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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.
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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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Chekhov’s Last Love

This full-length play is part of the New England Russian Theatre Festival at the Boston Playwright’s Theatre. The show follows Chekhov and the actress Olga Knipper who created leading roles in his plays and whom he eventually married. I play Masha, Anton Chekhov’s sister and caretaker whose life is bound up in her brother and his work.

Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
949 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
February 18, 19, 20, 21, 2010

February 18 and 19: $15 adults, $12 seniors and students
February 20 Gorky’s Park Children’s Program - $8 adults, $6 seniors and students, $5 children, Under age 5 free!
February 20 and 21 Half day - $15 adults, $12 seniors and students; All day $25.00
Rush tickets available $5 cash only (all four days) Available only 10 minutes before curtain, based on availability

Carny Knowledge

For six marvel-filled nights in January and February, playwrights, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, and roustabouts, along with diverse practitioners of the carny crafts, will create an unforgettable evening of ballyhoo, burlesque, and incomparable entertainment.

Carny Knowledge draws its inspiration from the sideshows that spread across the nation from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. In most any town of any size, curious onlookers would gather near the midway of the fair or the circus to hear sideshow barkers tout the wonders available to those willing to pay just a few cents to see what they couldn’t view anywhere else in those days before international air travel and television . . . before the exploration of every corner of the planet seemed to rid the world of mystery.  Carny Knowledge will join short theatrical works, carnival sideshow acts, the Carny Band, and artistic installations to create an environment enveloping audiences and performers alike.

I will be directing John Weagly’s Scuffle and Jump and acting in Peter Cavell’s Tales of the Midnight Carnival.

Carny Knowledge
Silvia Graziano & Marc S. Miller, Impresarios
January 29-February 6, 2010
18+
Cambridge YMCA Theatre
820 Mass. Ave.
Central Square, Cambridge MAP

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