KEVIN BUBRISKI MFA ’97
Alan Arkin ’55 teaching an acting workshop at Bennington in 1994
to make him feel better. Sometime later, I showed it to a publisher, and they wanted it. “I completely fell into directing. I didn’t think I had any abilities or leadership potential at all. When I was about 30, some friends in an off-Broadway play that was failing miserably called me to take over. I said I wasn’t a director; they said, you can’t do worse. I went to see the play, and agreed. After I took over, I found to my amazement that things started getting better. After that I directed Eh?, then Little Murders for Circle in the Square, and The White House Murder Case.
“I love directing. My beginning in directing was in service to the actors; and when you’re in service, you can stay out of it emotionally. One of my favorite things in the world to do is to bring actors to things they don’t think themselves capable of. Directing plays is effortless for me—the easiest thing I’ve ever done. “I’ve taken a lot of chancy projects in my life—I like to take chances. It’s damaged my career to some extent. But I wouldn’t do it differently.” From Quadrille, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1993
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