Professional Record
Resume
Five decades across acting, directing, playwriting, producing, and teaching.
Experience
Artistic Director — 2012–presentArizona Theatre Matters, Phoenix, Arizona. In-progress works: When Churchyards Yawn, Bambino Mio, The Jewish Question, Pineapple and Other Options.
Associate Artist, Project Specialist — 2008–2012Kore Press, Tucson, Arizona.
Founding Artistic Director — 1989–2008Nevada Shakespeare Company. Theatre Communications Group constituent company; Actors’ Equity contracts: Letter of Agreement, LORT D, TYA.
Professional associations
Dramatists Guild of America · Stage Directors and Choreographers Society · Actors’ Equity Association (retired) · SAG-AFTRA (retired)
Film
| 2020 | Heretic – the Mary Dyer story — Mary Dyer (voice) |
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| 2006 | A Single Woman — Jeannette Rankin. Also author. |
Special skills
Trusting the material; producing work with little or no budget (once taught a college course titled “Theatre on a Shoestring: how to produce a show for $25 or less”); dialect artist — any dialect with some lead time (also coach); teacher of voice, acting, dance and yoga; great with kids and animals; bread baker; candle maker.
Acting — representative, 1982–present
| 2005 · Off-Broadway | A Single Woman — Jeannette, The Culture Project, NYC |
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| 2011–17 | Heretic — Mary Dyer, Arizona Theatre Matters, dir. MK Riddell |
| 2008–09 | Coming In Hot — 17 characters, Kore Press tour · The Color of Rose — Rose Kennedy, Theatre 40 · August: Osage County — Violet, Theatre 40 (seminar) |
| 2007 | Shakespeare’s Will — Anne, Theatre 40, dir. Leonard Nimoy |
| 2005 | Hamlet — Gertrude · Richard III — Elizabeth, NSC |
| 2003–04 | A Single Woman — Jeannette · The Road to Mecca — Elsa, dir. Zakes Mokae · Amigas — Marjorie |
| 1999–2001 | Romeo and Juliet — Lady Capulet · Macbeth — Lady Macbeth · Sailing to Byzantium — Maude Gonne |
| 1992–97 | The Front Page — Hildy · Pirates of Penzance — Ruth · Comedy of Errors · Moonblood · Cardenio · Taming of the Shrew — Kate · Anything Goes — Reno · Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — Maggie · The Skin of our Teeth — Sabina · Miss Firecracker — Elaine · A Shayna Maidel — Lusia |
| 1982–91 | Beyond Therapy — Charlotte · The Soldier’s Tale — Devil · Strange Snow — Martha · Tintypes — Emma · A Shayna Maidel — Rose · Aunt Dan & Lemon — Dan · Twelfth Night — Maria · Camelot — Guenevere |