Cruise Control

Carnegie Mellon Today: "As a dedicated and trained actress, Paula Wagner walked into her agent’s Los Angeles office ready to discuss her career’s direction. She had been honing her craft since the age of 13 and earned a degree from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama—where she says she thrived on the “education” of sitting with her classmates in Skibo; talking candidly with renowned dancer and professor Paul Draper about the Hollywood black lists; discussing thought and expression in Gladys Schmitt’s class; or being a part of Draper’s creative senior show that somehow combined tap dance, T.S. Eliott, and Jim Morrison’s music."