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Abigail Kochunas - The Gloria Gifford Conservatory for the Performing Arts

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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Is There a Technique That She's Not Using?

"She's very like sexual in her directing and her teaching," she says. "I've witnessed her telling a male student to take a female student over his lap and spank her hard." She would direct really, really fast to get you somewhere - but it'd be like slapping too. In rehearsals, if you kissed in the scene, you didn't kiss in the rehearsal. You were not allowed to date or sleep with anyone else in class.

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