The fortune of following 2 paths An architect builds out his acting hobby into a second career at the opera

H rom fifth grade on, Philip J. Consalvo wanted to be an architect. "I was a kid who sat and drew things and was always building something," he recalled. He followed his dreams and eventually landed at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He got his first industry job at Fox & Fowle, a leading architecture firm, before moving into freelance work. During these early career years, in the late 1980s, Consalvo began taking acting classes as a hobby.