stage-struck

British  

adjective

1. infatuated with the glamour of theatrical life, esp with the desire to act

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Example Sentences

"I'm not stage-struck now. Nobody's more surprised than I am that I have, in fact, spent my life doing this."

From BBC

But Broadway is still the dream of stage-struck thespians.

From Los Angeles Times

“No, it’s the toasting fork, with Mother’s shoe on it instead of the bread. Beth’s stage-struck!” cried Meg, and the rehearsal ended in a general burst of laughter.

From Literature

I saw it with my equally stage-struck friend, Scot Osterweil, and after the show we dissected it with the intensity common to know-it-all theater nerds the world over.

From Washington Post

Taken by this “pretty, funny and entrancing girl,” he wrote, and as a stage-struck young man intrigued by her connection to S. N. Behrman, he asked her to profile an editorial writer.

From New York Times