{"id":20177,"date":"2012-01-27T16:25:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20177"},"modified":"2012-01-27T16:25:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:25:27","slug":"spring-2008-feature-acting-on-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20177","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2008 Feature: Acting on a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.umf.maine.edu\/2008\/05\/12\/spring-2008-feature-acting-on-a-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spring 2008 Feature: Acting on a Dream<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.umf.maine.edu\/magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Farmington First: Alumni Magazine<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Maine, Farmington<br \/>\nSpring 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marc Glass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The stages of H\u2019Nette DeTroy\u2019s dramatic life include theater, dance and even commercial casting<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Looking at H\u2019Nette DeTroy\u2019s resume, you might think she suffers from career wanderlust. Since graduating from UMF in 2006, she\u2019s been a nurse, a cheerleader and a bus-commuting business executive\u2014not to mention a disgruntled gas-station patron, a terminally ill hospital patient and a drunk-driving fatality. A southern Maine-based actor, DeTroy takes pride in her many professional personas\u2014whether that means extolling the virtues of an alternative-fuel Mercedes Benz in a television commercial, playing a nurse in a hospital training video, dramatizing the perils of operating under the influence in an MTV-aired public service announcement or taking to the stage in a community theater production of Disney\u2019s <em>High School Musical<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of fun to lose yourself in a role, creatively making it whatever you want it to be,\u201d said DeTroy on a rare day of downtime away from auditions, teaching children\u2019s dance lessons and rehearsing with the Portland-based hip-hop dance company Rhythm Factor. \u201cWhen I\u2019m acting, dancing or singing, I lose all concept of time and the trivial stuff in life. This is something I love. It\u2019s what life is about for me.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;With what she calls her \u201cmultiracial\u201d background (courtesy of a German father and Vietnamese mother), DeTroy has been slating of sorts for most of her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have always asked me \u2018What are you?\u2019 or \u2018Are you Latina?\u2019 My mom is as third-world as you can get. Growing up in as unforgiving and wealthy a place as Fairfield County makes you aware of your identity. I\u2019m used to defining myself in the first three seconds,\u201d she said. \u201cI remember growing up and thinking \u2018there\u2019s no one on TV who looks like me.\u2019 Seeing Jennifer Lopez in the film <em>Selena<\/em>, a minority actress actually making it, was very motivational.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/alumni.umf.maine.edu\/2008\/05\/12\/spring-2008-feature-acting-on-a-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring 2008 Feature: Acting on a Dream Farmington First: Alumni Magazine University of Maine, Farmington Spring 2008 Marc Glass The stages of H\u2019Nette DeTroy\u2019s dramatic life include theater, dance and even commercial casting Looking at H\u2019Nette DeTroy\u2019s resume, you might think she suffers from career wanderlust. Since graduating from UMF in 2006, she\u2019s been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,125,8,20,25],"tags":[9393,9395,9394],"class_list":["post-20177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-hnette-detroy","tag-marc-glass","tag-university-of-maine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}