<p>Swimming against the current doing theater at Harvard? No way!</p>
<p>Hey, if you want theater to be your primary academic focus, go to Yale. But it’s just wrong to suggest that it’s some kind of uphill battle to be a prospective professional actor or dramatist at Harvard. Christopher Durang, Peter Sellars, Rashida Jones, Eden Riegel, Darren Aronofsky, Matt Damon, Jack Lemmon, Jon Lithgow, Elisabeth Shue, Mira Nair, BJ Novak, Tommy Lee Jones, Mira Sorvino, the authors of the shows My Fair Lady, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, Legally Blonde, Bat Boy, etc…all had lots of company as future artists at Harvard. And they all majored in something besides theater.</p>