Liza Colón-Zayas’ Off Broadway theater roots proved the perfect training ground for her turn as Tina on “The Bear” — a role that brought her the Emmy as supporting actress in a comedy series last year.
“Theater is how you get your footing and learn to act,” she says. “And this show is about this rag-tag group of people holding each other up, and that was my story with LAByrinth Theater — it was often a mess but beautiful stuff bloomed somehow.”
But Janelle James found that her very different path, going from an open mic night to a stand-up career in her 30s,…
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