{"id":8841,"date":"2014-05-19T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8841"},"modified":"2014-05-22T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T20:13:04","slug":"from-tv-to-tcnj-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8841","title":{"rendered":"From TV to TCNJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8842\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8842 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/LD_021814_JBurbage_0177.jpg\" alt=\"LD_021814_JBurbage_0177\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/LD_021814_JBurbage_0177.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/LD_021814_JBurbage_0177-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jake Burbage now (above) and in 2003 (below), when he starred on the sitcom &#8220;Grounded for Life.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Jake Burbage<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major:<\/strong> English<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where you might have seen (or heard) him:<\/strong> As Henry Finnerty on the\u00a0 Fox\/WB sitcom<em> Grounded for Life<\/em> and as the voice of Benny the Bull in <em>Dora the Explorer<\/em>. He also appeared on <em>Hollywood Squares, Sex in the City<\/em> and in several commercials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why he left Hollywood:<\/strong> \u201cI was being home-schooled, and my education was in jeopardy,\u201d says Burbage, who is originally from Delran, N.J. In 2004, he and his parents decided he\u2019d go back to middle school. \u201cI was mature enough to see it was best for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What he\u2019s been doing since:<\/strong> He never really deserted the stage, and acted (and sang) throughout high school. This spring he appeared in All College Theater\u2019s production of <em>Proof<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8843\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/jake-burbage_old.jpg\" alt=\"jake-burbage_old\" width=\"142\" height=\"134\" \/>What he loves about acting:<\/strong> \u201cMy favorite part is the work I do that the audience never sees\u2014figuring out who the character is, his\u00a0 back story, his memories, how he walks, and holds his hands\u2014the whole immersive experience of becoming a person entirely separate from myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why he chose TCNJ:<\/strong> \u201cI have a lot of family who have gone here and spoke highly of it. It was close to home, but far enough away so it wasn\u2019t right on top of home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s on the horizon:<\/strong> \u201cThere are so many things I\u2019m interested in besides acting. Like directing. And writing. It\u2019s hard for me to commit to one thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Top photo (c) Lynne Delade. Bottom photo (c) S_bukley\/Image Collect.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TCNJ freshman Jake Burbage remains \u2018Grounded\u2019 despite childhood fame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}