Scott Adsit’s favorite memories of Glenbrook North are those many share: building homecoming floats for the parade, the annual Paint the Town celebration, and singing in Chorale. However, during his time performing in different theatre groups at GBN, he found his passion in life. Under the direction of former theater directors Pat Murphy and Charles Dribin, he learned how to turn that passion into his life’s purpose of acting. Adsit, a 1984 graduate, has performed on numerous stages worldwide and starred in several movies and TV shows. His most notable role was Pete Hornberger on the NBC hit series “30 Rock,” which ended after a successful seven-season stint. Looking back, it was his time spent in the theater department with teachers like Murphy and Dribin that he started to develop as an actor. They were demanding of him as a performer but also supportive and inspiring. Murphy and Dribin allowed him to exercise his creativity freely in improv sketches and held him to professional standards. The pinnacle of his GBN acting career came when he was in the North American premiere of “The Golden Masque of Agamemnon.” The controlled but silly experience of learning to trust each other within a cast of 40-60 people at eight-hour rehearsals made him fall in love with assembling a performance. After finishing his years as a Spartan, Adsit attended Columbia College to study filmmaking but eventually transitioned into acting. Then he landed his favorite job of his career: Second City. As an improviser at Second City, he learned what it was like to own a show, winning a Jeff Award for his performance. His other notable achievements include minor roles in popular sitcoms like “Friends” and “The Office.” He also collaborated with friend Dino Stamatopoulos on a sketch comedy show called “Mr. Show,” and the pair later ventured into creating the stop motion animation program “Moral Orel” for the Adult Swim TV network, which earned him a nomination for an animation award for his voice work. He also wrote, directed, produced, and voiced several characters in another stop-motion animated program, “Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole,” which featured innovative stop-motion techniques using origami from folded-up pictures of the show’s creators. He is currently working on various projects, including a feature film, an indie movie in LA, a play in New York, performing improv, and writing a Marvel comic book. He also plans to visit the troops in Afghanistan soon with a group of celebrities.