Natalie Prochaski
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My dream, since I can remember was always to be an award winning actress, ‘And the winner is...’ I would feel disheartened thinking because I was British that would hold me back, I was too naive to realise that that wasn’t the only thing holding me back! So to get me through my third year of my drama degree I picked up Scriptwriting modules. I always enjoyed and excelled at English throughout my education so it seemed like an obvious choice, apart from my ignorance of the subject and thought I could just wing it. Before my first lesson I was in pain with fear, having never written anything other than an academic essay and I felt like I was walking to the most humiliating, excruciatingly embarrassing death anyone could ever wish for. It wasn’t bad, it was actually quite fun and I didn’t feel out of my depth. I had finally found something that I felt quite at home with. I carried the module over to my final semester, I think more than anything needing to know that my new-found love wasn’t just a fluke. It wasn’t. I never expected to go to university and get a degree, so doing a Masters was just madness. But it’s been the best thing that’s ever happened to me, up until this point at least. It’s made me look at my life and realise what’s going to make me happy, and that’s writing. And not huge, blockbusting movies that I once thought I’d be starring in, but understated, thoughtful stage plays that look deeper at the human character than anything else I’ve experienced. It gives me a feeling that nothing else does, and I’ll never feel quite satisfied if it ends here but I don’t think I’ll let it.
