Ever so rarely in a teacher’s journey do they find a student that is truly a “star”. The student hungrily eats up everything that you are offering as long as you keep the stakes on the challenge high. But as they approach their senior year, and they have rather exhausted your lectures, plays, and exercises – – you get this feeling in your gut that “the student has outreached the teacher” and it is time for them to go. Luckily this didn’t happen until the last month of his senior hear!! Now it was time to watch and pray. I had hope that Juilliard would provide this challenge and make this student sweat, and, of course, I was right. Jullaird came and went and off they jumped into the insane world of film/theatre! Patrick Heusinger was my “outreached star.” The proof was obvious. You can look him up on IMDP or just trust that anyone who can play the evil foil to Tom Cruise has what it takes.