My Experience Meeting Trey Anthony
So before even learning about Trey Anthony and Da Kink in My Hair in my class, I knew who she was from when the television series aired on global. Unlike a lot of the viewers I LOVED the tv series and I was genuinely sad when it got taken off the network. Anyways so a few days before classes started earlier this year My family and I were discussing going to the musical Da Kink in My Hair because we found out it was coming to the city. I WAS SOOOOO EXCITED! because I was like ohmygoodness I love Trey Anthony so much as an actress I can’t wait to see her in the flesh. So a few days later when classes started I found out in my Theatre in Performance class we were actually going to go watch the show. When I tell you I almost fell out of my chair and had a heart attack i am not lying. When my family and I were discussing to go see it, it wasn’t a for sure thing. So when I saw that it was a mandatory play we had to go watch and that it was already paid for and everything I was ECSTATIC!! Leading up to the day of the show I was on twitter and Facebook almost everyday tweeting and messaging Trey Anthony and the Da Kink in My Hair twitter account trying to get noticed so I would get to meet Trey and see her up close and personal and actually hug her and tell her how much I adored her as a person and actress and how much she inspired me. *sigh* Anyways soo fast forward to the day of the show, as I was sitting in my seat waiting for the play to start I was super uneasy, I was so nervous (for what reason? I don’t even know) I was surrounded by all my classmates and and they could sense my excitement. I honestly feel like I was so thrilled for two reasons.
1. I was about to see Trey Anthony in the flesh and blood and hear her voice in real life, not over a tv screen not on a computer monitor but actually in real life!!!!!! Like I was about to be in the same space and area as this amazing actress who reminded so much of myself.
2. I was finally, actually about to see a play that I would be able to easily relate too. I didn’t have to settle for the traditional white actor and actresses that I see on a regular. There would be a black women playing a lead role onstage. there would be a majority all black cast onstage having their time to shine, given their opportunity to show that they were capable of more than just playing stereotypical black women. which again was something I’ve never seen
Fast forward again to after the show OMG OMG OMG!! IT WAS SO GOOD LIKE IT WAS SPECTACULAR! THIS WAS HONESTLY THE BEST PLAY I HAD EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE! Each actress fit their character so well, the set was simple but tasteful, the musical numbers were fantastic, UGHHH it was amazing. and TREY FRICKIN ANTHONY WASSSSS OUTSTANDING!! I felt like seeing her actually there onstage I was extremely starstruck!! So after the show I wanted to wait around cause I felt in my heart and soul that the cast would come out and mingle with the audience members however because it was a class trip we had to leave right away and I never got to meet her....................THAT NIGHT!
Of course because the play was so superb I told my family we HAD to go see it!! I even paid for all 8 of the tickets we got (which were not cheap) Hours before the show started I tweeted at Trey Anthony one last time and said that night would be the night i meet her...... and after the show that night, after waiting around for about 20mins and pestering my whole family to wait with me...................I.........
It was honestly one of the best experiences of my life, words can not even begin to describe how I was feeling the moment i met her or right after it happened. It was surreal! The reason for me being so fixated on Da Kink in My Hair and Trey Anthony is this type of stuff never happens. I don’t think I’ll ever see another play in my university life with a black women playing a lead role and a majority black cast. So I want to milk the hell out of this opportunity to speak on black women in theatre as well as speak on someone that basically paved the way for not only black women but queer women of color in theatre. Trey Anthony has inspired me so much to continue to follow my dreams of being in dramatic arts and to not give up no matter what trials and tribulations i’m faced with. and for that I say Thank you
