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nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">“I need to escape.”</p><p id="1a3f" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">Caroline McPherson had just gotten out of a three-hour-long rehearsal for New York University Tisch School of the Arts’ production of Head Over Heels, the Go-Go’s musical. Prior to that, she had gone through a full nine-to-six day at school. It was 10:30 p.m. when she called her sister. “I need to get out of the city. At least for this weekend. I’m burned out.”</p><p id="2bf1" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">Burnout is no new phenomenon to those in New York’s theatre industry. “It’s not rare to have actors wake up at 5 a.m. to line up outside Ripley Grier” — an industry studio space — “for an audition, then have full days afterward,” says Justin Albinder, an actor who is currently on tour with a Broadway show.</p><p id="26b4" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">However, since the COVID pandemic, a <a class="af oc" href="https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Broadway-Grosses-Tick-Up-Theatre-Workers-Are-Leaving-the-Industry-20211118" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">record number</a> of artists have left the industry because of those long, grueling days. Though the reasons for departure range from pay to instability, many workers cite <a class="af oc" href="https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/theater/theater-workers-arent-just-changing-jobs-during-the-pandemic-theyre-leaving-the-field" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">overwork and burnout</a> as the driving force behind quitting.</p><p id="24bf" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">Despite that, top-tier university theater programs are flinging students back into pre-pandemic standards of long conservatory days coupled with long rehearsals as they return to in-person operation. But after a year of pandemic-ridden Zoom chaos, students like McPherson are burning out faster compared to students of years past.</p><p id="6b4c" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">Francine Torres, who’s currently an acting teacher at NYU Tisch, has taught theatre at all education levels. She’s been able to observe different generations of actors’ relationships with work. Most recently, she bore witness to the pandemic’s heavy toll on students’ work stamina.</p><p id="85f4" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">“The pandemic revolutionized how we view work as a society, and how theatre works as a field,” she emphasizes. “Now, students are a lot more vulnerable and feel a lot more vulnerable. I see a lot of students having to take breaks during class, not knowing why they’re crying but being overwhelmed.”</p><p id="f237" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">She attributes this to a collective awakening the world underwent over the pandemic. “I think that post-COVID, people realize that life is precious and life is short. Not every day is promised. It’s a beautiful thought, but it also means we have a collective trauma.”</p><p id="0258" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">Torres graduated from the University of San Diego with an M.F.A. in Acting in 1995. Reflecting on her own experience in theater school, Torres said existential concerns like the ones current students are facing were uncommon. “It wasn’t even a thought. You felt like you had all the time in the world, you didn’t have any worry about getting sick, or financial stress. You <br/>could do whatever you wanted, right?”</p><p id="9534" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">Though Torres’ student years ended before the turn of the century, her carefree experience wasn’t dissimilar to that of those in school right before the pandemic.</p><p id="46f5" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">Albinder, who graduated from Ithaca College with a B.F.A. in Acting in 2018, said his time in school was busy, but not existentially burdensome. “We weren’t being pushovers, we were doing the things that needed to be done and that we wanted to do,” he stressed.</p><p id="d25f" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">Additionally, when Albinder needed a break, he would take one. “I slacked, yeah. I slacked because there was so much to do and other people were doing it too. It made it seem okay, like we were in it together,” he added.</p><p id="0897" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">Albinder’s reality starkly contrasts with the isolation of current students living in an age of disconnect. COVID has left students without physical contact, and beyond that, without a crucial tool of connection: faces.</p><p id="2f25" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">“The inability to read facial expressions in class is such an unspoken pain-in-the-butt,” Torres explains. “We as actors need to connect with each other in order to do our work. Losing access to half of our faces to help establish those connections makes our job so much harder. The loneliness is crippling.”</p><p id="54f7" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">McPherson, one of Torres’ students, says that masks prevent the pseudo-camaraderie Albinder described. Instead, they contribute to a negative culture of cyclical commiseration. “Misery loves company,” she admits. “We kind of just repeat, ‘I’m so tired, I’m so tired.’ The shared sentiments validate our emotions, which make us wallow in that emotion even more.”</p><p id="0fb8" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">She adds that policies instituted by her program exacerbate the already grim situation. “It’s hard to forgive ourselves,” laments McPherson. “We have a strict attendance policy that says if we miss more than two days of class, our letter grades get dropped. That makes it hard to make that choice to take time for ourselves.”