20 Minutes with Drew Highlands

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Q&A with actor Drew Highlands

PhotoSister: What is your favorite restaurant pick in Seattle and the best dish on the menu?
Drew Highlands: There’s this place on 1st and Bell called Umi Sake House. It’s AH-MA-ZING. I always feel like Sean Connery in You Only Live Twice when I walk in the place or maybe I just pretend that I’m James Bond. The best thing on the menu is the 007 roll.

PS: Name one play or musical that you would like to perform in your life.  What role would you want to play?
DH: I can’t sing to save my life but I’ve always wanted to be in Assassins by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman. I would say that or Hamlet. I would love to take on Hamlet and live in that crazy, crazy mind.

PS: Who is your favorite superhero and/or supervillain?
DH: BATMAN! Is that even a question?

PS: What’s next on your horizon?
DH: Graduating! I graduate from Cornish College of the Arts in the Spring of 2013.

Go see Drew Highlands in “Romeo and Juliet,” and “Miracle!” at Intiman Theatre

Catch “Romeo and Juliet,” and “Miracle!” at Intiman Theatre in Seattle, July 11th – August 26th, 2012.

Recently Drew appeared as Pentheus in Cornish College of the Arts production of the Bacchae and Ludwig in The Piper. Drew will graduate from Cornish in the Spring 2013 with a Bachelors in Fine Arts. Thanks to the Intiman for giving me this extraordinary experience, my loving and supportive family, my kind and beautiful girlfriend, Cornish College of the Arts and it’s incredible Professors.