ACTING CREDITS
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Much of my acting work in the last 18 years has been as part of longtime collaborations with groups of artists creating new work. Here's a little context for the roles I originated:
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CONNI'S AVANT GARDE RESTAURANT
Sue James, a fireplug of a general manager Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant a retrospective of the under-appreciated ouvre of the legendary Miss Conni Convergence, in which a five-course meal is served Olga, the belabored, sex-starved eldest Irina's Birthday Party an adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters where all of the men are played by inanimate objects and the audience eats cake Viola, the stranded twin Little West 12th Night and Illyria, theatrical walking tours of the meatpacking district and the lower east side, respectively, in which the aristocracy of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night are re-imagined as NYC real-estate elite Cady, a swinging small-pond celebrity The Secret Social a commission by Cleveland Public Theatre in which the audience is admitted to a secret club, votes on its newest member, and eats borscht |
COLLABORATIONS WITH AYA OGAWA
Multiple Roles, daughter, sister, American, narrator
Journey to the Ocean
a commission from the Foundry Theatre to create a play with Adhikaar, a Queens-based organization that served women from Nepal, which revealed stories of indentured servitude
Helen, an overachieving, extremely sincere junior high student
Oph3lia
the story of a Japanese woman moving to New York
COLLABORATIONS WITH JEFFREY FRACE
Little Horse, an orphan girl
The Story of Little Horse
a melodrama set in the old American West
Claribel Cone, art collector, spinster, and rebel
A Night at the Cafe with Picasso and Matisse
a commission for the Frist Museum in Nashville, to accompany their touring exhibit of the Cone collection
INTERNATIONAL WOW COMPANY
Blind Woman on the Side of the Road, blue-grass singing duela of the story
Orphan on Gods Highway
intersecting stories of couples on their journey
Ms. Hall, a hardened businesswoman diagnosed with cancer
HyperReal America
a mediated story of coming of age in America
Jackie, a coal miner (among multiple roles)
Death of Nations, Parts 1-3
stories of globalization devised with members of B-Floor Theatre Company, based in Thailand
Multiple Roles, daughter, sister, American, narrator
Journey to the Ocean
a commission from the Foundry Theatre to create a play with Adhikaar, a Queens-based organization that served women from Nepal, which revealed stories of indentured servitude
Helen, an overachieving, extremely sincere junior high student
Oph3lia
the story of a Japanese woman moving to New York
COLLABORATIONS WITH JEFFREY FRACE
Little Horse, an orphan girl
The Story of Little Horse
a melodrama set in the old American West
Claribel Cone, art collector, spinster, and rebel
A Night at the Cafe with Picasso and Matisse
a commission for the Frist Museum in Nashville, to accompany their touring exhibit of the Cone collection
INTERNATIONAL WOW COMPANY
Blind Woman on the Side of the Road, blue-grass singing duela of the story
Orphan on Gods Highway
intersecting stories of couples on their journey
Ms. Hall, a hardened businesswoman diagnosed with cancer
HyperReal America
a mediated story of coming of age in America
Jackie, a coal miner (among multiple roles)
Death of Nations, Parts 1-3
stories of globalization devised with members of B-Floor Theatre Company, based in Thailand
