It was kind of surreal being surrounded by so much talent and so many professional people. “It was my first big production that I was a part of. “That was really great,” Konefal enthuses. It wasn’t long before she scored her first gig, guesting in the ABC hit MODERN FAMILY in scenes with Sarah Hyland (ex-Heather, ONE LIFE TO LIVE). I learned so much more about life and what real life means.” I think that I learned more in the year that I took off of school and in L.A., working and being by myself, than I ever learned in ‘school-school’, if that makes sense. I was starting to pay my own bills and get car and health insurance, and all of these adult things that I had to do were suddenly my responsibility. The East-to-West Coast adjustment, she describes, “was difficult in the beginning. I ended up driving for 23 hours straight to try to outrun the storm and instead of taking one straight route to California, I ended up just driving in S’s across the country because I was trying to run away from the weather!” “I thought I was going to outdrive the snowstorm but I ended up not doing that. “I decided to drive out to California in the middle of one of the biggest snowstorms in history,” she remembers. It was like acting boot camp.”Īfter a brief stint in college, she and her friends road-tripped to California, where Konefal was moving to pursue her career. “I went to a professional performing arts middle school and then I went to a professional performing arts high school, LaGuardia High School, and that’s where they trained me for four years. “At the end of the play, I leaned over to my mom and said, ‘Mommy, I want to do that.’ ” Konefal’s mother, who once had her own dreams of acting, “signed me up for that off-Broadway production center and I worked with them for a couple of years.” Konefal continued to hone her skills throughout her educational years. “When I was 7 years old, we had a school class field trip to see The Hobbit in an off-Broadway theater production company and my mom chaperoned,” she recalls. Victoria Konefal knew from a young age that performing was her future.
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