The Spotlight Dominic Sessa
THE HOLDOVERS’ BREAKOUT STAR ON GRADUATING FROM SCHOOL TO THE BIG SCREEN
WORDS JOHN NUGENT KAREEM BLACK
ACTING WAS NEVER really the plan for Dominic Sessa. “I kind of off-handedly stumbled into acting,” the 21-year-old admits. “I was a big ice hockey player growing up. That was the big dream of mine at the time.” In 2016, a few weeks before his first hockey season at high school, however, an accident sent him in a different direction. “Before we even played our first game, I broke my femur while skateboarding. So I wasn’t able to play hockey.” Needing to fill an extracurricular slot in his studies, he joined that year’s musical at his boarding school, the historic Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. The acting bug quickly bit him.