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Liam Berkovich
Character: BIG MAC
What does the American Dream mean to you? "[The] American Dream is an outdated version of what it used to be… [a] vision of what was."
What does your character mean to you? "[BIG MAC] shows growth in people... [and is] a testament that change can happen to the worst of people.... [He's an] old man… resistant to change... just like the audience is resistant to change… [he] calls them out."
Izzy Rampersad
Reading Stage Directions
What does this play mean to you? "…This show means to me that hope is found in other people."
How do you personally connect with the play? "I really connect with the sort of clashing of identities in the play, especially between the characters. The characters themselves are very specific, and the way they interact with each other is so specific, and I think that makes it all the more real."
Victoria Salazar
Character: NUGGET
What does the American Dream mean to you? "Doing plays like this, I get to tell stories that need to be heard… I get to walk into a classroom and learn… It means I get clean water; I get to have basic things a lot of people have taken for granted… Taking all these resources from the country that is mine and use them to their full extent and use them to fulfill my life."
What does your character mean to you? "She feels like my subconscious…. Her stakes are higher than mine…. I feel like I need to take care of her."
When did you come to an understanding of the world you live in? "My family has always taught me to be proud of where I came from rather than silent about where I came from.... I'm American.... American to each individual person is different, but... each individual idea of America needs to be embraced.... No matter what I present and what I choose to present as, American or Mexican, I am Mexican American and that identity can only be identified by who I am and not what other people think I am."
Wylie Wagon
Character: RONNY
What does the American Dream mean to you? "I’m a big believer in the American Dream; I don’t think it’s died out yet."
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