![]() It’s a big investment, and you have to be willing to watch it play out."ĭon't beat yourself up. "If you want to go to grad school because you want an agent or you want better auditions in New York, it’s three years of your life and potentially thousands of dollars in debt. But would Pinkham recommend getting an MFA to other actors? "Grad school is for you if you are interested in the longterm investment," he says. ![]() "That’s just where I’ve gotten work, so I’m happy with that and it’s led me to this moment where it’s a show I’m excited to be a part of… I’m glad I sort of listened to the business in that way."ĭecide if grad school is right for you. "Sometimes you have to wait for the business to tell you where your foot in the door is, and I did not go to Yale School of Drama because I knew I was going to do musical theater in New York," says Pinkham. Pinkham made his Broadway debut in a small role in the cult-hit show "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," and most recently donned sparkle shorts and tap shoes in a featured part in the musicalized "Love's Labour's Lost" in Central Park this past summer. ![]() In fact, he started doing theater because a teacher told his parents they needed to find an outlet for his "reckless creativity." For Pinkham that place has been musical theater, which he never explicitly trained in aside from doing community theater growing up. Aside from persistence and belief in himself, Pinkham says that one thing that has carried him along in his career is finding his niche in the community. And frankly, Pinkham is asking himself the same question. ![]() "There’s always somebody who’s getting better parts than you or is doing whatever better than you…It’s easy for me to identify with that feeling of, 'Uhhh, I just want to be up there and I’m down here.' And finally he gets there, and people are sort of like, 'How have you come so far?'"įind your niche. "There is always somebody who has more success," he says. Pinkham says he tries to relate to the character so he won't judge him, and in this case what Pinkham relates to is the idea of being the underdog-something he thinks all actors can understand. "The more difficult portrayal is a more human portrayal, a three-dimensional human being, which ultimately is always the goal." "It’s a unique kind of challenge because the easiest thing to do would be to play one’s idea of a villain," explains Pinkham. This isn't Pinkham's first turn at being the "bad guy." In "Ghost The Musical" on Broadway, he played Carl, the jealous best friend with questionable motives. After earlier productions at Hartford Stage and San Diego's Old Globe, the musical, which is directed by Darko Tresnjak, begins previews on Broadway Oct. Freedman and music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak. "It's almost like 'Downton Abbey' meets 'Sweeney Todd' meets Gilbert and Sullivan," Pinkham says of the show, which is inspired by the book "Israel Rank" by Roy Horniman and has book and lyrics by Robert L. In the show, Pinkham plays Monty Navarro-the "gentleman" from the title-who learns that he is ninth in succession to become the Earl of Highhurst, and he goes on a quest to murder the eight people (all played by Mays) ahead of him in line. "It's truly absurd."Īnd he's not going anywhere soon. "It's better than I ever could have dreamt to be honest," says Pinkham, sitting in a booth at Brooklyn Diner on West 57th Street. If you'd asked him at that time whose career he would most like to emulate, he would have said Jefferson Mays.įive years later Pinkham is headlining the new Broadway musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" alongside his acting hero Mays. Just out of the MFA program at Yale, Pinkham gave himself half a decade to pursue acting professionally, and at the end of that time he would reassess. Five years ago, Bryce Pinkham made an acting five-year-plan of sorts.
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