Alumni thrive at Ellen Geer's Theatricum Botanicum

The Daily Bruin writes about professor Ellen Geer and her role as artistic director of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, a theater company in Topanga Canyon founded by her father.

The term "starving artist" need not apply to UCLA theater students, not when there are plenty of small Los Angeles-based theaters that are allowing students to expand their education while still expressing their craft.

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For 2008 theater graduate Melissa Camillo, who is making her debut at the Theatricum this summer playing the role of Hippolyta in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," working at the theater has been an invaluable educational experience.

"The more I work in Ellen's company, the more I learn from all the other actors because everyone is so good," she said. "I'm just learning that there's so many different ways you can get your message across, through the other actors."

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