{"id":36906,"date":"2015-04-01T15:52:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T22:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?p=36906"},"modified":"2015-12-04T16:44:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T23:44:13","slug":"meg-wolf-theater-and-tv-actor-finds-delight-in-being-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2015\/04\/01\/meg-wolf-theater-and-tv-actor-finds-delight-in-being-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg Wolf, theater and TV actor, finds delight in being normal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meg Wolf, SAG actor, wife, mother and happily \u201cnormal.\u201d
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Although she has it all \u2014 grace, intellect, talent and an international pedigree \u2014 theater and television actor Meg Wolf says she finds balance and happiness in being normal.<\/p>\n

Born in New Jersey to a father who worked internationally, Wolf \u2014 now an Idyllwild resident \u2014 spent her fifth birthday in Saudi Arabia, and fifth and sixth grades in Belgium. Returning to the U.S., Wolf attended school in Lake Forest, Illinois, just outside Chicago. She attended prestigious Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. While at Carleton she studied abroad and was classically trained in theater in London. \u201cClassical training is incomparable,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd theater is so accessible in London.\u201d She described how she and her classmates at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford could attend London theater on discounted student tickets. \u201cI went to the theater five times a week and saw all the shows in London,\u201d she said. \u201cLiving in England [where live theater performances are so ubiquitous] taught me that you could be a normal person and still be an actor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolf contrasted her experience there with that of actors in the U.S. where live professional theater is only available in major cities and where actors, to survive economically, must seek out more rarified careers in television and film.<\/p>\n

Told by a trusted theater mentor at Carleton that she had the chops to make it professionally, Wolf went to New York after graduation, interning both at the Manhattan Theatre Club and the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and meeting theater and film luminaries Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Michael Ritchie, Christopher Reeve and James Naughton. \u201cThrough these experiences, including backstage work, I got to be around people as passionate about all aspects of theater as I was about acting.\u201d<\/p>\n

While in a play in Minneapolis, Wolf was seen by a casting agent and subsequently was booked in a lot of television commercial work. \u201cTarget and Best Buy were headquartered there and I had a ton of work,\u201d she said. And even though classically trained, her first lines in a big paying job were part of a Target employee training video \u2014 \u201cA lot of people ask if our hot dogs are all beef and I say, \u2018No, but they are all meat.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolf laughed because that is the way it is for actors in the U.S. \u2014 commercials, television and film pay. She is a SAG actor, is regularly featured in many national commercials and has appeared in TV dramas such as \u201cAmerican Horror Story,\u201d \u201cThe Mentalist\u201d and \u201cPrivate Practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cActing is what I do. I\u2019m singularly untalented in any other ways,\u201d she said smiling. \u201cIt\u2019s an amazing way to be a grown-up child, to pretend and have others pretend with you.\u201d And in Wolf\u2019s case, it is also her way to be normal, refreshingly normal.<\/p>\n

Onstage, Wolf is known as a \u201cgiving\u201d actor, delighting in being part of the ensemble and supporting her fellow actors in their work. \u201cMy job as a theater actor is to make everyone around me look good,\u201d she said. \u201cI was trained when you get your script not to highlight your lines but to spend more time looking at the lines of the other actors. That is how you learn who you are as a character.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wolf is happily married, touts her newest production as her beautiful toddler daughter Eloise Audrey Wolf, and is currently gracing the Stratford Players\u2019 stage in \u201cEngaging Shaw.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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