About Me: Live Theater: Create fleshed-out people in musicals and drama, from leading lady to character roles. Joe Franklin said that I had a "great stage presence" when he saw me in a play last year. Body microphone not needed, but use easily. Classically trained, but can be very natural inside a character. Flexible in voice modulation and body acting for medium used. Acting Range - Age 39-49 generally. Northern European extraction. Poised, or not. Very comfortable in period dress/demeanor and modern business suits (15+ years as corporate officer). Forte is strong women, but range is wide. Very good at incorporating accents into the soul of a character. Variety of accents. Widely traveled and have liberal arts degree from Fordham University. Also sing in four languages. Have a NYS drivers license and current U.S. passport. Member of AFTRA. Member of T.R.U. Film & V/T: Flexible; can make work smaller for close-up work, as needed for film. Voice: Mezzo-Soprano, dramatic in opera but tone down for Broadway. Range is from easy E below middle C to easy high G Sharp. Do sing 3 octaves (have performed to high B flat). Voiceover work: Would like to pursue more of this. Good at cold reading in general. Range of voices and moods, characters... Solid, modulated voice is very good for documentary work. But, I love to do silly voices too. Professional, poised, punctual, available daytime, and ready to work.

Short Resume: PROFESSIONAL THEATER, OFF & OFF-OFF BROADWAY

Basinah, SALOME, the Oscar Wilde play as adapted by Melissa O'Brien, directed by Richard Manicello, April 2007

Glinda, WIZARD OF OZ (the Musical), Ray Arrucci, Director, December 2006

Lily/Alma/William's Wife, PIECE OF MIND
Mary Crescenzo, Playwright
Richard Manichello, Director
NY Int'l Fringe Festival, NYC, August 2006 & October 2006

Mary Ann Booth, THE TRADEGY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
M. Stefan Strozier, Playwright Alan Kanevsky, Director
Premier Showcase/Where Eagles Dare Theater, April-May 2006

Mrs. Yeobright, THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE (Musical Drama on Thomas Hardy novel)
John Taylor Thomas, Playwright & Composer Maura Kelley, Director
Equity Showcase/Where Eagles Dare Theater, November 2005, January 2006

Vivian Roberts (Gertrude), PRO: PRINCE WILLIAMSBURG (based on HAMLET)
Colin Huggins, Playwright and Director
Premier Showcase/The Wings Theater, NYC, 2005

Sister Aimee/Celie Martin, THE SACRAMENT OF MEMORY, Peter J. Cameron
Blackfriars Repertory Company, Decapo Opera Theatre, NYC, 2003

TRAGEDY & COMEDY (Area Theater Samples)

Miss Sandwich/Princess Alexandra, ELEPHANT MAN by B. Pomerance, Darien Art Center/Darien Players, CT Peter Barbieri, Director

Ms. Wells, GOING PUBLIC, Showcase Comedy Marcia Gale

Jocasta, THE INFERNAL MACHINE Jean Cocteau

Rose, THE ROOM Harold Pinter
Ruth, THE HOMECOMING Harold Pinter

Olive, THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE John Van Druten
Charlotte Corday, MARAT/SADE Peter Weiss

Grace, SLAVE, Leroi Jones

MUSICAL THEATER AND OPERA (Area Sampling)

2nd Witch (Mezzo) DIDO AND AENEAS (Purcell Opera in English), New Rochelle, NY Richard Slade, Director/Conductor

Marthe Schwerlein, FAUST (Gounod Opera in French), Operesque Co., NYC, Karin Grant, Managing Director

Mistress Quickly, FALSTAFF (Verdi Opera in Italian), TCOC, NYC, Priscilla Gordon, Director

Cherubino, NOZZE DI FIGARO (Mozart Opera in Italian), TCOC, NYC, Priscilla Gordon, Director

Slave and Priestess, AIDA (Verdi Opera with Orch., Italian), New Rochelle Opera Co., Camille Coppola, Director

Gypsy, CARMEN (Bizet Opera with Orch., French), New Rochelle Opera Co., Camille Coppola, Director

Marie Fisher, FIORELLO!, Straw Hat, Fordham Summer Theater, NYC, Lu Minninni, Director

Anna Leonowens, THE KING AND I, Elizabeth Liscio, Director

Nancy, OLIVER!, George Ghirlando, Director

INDEPENDENT FILMS

A LIFE PARALLEL (Martha, Lead), Green Dress Visions, (45 Mins.), Darien, CT, a Diego Siragno Film Shooting May 2008.

ORDINARY PLEASURES (Esther, Co-Lead with Catherine Kim, SAG), SVA Student Film (35 Mins), Bomscent Productions, NYC, Bomyee Hwang, Director, 2008.

THE CRYSTAL BALLROOM, Bonnie, Short Film, Golden Lark Productions, Written & Directed by Cheryl Cambros, December 2006 for Spring 2007 release.

INDUSTRY FILMS

As the Debt Turns (Sally), Corporate Educational Film, produced by Community Capital Resources, Hawthorne, NY, 2008.

SERVANT OF GOD (Voiceover, St. Teresa of Avila) Vocational Film, produced by Knights of Columbus for R.C. Archdiocese of NY, John Sacco, Director; 2006.

SALES TRAINING FOR BANK EXECUTIVES (Officer, 5-minute introduction), Corporate Training Film, produced by Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., 1991.

CLASSICAL & SEMI-CLASSICAL MUSIC WORK
Sound Shore Chorale (Richard Slade and Norman Brooks, Directors) - Mezzo-soprano soloist over the last six seasons in works such as the Vivaldi Gloria, Bach Magnificat, and Handel Messiah, among others.

Lower Eastside Festival of the Arts, May 2006, 2007 and 2008 - Performed opera programs for responsive audiences at the Johnson Theater in the Theater for the New City on opening nights of this annual NYC festival.

Pelham Bay Festival of Opera 2005 - Performed selections from Verdi operas, including "Re dell' abisso affrettati" from Un Ballo in Maschera (Ulrica), the Falstaff "Fugue" (Mistress Quickly), and more.

Professional Other - Repertoire in classics, musical theater, and liturgies; weddings, funerals, concerts, and various other work.
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