ABSTRACT OF THE THESISUCSD: Troublemakers WelcomebyJane AnyanwuMaster of Fine Arts in Theatre and Dance (Acting)University of California, San Diego, 2013Professor Kyle Donnelly, ChairI am a performer. It is what I do. There's a time I believe where I tried to suppress it. I think I lied for a few years in my teens telling my parents I wanted to be a doctor. But I wasn't interested in math and I was really loud. All it took was a student performance of Lend Me a Tenor, and my parents hopes and dreams for their bright eyed middle child to be a doctor, dashed with the lines. See, I come from a Nigerian, well-educated ambitious bunch of arguing intellectuals. My mother is a nurse my father was an engineer who in his youth, fought in the Biafr...