Prince said Harvard students, who cannot earn a degree in the performing arts, are not at a disadvantage if they wish to enter theater production as a career.
"The extracurricular route is a sound one," Prince said. "You don't need someone standing over you with a stick and beating you with what plays you need to read."
At 16 years old, Prince entered the University of Pennsylvania and began his career in the footlights by acting.
"The minute the men came back from war, I stopped getting roles," Prince quipped.
The director's visit to campus yesterday began with a lunch of crabcakes at the Faculty Club before his hour-long question-and-answer session in Cabot.
"He's really inspirational for someone like me, who's looking to go to New York," said Sara A. Yellen '00. "I want to be him."