Height 5' 3" |
Hair: Chestnut |
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Film | . |
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Cosmic Radio (with Irene Bedard, Rider Strong, Jonathan Sachar and Daryl Hannah) | Reporter | Los Angeles, CA |
MTV Video "Crazy" K-Ci and JoJo (with Julia Stiles) | Ballet Judge | Los Angeles, CA |
Roswell and Alistair | Lead | New York, NY |
The Metamorphosis | Lead | Chicago, IL |
Theater | . |
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Motherless Child | Nancy | Sarasota, FL |
That Wasn't Me | Claire Hayman | Sarasota, FL |
The Locket | Deborah | Sarasota, FL |
The Congo Project | Seraphine | Idyllwild, CA |
The Dinner Party (Isis Theater Company) | Yvonne | Idyllwild, CA |
What'll You Have (Director Andy Squazzo) | Phyllis | Warner Springs, CA |
Murder By Night (with Carole Kean and Earl Boen) | Antoinette | Los Angeles, CA |
Touch Me Real | Carrie | Quito, Ecuador |
Haha |
Featured Actress | New York, NY (Knitting Factory) |
Welcome Back to Brooklyn Festival (with Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper and Harvey Keitel) |
Featured Actress | New York, NY |
Henry VI, Part II | Duchess Eleanor | Lenox, MA |
No Exit | Inez | Chicago, IL |
The Spirit of Philadelphia | Featured Singer | Philadelphia, PA |
United Nations 50th Birthday Party |
Singer — Finale | New York, NY |
Commercials | List upon request | . |
Training | . |
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Acting: |
Summer Drama Program | Yale University |
Summer Drama Program | Carnegie-Mellon University |
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Summer Training Institute | Shakespeare & Co. |
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Gordon Phillips, Wilma Theater | Philadelphia, PA |
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Diaan Ainslee, Manhattan Edge | New York, NY |
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Larry Moss Studio | Los Angeles, CA | |
Joan Darling (current) | Los Angeles, CA |
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Education: |
B.S. in Performance Studies | Northwestern University |
Honors Program in Creative Writing for the Media | Northwestern University |
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Special Skills |
Singing (soprano). Certified Massage Therapist. Certified Advanced Scuba Diver (PADI). World Traveler. Piano, Recorders, and Cello. Yodeling. Dialectics. Very Athletic. |
Other Notable Experiences and Broadway-Based Coursework |
• Studied creative writing with Poe-Award winning writer, Stuart Kaminski. |
• Studied acting and directing with Tony-Award winner, Frank Galati. |
• Wrote, directed, and acted in Metric-piece, a film on the Metric System. |
• Selected by the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs to participate in the Creative Capital Professional Development Blended Learning Program |
• Written numerous short stories and poems, which have had public readings all over the country, including writing a poem that was performed at a large SGI symposium/cultural event on From Bondage to Freedom -- Awakening the Human Spirit, at Colombia University. Received a standing ovation. |
• Extensive travel throughout and/or lived in Japan, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Macau, Nepal, Israel, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, India, Kenya, France, Switzerland, Holland, Monaco, England, Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador; and throughout the United States. Residences have included in-depth knowledge and relationships with international families, including the family of grandparents living in a Borneo tree house, who had tattoos all over their bodies and earlobes hanging down past their shoulders, and who were headhunters twenty years before. |
• Forty-five-minute private audience experience with the Dalai Lama. |
Grants |
• Two Puffin West Grants -- to begin creating a theater piece Acting for Social Change: Inside the Containers -- about people who are members of various groups that experience prejudice, and what their experiences have been. |
• Three Sarasota Library Grants through EdExplorer to teach
+Writing and Acting the Memoir +Acting +Creative Writing |
• * Three Association of Florida Teaching Artist grants to teach +Acting +Creative Writing +Writing and Acting Memoiric Poetry and Prose |
• PoetryLife Grant
+To teach Writing and Acting the Memoir to survivors of sex trafficking. Individual Artist Grant |
• The Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs recommended my grant application for full funding to the Florida Legislature for the 2018-2019 period (but the government cut out the budget, so no grants could get funded). |
• The Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs funded my grant application for full funding to the Florida Legislature for the 2019-2020 period. |
• The Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs recommended my grant application for full funding to the Florida Legislature for the 2020-2021 period (we are waiting to see if the government gives this its usual budget or cuts it again). |