Week #10 Snapshot of Brian Brant
Week #10 Snapshot of Brian Brant: A Lifelong Process
In 2009, Brian, a twelve-year old in the 6th grade at University School of NSU, was always
interested in theatre having already performed in two productions his first year there. Through theater, Brian became very good friends with a Lovewell alumni who constantly about “a summer program she had been a part of since elementary school.” After numerous conversations about Lovewell, Brian decided to apply.
Recalling the nerves built inside him, Brian was “wondering what the process would be like and what it would entail.” But, he took the leap and in June of 2009, Brian and fellow Lovewell juniors created, “Cut Short: A Musical To Die For.” Excited about the piece he helped create, Brian did not “fully realize the power of Lovewell until he sat in the audience” watching the show (“Daybreak”) the teens workshop had created at the very same time. Sitting there in the house, he discovered that “Lovewell is not a program to perform a show; it is a place to celebrate collaboration and creation.”
That night, Brian told his parents he wanted to apply for the second session and since then he has been forever connected “with the people, the affirmations, and of course the process itself.”
Brian’s Lovewell journey has led him to create 12 shows in Fort Lauderdale and Sweden to date. He feels his favorite Lovewell moment is when he first arrived in Sweden and “pulled up to the Oskarshamn Folkhögskola” for the first time. He can also not leave out the moment in his first Lovewell Sweden show where he blew up in a mine-field on stage. Who could forget that?
Ultimately, Brian “cannot imagine life without Lovewell,” his “forever friends,” and the staff that has inspired him so deeply. Seven years later, his Lovewell experience inspired him “to study Radio/Television with a minor in Theatre at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.” He knows he can use his “boundless creative power” in any future endeavor. In the summer of 2016, Brian will continue his Lovewell story and welcomes the Lovewell moments that await him.
“Thank you Lovewell for changing my life.”
Brian Brant
Currently lives in Orlando,FL
Lovewell student in Ft. Lauderdale and Oskarshamn
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