Well, at Theatre NorthWest, entertainment is sort of our bread and butter. But it’s a particular kind of entertainment the kind you don’t get sitting on the couch, three seasons into your second quarantine watch-through of
The Office. It’s the kind of entertainment that’s also a communal experience, an ephemeral series of human connections played out on a stage. It’s entertainment that
puts you through… not always an ordeal, but at least
something.Something wonderful and ineffable. Over this past year, theatre itself has been put through an ordeal. In a twist of dramatic irony, theatre has become ephemeral in a whole new way. Countless shows across the world have been cancelled, many in the middle of a run. I myself was performing on our stage last March when the proverbial crap hit the fan and UNBC Musical Productions was forced to cancel our second weekend of The 25
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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In the pilot of Modern Family, which will have aired 12 years ago this September, Mitchell Pritchett â played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson â brings home his adopted daughter, Lily. Today, as a new father himself, Ferguson is able to reflect on being a real dad versus playing one on TV. The great thing about having babies on TV is when they start crying, someone sweeps in and takes them away from you. And there s not that person in real life, Ferguson laughed, but it s been a joy. It s so much fun.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson stayed on the ABC mockumentary for its entire 11 season run, which ended in April of 2020. As an actor you are used to constantly being laid off; it s just part of the business, he said. To have a show to last as long as it did is a treat. It s such a joy to play the arc of someone s life.
USC student Ji-young Yoo’s middle school foray into acting precipitated an acting career that resulted in a role in an A24 film. (Photo courtesy of Ji-young Yoo.)
What sparked years of roles in plays, commercials and now films for USC senior and actress Ji-young Yoo originally started just as a way to get an easy A.
“In middle school, I was required to take an art … A girl in my dance studio said she took acting class because the acting teacher is super easy,” Yoo said. “And then I took the class and ended up loving it.”
As Yoo expected, the class wasn’t intensive, but she still remembers performing a three-page long scene called “The Funeral.”