Jeanmarie Simpson Playwright · Actor · Director Licensing

2000 · Piper’s Opera House, Virginia City, Nevada

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Macbeth

Years

2000

Role

Lady Macbeth

Company

Piper’s Opera House, Virginia City, Nevada

Credit

Directed by Cameron Crain, costumes by Virginia Vogel

The productionA black leather, rock and roll production

The opening dance number was choreographed to Bobby Darin’s Mac the Knife, and Lady Macbeth conjures the whole production.

Twenty-five years later it became the seed of Mackers, the backstage comedy about a Macbeth preview going catastrophically wrong.

Where it sits

A black leather, rock and roll production

Position in the record

Production 9 of 9

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This is production 9 of 9 listed on the site, and it appears in full on the resume alongside every other acting, directing and playwriting credit since 1982.

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Mackers
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Mackers

During a disaster-prone preview of Macbeth, a veteran stage manager, her assistant, and a company of actors fight through superstition, accidents, egos, and escalating technical calamity as the Scottish Play’s famous curse seems to take an increasingly personal…

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