The Final Product
I have been trying to change my thought process as of late. As I work to restructure the way I live my life, all sorts of thoughts have been swimming around in my head. I have attempted to organize my…
Pedro Kaʻawaloa
Actor, Director, Educator
Life
The Answer Paradigm
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~Albert Camus For me, there is a certain comfort in believing that…
The Perfection Predicament
“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina I am a perfectionist… and probably borderline obsessive-compulsive. I like when things are aligned, balanced, tidy, efficient, and complete. I don’t like when problems arise, and if…
The Impostor Syndrome
For most of my life I have lived in Hawaii: on a small island with even smaller towns. I had no exposure to the world, let alone the rest of the United States. My only real experience out of Hawaii…
The Conflict Quandary
Conflict: it’s what makes good drama, and draws people into a story. Our goal as actors is to discover the conflict in our material and bring it to life with our own interpretation. We can connect more intimately when we ourselves…