{"id":9198,"date":"2018-05-30T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/2018\/05\/30\/actor-singer-dancer-and-clonlara-student\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:00:08","slug":"actor-singer-dancer-and-clonlara-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/2018\/05\/30\/actor-singer-dancer-and-clonlara-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor, Singer, Dancer, AND Clonlara Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p><em>By Jake Kitchin, Off-Campus Student<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My name is Jake Kitchin, and I\u2019m currently a junior in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clonlara.org\/off-campus\/\">Off-Campus Program<\/a> at Clonlara School. I chose Clonlara for my high school experience because I\u2019m a professional actor, and Clonlara has given me the flexibility I need, while providing the guidance and structure for a fulfilling high school learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to working as a professional actor since I was 8 years old, I am a singer, dancer, and member of both the Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. I\u2019ve appeared on television (<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>, <em>Donny!<\/em>, etc.) and in several films. I\u2019ve also done a number of voiceovers, including singing \u201cLife Lessons\u201d by Peter Framptopn in this Uncle Ben\u2019s commercial:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billy Elliot O Musical - Expressing Yourself\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PIuHszate94?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have extensive stage experience and have been in a number of off broadway shows, regional theater productions, and readings of plays and musicals in development. In 2012-13, I was in the Broadway National Tour of <em>Billy Elliot<\/em>. I traveled the United States for a full year as a cast member in this incredible musical. Here\u2019s a video of me as \u201cMichael\u201d in <em>Billy Elliot<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billy Elliot O Musical - Expressing Yourself\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PIuHszate94?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, here\u2019s a more recent video of me playing \u201cMysterious Man\u201d in a regional production of <em>Into The Woods:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jake Kitchin - Into The Woods - No More\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LI7zynrU91U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I graduate, I plan to continue my studies and pursuit of acting and performance in college and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Jake Kitchin, Off-Campus Student My name is Jake Kitchin, and I\u2019m currently a junior in the Off-Campus Program at Clonlara School. I chose Clonlara for my high school experience because I\u2019m a professional actor, and Clonlara has given me the flexibility I need, while providing the guidance and structure for a fulfilling high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clonlara.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}