![]() Pinkham then talked about his work and career. “I believe that fear is our friend and that with enough reframing and conscious rewiring anyone can make friends with their butterflies and learn to welcome them with excitement and control.” “Fear is just excitement without breath,” Pinkham said. Later, Pinkham answered questions presented by Jorgensen and actress Gabrielle Esposito, BC ’18.Īfter opening with a personal story about his family’s near run-in with the coronavirus last year, Pinkham introduced a lesson he learned from one of his professors at Yale, where he studied acting at the David Geffen School of Drama. Pinkham, a Grammy- and Tony-nominated stage and screen actor and acclaimed Broadway performer, was introduced by Luke Jorgensen, chair of the BC theatre department. Pinkham was the fourth speaker of the semester in the Lowell Humanities Series, co-sponsored by the Lowell Institute and the theatre department at Boston College. ![]() ![]() His talk, Fear Into Fuel: A Gentleman’s Guide to Stage Fright and Other Scary Things like Climate Change, focused on fear and how people can channel their nerves into meaningful action. On Wednesday, Pinkham, BC ’05, spoke virtually on his work and creative process within the theatre world. ![]() Keaton, a comedian and silent film star from the ’20s, has no doubt inspired Pinkham, who recently wrote his own one-man show. On a pixelated Zoom screen, a framed poster advertising a Buster Keaton film festival-capturing the comedian’s deadpan expression and drooping eyes-leans against the wall of playwright Bryce Pinkham’s home. ![]()
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