My Background

Hi! I’m Clementine Wurzbach. Brooklyn-born, small-town Connecticut raised. I started doing theater in middle school because my best and only friend was doing a musical theater summer camp. I’d like to say that the week I spent singing “Happiness” from You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown while holding a giant red pencil is what made me fall in love with theater, but what really kept me coming back was the fact that I was quite terrible at it. That summer lit a fire within me. I needed to win acting! While I didn’t win acting, because as I aged and developed into a person with the ability to process complexity, I learned art isn’t about winning, is it? Theater became a community that accepted me. I went to high school at The Educational Center for the Arts (ACES) in New Haven. When it came to deciding on colleges I wanted to go to school for hotel management or journalism or something, but when I got into Carnegie Mellon (CMU) I cried, and while that's not an uncommon occurrence for me, CMU is the only college I cried for. My high school acting teacher used to always say, “Only do theater if it's the only thing you can do.” I wouldn’t say theater is the only thing I can do. It’s just the only thing I always come back to.

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