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Abby Taubner: Mr. Cornell, I have tried to be neighborly, I have tried to be friendly,
and I have tried to be cordial. I don’t know what it is you’re trying to be!
My name is Abby Taubner, I am a sophomore here this year, and I’m a theater major
currently, and I’m applying to the Business School this semester.
Kate Northy: Abby has lit up the stage in several productions in Madison including roles
in: “You Can’t Take it With You,” “ Tijon and His Brothers,” “Humorology,” and
“It’s a Wonderful Life the Musical.”
Abby: When you’re on stage and you can just like feel people’s energy radiating towards
you, I love knowing that I affected someone and made them feel something. It’s so much
more than just standing on a stage and throwing emotions out that you see the characters saying
on the script. You really have to think as them, put yourself in their situation. I also
get to do a ton of stuff that I would never be able to do in my lifetime, be someone who
I’m not.
Kate: Abby’s most recent project has been starring in “The Plunge,” a student-made
short film.
Abby: How’s your party going old man?
I’ve never worked with film before, I’ve done a lot of Stage Theater, and I thought
it would be a great opportunity to kind of start learning the ropes about all that. You’re
not performing to a huge theater of people where the last row is X amount of feet way
in the back, you’re performing to this camera that is this far away from your face. Coming
here, seeing all of the grad students who are pursuing this, seeing all of my friends
who have graduated trying to pursue it, it really made me realize that this is a major
here because it’s a career path, it’s a choice that I can make.
I can do very well without you leaving little chocolate almond Hershey bars in my mailbox.
They melted yesterday and now I’ve got three gooey letters from home with nuts in them.
In the future, I would really like to move to New York or L.A. and do the whole ‘trying
to make it’ thing.