Dream Jobs: Actor

Dream Jobs: Actor

By Austin Kim
July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019

Ahmed T. Brooks is an actor in Drunk Shakespeare, a retelling of the classic plays.

SHOW TRANSCRIPT

He brings Shakespeare's plays to life in front of an intimate audience. He showed Newsy's Austin Kim around his Dream Job.

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