All of my life during the summer for as long I can remember I spent the summer at the theater camp Stagedoor Manor. Not as a camper though but just visiting due to the fact that my dad went there as a kid. I had always been interested in theater and always loved the idea of doing shows but had never perused these dreams. During the summer of 2002 one of my dad’s best friends, Michael Larsen, was directing there just like he had done for numerous summers before. This summer was special though because it was the summer I decided that theater was the thing I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Michael was directing the musical Little Me, I had been watching him direct it for about 1 week by the time I said, "Hey Michael, I have an idea!" He listened to my numerous ideas as my dad sat beside me obviously embarrassed because I would stop talking. After I was done with my many ideas Michael turned to my dad and said, "Your son has a knack for theater." For the next two weeks I sat by Michael feeding him ideas until i was blue in the face. At the end of the three week session it was time to go home, but with me i brought something back that I didn’t arrive with... the love for theater. In 2004 I was old enough to go back as a camper this time and ever since then I have continued to go and I plan to till I’m 18 and its time to go to college. The moment I left Stagedoor Manor in the summer of 2002 I began to eat, sleep, and live theater listening to every Broadway album I could get my hands on. That summer was the summer that changed my life because it was the time when I realized what I wanted to do for the rest of my life... theater.