Don’t let anyone tell you it’s not worth doing!
It improves your public speaking skills.
Forcing yourself to speak in front of people will help you get better at it! Volume, annunciation, pitch, inflection – they come in handy in a professional setting. And it can teach you how to recover when you've screwed up.
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In school they try to teach this skill with group projects, but it isn't nearly as effective. In theater, you learn to compromise and collaborate with many different kinds of people, or there's no show. Theater people know — every individual is valuable, not just the stars.
It teaches you empathy.
Studying a character in-depth over the months it takes to put on a show is a unique experience you don't usually have the time to explore. When you immerse yourself in a story the way you do in theater, you walk away with a deeper understanding of people who can be very different from you.
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If you can learn how to put on a great show when seemingly everything goes wrong, you'll be able to handle any college all-nighter or insane work presentation. You'll be way more collected because you already know the payoff is worth the stress.
