They come for the training, for a limited run at a high-profile resident theatre, or because a family member lives or works in the vicinity. They stick around San Diego because there's acting work to be had and creative opportunities to be pursued that would be far less easily realized in larger, talent-saturated markets such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. And it's hard to beat the lifestyle in San Diego, a large Southern California beach city with resources and culture to match but without the traffic, congestion, or rat-race pace of L.A. and New York. "The quality of life here is pretty great," says Linda Libby, a San Diego–based actor who did the New York thing for a while before returning to the city where her parents lived. The Old Globe, the Tony Award–winning dean of the local theatre scene, expressed interest in Libby once she left Temple University,...
- 3/23/2009
- by Evan Henerson
- backstage.com
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