</p><p id="7e5a" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">In such a long semester, the first to operate mostly in-person in over a year, only being allowed two absences may seem harsh. However, the policy’s rigidity mirrors the industry’s standards. “At the end of the day, you have to be a self-starter in this industry. No one cares if you can belt to the heavens if you can’t get yourself up for the 6 a.m. trek to Ripley Grier,” says Carlyn Barenholtz, a senior in Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s musical theatre program. “You won’t get the gig if you don’t show up,” she states.</p><figure class="og oh oi oj ok ol od oe paragraph-image"><div role="button" tabindex="0" class="om on fj oo bh op"><div class="od oe of"><picture><source srcSet="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/format:webp/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/format:webp/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/format:webp/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/format:webp/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/format:webp/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 1400w" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" type="image/webp"/><source data-testid="og" srcSet="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:640/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 640w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 720w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:750/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 750w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:786/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 786w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 828w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1100/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 1100w, https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1400/1*vFSwXgvE-QLJsS00SZDohg@2x.jpeg 1400w" sizes="(min-resolution: 4dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 4) and (max-width: 700px) 50vw, (min-resolution: 3dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 67vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (max-width: 700px) 65vw, (min-resolution: 2.5dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2.5) and (max-width: 700px) 80vw, (min-resolution: 2dppx) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) and (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px"/><img alt="" class="bh mn oq c" width="700" height="700" loading="lazy" role="presentation"/></picture></div></div><figcaption class="or ff os od oe ot ou bf b bg z du">Musical theatre students outside of school on the final day of class at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. The program returned to a hybrid mode of operation after a COVID scare within the student cohort, exemplifying one of the many challenges in the semester.</figcaption></figure><p id="b48b" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">Showing up no matter what is sacrosanct in the theater if you want a booming career. However, that mentality can also result in the deterioration of an actor’s health.</p><p id="2fa7" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">In September, an actor working on Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill prior to the pandemic <a class="af oc" href="https://www.vulture.com/2021/09/jagged-little-pill-trans-actors-mistreatment.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">revealed </a>the consequences of refusing self-prioritization. “I was intimidated, coerced and forced by multiple higher ups to put off CRITICAL AND NECESSARY surgery,” <a class="af oc" href="https://twitter.com/noritachiquita/status/1441409296906870795" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">tweeted </a>Nora Schell, the actor in question. “I’m still dealing with the consequences of waiting to get this surgery,” they admitted.</p><p id="0f78" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">In a post-COVID world, that won’t fly. Since reopening, several big-ticket shows like <a class="af oc" href="https://deadline.com/2021/10/aladdin-disney-broadway-covid-cancellation-1234848343/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Aladdin</a> and <a class="af oc" href="https://deadline.com/2021/12/wicked-broadway-covid-canceled-weekend-performances-1234885446/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Wicked</a> have already canceled multiple performances due to breakthrough COVID cases in their companies. When a mild cough could spell potential catastrophe, the industry needs to adapt.</p><p id="a468" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">“We can’t change what we do, but we can change how we do them,” suggests Ben Caplan, an NYU Tisch alum who writes and produces his own theatrical material. “A solution could be to hire more understudies. That way, we’re not forcing people to show up when it’s unsafe to do so.”</p><p id="ada0" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">Understudies fulfill more than one part in a show. They have their regular “track,” which is the role they normally play, and the track they’re understudying, with completely different lines and choreography. “Problem is, there aren’t enough people who want to put in that work right now,” identifies Caplan. “Producers see that, and are able to say: ‘there are solutions you’re unwilling to take, might as well just stick to what we have.’”</p><p id="9094" class="pw-post-body-paragraph ng nh gu ni b hs nj nk nl hv nm nn no np nq nr ns nt nu nv nw nx ny nz oa ob gn bk">To change the industry, actors must first hurdle their current obstacles to work. “The ones who get through this and keep with the rigor while taking care of themselves. My hope is that they’re the ones to change the industry,” says Torres of her current students. “At the end of the day, we really have to want what we do, really love it. Our future is to work on being kinder and gentler to ourselves and those we work with. 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