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angles during the show and also ran certain scenes the day before the shows so that we could show close-up shots during the performances. Conner Rapp recorded the shows live every night, and later turned his apartment into a surround-sound studio to begin working on the movie.

      I also changed the ending of the play to better suit the filming, which helped transform the footage into a “real” movie. There were 1,500 edits. Color correction was a bitch, but we finally had Peaches Does Herself ready for premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September 2012. (The movie was well received and ended up traveling the globe to around seventy film festivals in 2013.)

      In 2012, the HAU theater asked me to take part in a new production. This time I would not direct but was given the lead role of L’Orfeo in the original opera of the same name. I would sing the Italian male leading role with five other trained opera singers, along with the incredible soloist ensemble Kaleidoskop as the orchestra. I did not know how to read sheet music and I could not speak Italian, so I trained with Timo Kreuser for six months to learn the melodies. Another landmark experience.