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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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Pixilerations [v.6]

Arvid and I have been asked back to Pixilerations, part of the FirstWorksProv festival. This time we will be playing a set of songs we are working on called “Awakenings: A potpourri of pithy poems and prose about sleep and awakening set to electro-acoustic music”. Poems by Alan Dugan and Jaime Sabines, prose by John Cage.


PIXILERATED: CONCERT PERFORMANCES II

Saturday, Sept. 26, 8pm, Free
URI Shepard Auditorium, 80 Washington St. [map]
Groundbreaking Electronic And Interactive Performances

Molasses Panty Town

What a great title for a musical! This show revolves around an Italian family in Boston’s North End in 1914, when the only jobs were building the Ginormous Molasses Tank or in the Panty Factory. Little did they know that 6 years later, the tank would ’splode!

This is a staged-reading of a new work, so all “performances” are a work in progress. I’ll be playing multiple roles, including Auntie Maria. Come see us put it on its feet.

Molasses Panty Town
Book and Lyrics by Francine Pellegrino, Music by Michael Hartigan
Directed by Elena Araoz
at the Boston Center for the Arts

Sept 17 (Thursday) at 7:30PM – until 10pm
Sept 18 (Friday) at 8PM – until 10:30pm
Sept 19 (Saturday) at 8pm – until 10:30pm
Sept 20 (Sunday) at 2pm – until 4:30pm
Sept 24 (Thurs) 8pm – until 10pm
Sept 25 (Fri) 8pm – until 10:30pm
Sept 26 - 8pm show  Note: There is a show this evening, but I will not be in it!  (see below)

Entrance is free and we are running at about 1.5 hrs.

Holy Ghosts

I will be in the chorus and covering the role of Cancer Woman for the premiere of this new opera.  Music by Larry Bell and libretto by Andrea Olmstead and Romulus Linney (it is based on his play of the same name).

Holy Ghosts
September 15, 2009
Berklee Performance Center
136 Massachusetts Ave

Boston, MA 02115 MAP