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So I got in, and then started feeling so unhappy. I got into the program and I was there for a semester and I got to know that it was really not for me. It did not resonate with me. I did get into the program which was a big accomplishment and my parents were so happy and proud of me.
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In my year, they chose 12 and that was a very big deal to get into that program. When I was in school, we were trying to get into the BFA of musical theater program.
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But that is something that I am proud of myself for, that when there’s something that I really want to do, I will just do it. I decided I wanted to run a marathon and I’m not a marathon runner, but I paid my little tuition and I showed up and I and I did it and it hurt. When I was on tour, I took a week off from the tour to run for a pageant and I became Miss California. In other words of deciding to do something and doing it. This would have passed me by if I had kept listening to what everybody else thought I should do. The week after I moved, I got a show that was in my life for about five years on tour and on Broadway. Then it wasn’t me asking permission, and it was more like informing that I was going to New York and it was the best decision I had ever made for myself. I bought the ticket and didn’t tell anybody until it was time for me to go. Eventually, one day, I realized I really wanted to go there. Well guess what, if you’re asking everybody around you, in not New York, if you should move to New York, they’re going to say no, this place is much better. Should I move here? Should I move to New York and everyone said no. So when I moved to New York City, I had been asking everybody’s permission. I’m the person who, when there’s something that I want to do, I go and I do it and sometimes that’s scary, but it’s usually pretty rewarding. In terms of titles, I used to be Miss California and I worked at Disneyland. I’m getting ready to go back into rehearsals for the Britney Spears musical.
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When I’m in a group of people, I’m really loud. I’ve done some shows. I enjoy one on one conversations, not groups of people, that is so nerve racking and draining. I appear to be an extrovert, but I think I might be an introvert because I recharge by myself. So 30,000 foot approach, who am I? I will say that I love to have fun. I love people. I found that I had tied my identity into that and who am I without a show? Am I still the Broadway actress? If I’ve not worked for a year? Am I still the Broadway actress if I haven’t worked in a year and a half? So tying your identity into your titles? Gosh, who are you when those titles are stripped? When the pandemic happened, Broadway shut down and I felt all of those things. There’s so much unemployment that it feels like, Am I really doing this? So when you finally have that belief enough in yourself that you say, “Yes, I am doing this, I’m an actress!”, there’s a lot of pride in that. I feel like a lot of times being an actress, it’s like, I’m waiting tables am I really an actress. It took me so long to be able to say those words that I’m an actress and not laugh at myself and actually believe it. We dive into the Pandemic, love, compassion, and what it has been like to find ourselves. She was also previously seen in Beautiful, the Carole King musical on Broadway. She was most recently in rehearsal for Once Upon a One More Time the new Britney Spears musical. Salisha Thomas is a Broadway star and a former Miss California.