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Larry Owens Loves to Practice
“Rehearsal is limitless options. It’s blue skies. It’s best idea wins.”
He won a Drama Desk Award in 2020 for his lead role in the original Playwrights Horizons run of A Strange Loop, has made recurring guest appearances on the sitcom Abbott Elementary, and, on September 9, he’ll premiere his one-person show, Gypsy 3000, at Joe’s Pub. And so, obviously, she’s a part of my life as this theatrical tentpole, but she’s also something that before, gender-wise, I never really thought to touch and obviously, age-wise, is a long ways away. There’s a very crude saying from my theatrical training at Steppenwolf, which is “Don’t blow your wad.” So I really am just trying to trust all of the work that I did in rehearsal while I’m backstage.
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