Experience….
Artistic Director 2012-present
Arizona Theatre Matters, Phoenix Arizona
In-progress:
- When Churchyards Yawn – a Divine Comedy by Jeanmarie Simpson
- Bambino Mio – a new play by Jeanmarie Simpson
- The Jewish Question – a new play by Jeanmarie Simpson
- Pineapple and Other Options – a new play by Jeanmarie Simpson
Associate Artist, Project Specialist (2008-2012)
Kore Press, Tucson Arizona
Founding Artistic Director 1989 – 2008
Nevada Shakespeare Company (NSC)
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) constituent company
Actors’ Equity Association contracts: Letter of Agreement, LORT D, TYA
Professional Associations:
- Dramatists Guild of America
- Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
- Actors’ Equity Association (retired)
- Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA (retired)
Published Commentary
Online
- BroadwayWorld.com (many)
- Buzzine (many)
- Common Dreams (3)
- Many others
American Theatre Magazine (TCG, New York)
- The Food Issue (recipe contributor) April 2010
- Days of Our Lives (contributor) September 2004
- Some Immoderate Thoughts on the Training of Actors, October 2002
NEON (NV. Arts Council),
- But for True Need, Interview with Hal Holbrook, Spring 2001
- Rude Mechanicals, Summer 1993
- Many others
Acting (representative, 1982-Present)
Film
- 2020 Heretic – the Mary Dyer story – Mary Dyer (voice)
- 2006 A Single Woman – Jeannette Rankin. Also author.
Theatre
| Off-Broadway | ||||
| 2005 | A Single Woman | Jeannette | The Culture Project, NYC | J. Simpson |
| Regional | ||||
| 2011-17 | Heretic | Mary Dyer | Arizona Theatre Matters | MK Riddell |
| 2008-09 | Coming In Hot
The Color of Rose August Osage County |
17 Characters
Rose Kennedy Violet |
Kore Press (tour) Theatre 40, Beverly Hills
Theatre 40, Beverly Hills (seminar) |
Lisa Bowden Ann Hearn
Dorothy Sinclair |
| 2007 | Shakespeare’s Will | Anne | Theatre 40, Beverly Hills | Leonard Nimoy |
| 2005 | Hamlet | Gertrude | NSC | J. Simpson |
| Richard III | Elizabeth | NSC | J. Simpson | |
| 2004 | A Single Woman | Jeannette | NSC | Cameron Crain |
| 2003 | The Road to Mecca | Elsa Barlowe | NSC | Zakes Mokae |
| Amigas | Marjorie | NSC | Cameron Crain | |
| 2001 | Romeo and Juliet | Lady Capulet | NSC | David Ellenstein |
| 2000 | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | NSC | Cameron Crain |
| 1999 | Sailing to Byzantium | Maude Gonne | NSC | Bob Barsanti |
| 1997 | The Front Page | Hildy | Summer Palace, Pullman Wash | George Caldwell |
| Pirates of Penzance | Ruth | Summer Palace | Paul Wadleigh | |
| 1996 | Comedy of Errors | Adriana/others | Weird Sisters, Reno | L. Martina Young |
| Moonblood | J Witch | Weird Sisters | L. Martina Young | |
| 1995 | Cardenio | Wife | Group Theatre, Reno | Eric Davis |
| Taming of the Shrew | Kate | Group Theatre | Eric Davis | |
| 1993 | Anything Goes | Reno | Summer Palace | George Caldwell |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Maggie | Actors Repertory Theatre, Las Vegas | Georgia Neu | |
| 1992 | The Skin of our Teeth | Sabina | Summer Palace | Terry Converse |
| Miss Firecracker | Elaine | Summer Palace | Shawn Shepard | |
| A Shayna Maidel | Lusia | Actors Repertory Theatre | Georgia Neu | |
| 1991 | Beyond Therapy | Charlotte | Daring Explorations, Reno | Jeff Clark |
| 1989 | The Soldier’s Tale | Devil | UNR/Music & Dance Fest | David Gardiner |
| 1988 | Strange Snow | Martha | The Actors Project, Reno | Penny Metropulos |
| Tintypes | Emma | The Actors Project | Reed Jones | |
| 1987 | A Shayna Maidel | Rose | The Actors Project | Cynthia White |
| 1986 | Aunt Dan & Lemon | Dan | Nevada Repertory Co. | Dave Anderson |
| Twelfth Night | Maria | Nevada Repertory Co. | Bob Dillard | |
| 1982 | Camelot | Guenevere | Coeur d’Alene Theatre, Idaho | Ralph McCoy |
Directing (representative)
2006 As You Like It Nevada Shakespeare Company
2005 A Single Woman The Culture Project/Nevada Shakespeare Company
2003 King Lear Nevada Shakespeare Company (NSC), Reno
2002 The Trojan Women Nevada Shakespeare Company
2001 Richard III Nevada Shakespeare Company
2000
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Nevada Shakespeare Company
Annie Get Your Gun Nevada Shakespeare Company
Hamlet Nevada Shakespeare Company
1999 Steel Magnolias Nevada Shakespeare Company
1997 Night Game Odd Duck Studios, Seattle
1996 Diary of Ann Frank Actors Repertory Theatre, Las Vegas
1995 The Corn is Green Nevada Shakespeare Company
1996 The Tempest Nevada Shakespeare Company
1993 Steel Magnolias Summer Palace, Pullman Washington
1992
The Woolgatherer Nevada Shakespeare Company
Women Heroes Nevada Shakespeare Company
1991
‘Night, Mother Nevada Shakespeare Company
Painting Churches Nevada Shakespeare Company
1990
Under Milk Wood, Theatre on Broadway, Denver
Cost of Innocence, Denver Center/Colorado Dramatists
1989 Quilters NSC (inaugural production)
1988 Greater Tuna, Ramada Showroom, Reno
1986/87 Richard (or a visit to a small Plantagenet), Reno Shakespeare Festival
1986 Here We Are, Reno Shakespeare Festival
Playwriting
2013 Liberty’s Children (Commission, Be the Change Project)
2010 Heretic (previously Mary’s Joy, The Joy) (Arizona Theatre Matters)
2009 Coming In Hot (co-adaptation, Powder: writing by women in the ranks from Vietnam to Iraq)
2006 On Track: the Brian Willson Story (in-progress)
2004 A Single Woman NSC/California Stage
2003 Amigas NSC (co-adaptation, Amigas: letters of friendship and exile)
2002 Tuesday’s Child Nevada Shakespeare Company
1997 Ringers Odd Duck Studios, Seattle
1997 Platte River Paradox Odd Duck Studios, Seattle
1996 Moonblood NSC/Sierra Arts Center, Reno (co-written with 2 others)
1996 Chimera: weaving the fragments NSC/Women’s Studies, UNR
1995 In My Own Image Comstock Arts Council, Virginia City
1994 Halloween Gannet Foundation Commission
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.
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