In college, I was a conservative theater student; very few still exist. As such, I spent the majority of my time at Wake Forest in the Scales Fine Arts Center, rehearsing alongside my dearest friends who, by the end of our time together, considered many of my beliefs to be in direct opposition to their mental and physical safety, and my opinions a threat to their very existence.
Having been in the theater world for 15 years, I understood that many of its inhabitants did not take kindly to conservatives, let alone Republicans. Over the years, I learned to keep my thoughts to myself. I kept my head down and offered my political opinion only when it was asked for. Even then, I coated my answers with language acceptable to my liberal peers because I thought it was silly to let something as trivial as differing beliefs stand in the way of presenting a story onstage.
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