{"id":146796,"date":"2026-02-27T00:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146796\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T00:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:37:06","slug":"new-york-city-actress-speaks-to-kansas-state-university-students-ahead-of-on-campus-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146796\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City actress speaks to Kansas State University students ahead of on-campus show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A New York City actress is bringing her talents from The Big Apple to The Little Apple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Heather Massie is bringing \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heathermassie.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.heathermassie.com\/\">HEDY! The Life and Inventions of Hedy Lamarr<\/a>\u2019 to McCain Auditorium Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ahead of her show, she spoke to theatre students at Kansas State University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWell because it\u2019s part of my mission,\u201d Massie said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to just come and do the show, I want to do community engagement and contribute to the community and learn about the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Massie attended a Fundamentals of Acting course at K-State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cNew York is just crazy to come down here to Kansas,\u201d freshman student Saraeh Ransom said. \u201cLike, I wouldn\u2019t expect it, especially being a Kansas-born person to have someone from such a unique place come down here to talk to us and to do stuff like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think it\u2019s important for someone else to come in and say to them \u2018Everything that you have is enough in the world and is going to contribute to your field or the people that you care about in special ways that no one else has,\u2019\u201d Graduate Teaching Assistant Jaac Nischbach said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Massie\u2019s solo play focuses on how Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr combined her passion of technology with performing arts, encouraging students to do the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMy mission is to inspire audiences, to especially encourage young women in science and technology, but also the arts,\u201d Massie said. \u201cTo inspire all audience members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI think the message that she\u2019s telling is so enduring that people are multi-faceted and that there can be so many dimensions to a single person,\u201d senior student Aidan Heusman said. \u201cAnd it is that uniqueness that makes that person them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">You can see Massie\u2019s performance at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27 at McCain Auditorium. It\u2019s located at 1501 Goldstein Cir in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Get tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.mccain.k-state.edu\/Online\/default.asp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/tickets.mccain.k-state.edu\/Online\/default.asp\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. 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