 8, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Oh, that’s way cool about Daniel Mozes. Cynthia Nixon spoke at the National Equality March. For some reason I already knew she was cool, but that sealed it.