RAT Q&A: Sam Werkema

Name: Sam Werkema

Grade: 12

1. What is your act? 

“I am in two acts, Pitch Imperfect, and the senior guys synchronized swimming act.”

2. How did you prepare?

“We all just kinda met up in the orchestra room like five minutes before we had to go on and printed out the words to our songs.”

3. What made you audition with your act? 

“Well, we didn’t. We had planned to, but then everyone came up with lame excuses for why they couldn’t. Then we found out that they put all of our names on the list anyway. So we just kind of showed up.”

4. How do you feel about cilantro?

“What’s cilantro?”

5. Money, power, or good looks: which would you rather have an unlimited supply of and why?

“Seeing how my bank account reads -$90.57 and I have no influence anywhere… looks. God, I need the looks.”

6. Are you friends with the stage?

“You could say we have had a rocky relationship. He was the best man at my first wedding, but he wasn’t “invited” to my third.”