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Exquisite Corps is doing a fundraiser.  A bunch of different directors present staged readings of portions of plays they want to direct.

I’ll be playing Victoria/Singer in the first portion of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play on Thursday and Saturday nights. Directed by Adrienne Boris.

ONE WEEKEND ONLY!
September 9-12, 2010
Thursday @ 8:00pm
Friday @ 8:00pm
Saturday @ 8:00pm*
Sunday @ 2:00pm*

* reception following Saturday and Sunday performances

At the Factory Theatre
491 Tremont St., Boston, MA [map]
$10 suggested donation. No advance reservations.

EP8! Masks

maskwithword Informal Performances, Readings, & Viewings of New Works
October 2, 7 pm
Art at 12 Gallery
Fort Point
FREE.

For our eighth Exclamation Point!, Fort Point Theatre Channel presents a variety of new works on the theme of “masks” from playwrights, puppeteers, filmmakers, poets, songwriters.
I will be directing Robert D. Murphy’s Face Time

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Orphée aux Enfers, Sacred Music, and Art Songs

Quelle chance!

I’m going to be spending six weeks this summer with the Franco-America Vocal Academy in southern France working on French vocal music.  I will play Orphée in the mezzo version of Offenbach’s Orphée aux Enfers, perform solos in concerts of sacred music by Gounod and Saint-Saëns, and prepare songs of contemporary composer Isabelle Aboulker under her tutelage.  I will also get to take lessons in singing, movement, and French.  And did I mention spend six weeks in the south of France in the summer?

Specific performance dates TBA.

Voice & Violin Recital

My violinist sister Julia and I are teaming up to present a lunchtime recital at St. Paul Cathedral in downtown Boston on June 16th.  We’ll be playing Vaughan Williams’s “Along the Field” - settings of A.E. Housman poems - and folk song settings by Rebecca Clarke.

Wednesday, June 16th
12:00-12:30 sharp *time change* (no longer at 12:15)
St. Paul Cathedral
138 Tremont St, across from Park Street Station
Boston, MA

$5 suggested donation goes to benefit the church’s organ fund.
This event is open to the public and you are free to bring your lunch!

College/Bound

A World Premiere Staged Reading of College/Bound, a new musical by Marlena Merrin.

College/Bound is a dramatic comedy about family expectations and college aspirations. There are complications, revelations and transformations. This is a full-length show (2+ hours) and is appropriate for adults and mature teenagers. (Unfortunately we can’t accommodate children under 13, including infants, on June 12th)

When: June 12th 2pm
Running time: 2.5 hours including a 15 minute intermission

Where: Margaret Jewett Hall within the First Congregational Church. The church is on the corner of Garden Street and Mason Street. The entrance to the Hall is actually on Mason Street.
Directions

Cost: $5

Boston Theatre Marathon

Every year a multitude of thespians from companies of all sizes all over Boston converge on the BCA to present 50 new ten-minute plays to the public.  I will be directing Fort Point Theatre Channel’s piece this year: Confirmed Sighting by Patrick Gabridge.

Time of day TBA.

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Stir a Memory/Fort Point Art Walk

Stir a Memory

The smell, the taste of food are so evocative.  Krina Patel and Mary Driscoll of the Fort Point Theatre Channel are teaming up to present “Stir a Memory”, a celebration of food and associated experiences, as part of this spring’s Artwalk.

I’ll be reading in the 4pm session on Sat. May 8th.

Visit Krina’s site.

From Places Unknown

by Jennifer Dubois
Presented by 11:11 Theatre Company

April 30 @ 8pm
May 1, 6, 7, & 8 @ 8pm
May 2 @ 3pm
At the Factory Theatre,   MAP

Laura and Jonah, a childless couple, deal with the arrival and care of a foreign-exchange student.  After the student’s death, the two form separate and competing narratives about who the student was and what their interactions with her meant.  These divergent stories challenge the couple’s marriage and, ultimately, their sense of reality.   I play Alice, one of Laura and Jonah’s neighbors (read: foil).

$15 Online Presale, $17 at the Door
Thursday, May 6 is pay-what-you-can at the door
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EP6: Dramatic Poetry

Friday, May 8th 7-9pm Free.

From those of us who brought you The Science of Love back in February, another evening of eclecticism brings you fresh poems brought to life by actors and multi-media. I will be working on grapefruit and grandfathers and possibly red hair dye. My roommate Leora has a poem featured!

At Bob’s Your Uncle/Front, 25 Channel Center Street, Fort Point neighborhood, Boston, MA (next door to Midway Studios).

I am directing…
“Ways to Eat a Grapefruit” by Leora Fox
“Red in Our Hair” by Ellen Lewis
“Hell’s Angels in a Bar” by Frederick Farryl Goodwin

Caitlin County Hemp Wars

Shelly’s family is in danger of losing their farm in the sweep of competition with agribusiness.  In a last-ditch attempt to keep it in the family, she convinces them to grow industrial help - a once-popular crop with oodles of manufacturing potential.  There’s just one hitch, and that is that non-narcotic hemp was lumped in with marijuana when that plant was made illegal.  And now, even as some states legalize medicinal marijuana, William Randolph Hearst’s paper-lobby legacy lives on in the form of this law.  Can Shelly’s family turn a profit on their hemp and save their farm, or will they get caught and go to jail?

I will be performing as Helen and the Farmer’s Wife in a workshop production of the new musical Caitlin County Hemp Wars at the ART’s Zero Arrow Theatre.  I get to sing a solo in a tango number!

Caitlin County Hemp Wars
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
ART’s Zero Arrow Theatre
Arrow St., Cambridge, MA MAP

$20 per ticket
For advanced tickets
contact Terry Crystal
mail@risingearth.org
or (617) 497-4942
Reservations highly recommended
for this one time special event!