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Hair: Red/Auburn                    

Eyes: Brown

Height: 5’6”

Voice: mezzo soprano with high belt

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training

The Juilliard School - Group 41, Class of 2012
Studying with Richard Feldman (acting), Rebecca Guy (acting), Ralph Zito (voice/speech), Wendy Waterman (voice/speech), Kate Wilson (voice/speech), Robert Neff Williams (voice/speech), Moni Yakim (movement), Mina Yakim (masks), Deborah Lapidus (singing), Chris Bayes (physical comedy), Mark Olsen (stage combat), Carolyn Serota (Alexander), Jaye Dougherty (Alexander), Darryl Quinton (movement), Sam Gold (POV), Gilllian Lane-Plescia (dialects), Michelle DiBucci (music)

      

Brown University, B.A. in Theatre Arts and English, Class of 2004
Studied w/
Oskar Eustis, Kevin Moriarty, Lowry Marshall, John Emigh, Spencer Golub, Don Wilmeth and Coppelia Kahn.

Shakespeare Lab, The Public Theater, 2007
Studied w/Barry Edelstein, May Adrales, Michael Cumpsty, Kate Forbes,
Suzanne Bertish, movement with Julio Monge, stage combat with J. Steven White, teaching artist training with Michael Wiggins, voice with Robert Perillo and clown with Chris Bayes.

British American Drama Academy (BADA), Oxford, England, 2001
Studied w/David Leveaux
, Deborah Warner, Mark Wing-Davey, Fiona Shaw, and Floyd King.

School of Film and Television, NY, 2005, studied with Mary Ann Conk and Rawleigh Moreland

The Gym, Musical Theatre Class, with John Ruocco, Winter, 2004

SINGING:  Currently studying with Deborah Lapidus, having previously studied with Anne Runolfsson and Beverly Lambert.  Masterclass with Barbara Cook in 2006.

SPECIAL SKILLS:  vocal trumpet, stage combat, piano, composition and vocal arrangement, accents (varied)

stage credits

 

 

The Juilliard School

 

Director

Prospera

The Tempest

Ralph Zito

Roxanne/Claire

Seduction Community

Kip Fagan

Florabel Leigh/Flick

Once in a Lifetime

Rebecca Guy

Conjur Woman/Ma Greeney

Dark of the Moon

Trezana Beverly

Boo

Blue Window

Rebecca Guy

Marina/Dionyza/Gower

Pericles

Richard Feldman

 

 

 

The Public

 

 

Viola/Ophelia/Margaret

Unrequited

Barry Edelstein

 

 

 

Stamford Center for the Arts

 

 

Cathy

The Last Five Years

Michael Perlman

 

 

 

Goodspeed Musicals, CT

 

 

Newscaster/Featured Ensemble

The 60’s Project           

Richard Maltby, Jr.

 

 

 

Trinity Repertory Company, RI

 

 

Lady Anne

Richard III

Amanda Dehnert

Ariel

The Tempest

Jen Swain

Luciana

Comedy of Errors

Mark Sutch

Margaret/Verges

Much Ado About Nothing

Maria Goyanes

 

 

 

Brown New Playwrights Festival, RI                                       Produced by

Paula Vogel

Lila

The Museum Play

Mark Sutch

 

   by Jordan Harrison, original production

 

Temporary Theatre Co., NY

 

 

Clytemnestra

Iphigenia and Other Daughters

Michael Perlman

Anna

And Baby Makes Seven

Lila Rose Kaplan

 

 

 

Center Stage, NY

 

 

Jamie

The Have-Nots Catch a Windfall

Maria Goyanes

 

   by Michael R. Jackson, original production

Greenwich Street Theatre, NY

 

Andromeda     

The Biography of a Constellation

Maria Goyanes

 

   by Lila Rose Kaplan, original reading

 

Makor Theatre, NY

 

 

Grainne

Herself  

Lila Rose Kaplan

 

  original production

 

Brown University, RI (highlights)

 

Lucy

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Jarrod Fisher

Maria

West Side Story

Jessie Austrian

Female Greek Chorus

How I Learned to Drive

Rachel Miller

Acaste

The Misanthrope

Spencer Golub

Livia

Valparaiso       

Ben Sugar

Judy

A Chorus Line

Brian Tellevi

Paquette

Candide

Don Wilmeth

 

 

 

Various readings at the Public Theatre, MCC Theatre, Temporary Theatre,

     NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, and others

film credits

 

 

Christina

Box of Buttons

Natasha Mehler

Livia     

Valparaiso       

Ben Sugar

Voice-over                               

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance

 

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