LAUGH WHILE YOU CAN
TDPS alumnus discusses his work in The Second City's new Washington sketch show and how UMD helped him get there.
By Beena Raghavendran, The Diamondback
University alumnus Aaron Bliden has had a busy few weeks. Take his Monday, for example.
At 8:30 a.m., Bliden woke up at his friend's house after a long night of working on a show for Washington's Pointless Theatre Company, in which he is singing and performing. (He's also the music director.) At 10 a.m., he was back home for a Skype meeting to check in on a workshop he and his friend wrote for another Washington theater company. After a flurry of errands and a lunch break, Bliden was off to an executive board meeting for Pointless Theatre Company, followed by another meeting for the workshopping show — then, finally, sleep. Maybe.
"I don't want to think about it," he said.
Though a crazy schedule is nothing new for Bliden — it comes with the territory for a Washington actor — he has had an unusually packed few weeks. As a cast member in The Second City's new collaborative Washington sketch show with the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies, Bliden had two weeks of rehearsal before his first show on Tuesday.
Source:
The Diamondback
Date of Publication:
12/7/11