AEA/SAG-AFTRA
Acting
Television
The Dick & Paula Celebrity Special (FX) — Guest Star
Chasing Life (ABC Pilot) — Guest Star — dir: Steve Miner
Science Court (ABC) — Principal — dir: Tom Snyder
Home Movies (Cartoon Network)
Dr. Katz (Comedy Central)
Hey Monie! (Oxygen)
Film
Irrational Man — President Reeves — dir. Woody Allen
Next Stop Wonderland — Shebola — Miramax/Sundance, dir:Brad Anderson
Mermaids — Mrs. Crain — Orion, dir: Richard Benjamin
Malice — Featured — Castlerock, dir: Harold Becker
March Sisters Christmas — Mom — ABC Lifetime, dir: John Stimpson
Sins of the Preacher — Kathy — ABC Lifetime/dir: John Stimpson
The Fixer Upper — Beth — dir: MaureenBharoocha, prod: A. Ajemian
Theatre (Selected Credits)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — Martha — Lyric Stage, dir: Scott Edmiston
Strip — Woman — Women’s Workshop (Solo Piece), dir: Karen Lordi
Today I Am A Man — Joan — Greenwich Street Theatre, dir: Alan Wynroth
Dances by Isadora — Isadora — Ohio Street Theatre, chor: Patricia Adams
New Century — Helene Nadler — SpeakEasyStage, dir: P. Daigneault
33 Variations — Dr. Brandt — Lyric Stage, dir: S. Veloudos
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? — Stevie — Lyric Stage, dir: S.Veloudos
Red Hot Patriot — Molly Ivins — Lyric Stage, dir: C O'Connor
Antony & Cleopatra — Cleopatra — Actors' Shakespeare, dir:A Krstanski
Macbeth — Lady Macbeth — Actors' Shakespeare, dir: A. Krstanski
Phedre — Phedre — Actors' Shakespeare, dir: Bevin O'Gara
Miss Witherspoon — Miss Witherspoon — Lyric Stage, dir: Scott Edmiston
Plum Pudding — Paula (Solo Piece) — Unadilla Theatre
Ivanov — Babakina — ART, dir: Yuri Yeremen
Mother Courage — Yvette Poitier — ART, dir: Janos Szaz
Lysistrata — Belphragia — ART, dir: Andrei Serban
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed — Vincent — SpeakEasy Stage, dir: Melanie Garber
Marriage of Bette & Boo — Soot — ART, dir: Marcus Stern
Picasso at the Lapin Agile — Germaine — ART, dir: David Wheeler
Not I — Mouth — Gloucester Stage, dir: Israel Horovitz
Lost in Yonkers — Bella — Chiswick Park Theatre, dir: Eric Engel
Shirley Valentine — Shirley — Gloucester Stage, dir: Patrick Swanson
Happy Days — Winnie — Gloucester Stage, dir: Patrick Swanson
Uncle Vanya — Sonia — Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Jumpers — Secretary — Huntington, dir: Jacques Cartier
Directing
WGBH Christmas Celtic Sojourn Concert — Artistic Director (2003-Present)
- Annual hybrid concert of virutosic Celtic musicians and dancers with Brian O’Donovan, producer and host, touring New England for two weeks, culminating in a 6-show weekend at the Emerson Culter Majestic
The Last Schwartz — Gloucester Stage (2016)
School for Scandal — Actors’ Shakespeare Project (2016)
Out of Sterno — Gloucester Stage (2015)
Macbeth — Actors’ Shakespeare Project (2012)
Steel Magnolias — Stoneham Theatre (2011)
Pillowman — Umass Lowell (2009)
Wigged OUT! — Boston Playwrights (2004)
Tell Me On A Sunday — Stuart Street Theatre (1997)
Baltimore Waltz — Lyric Stage (1995)
Jake’s Women — Merrimack Repertory (1992)
I’m Not Rappaport — Gloucester Stage (1991)
Lady and the Clarinet — New Ehrlich Theatre (1986)
Lone Star — Alley Theatre (1985)
Teaching
Drama Teacher (1978-1984) — Buckingham Brown and Nichols Middle School
- Creative Drama, Human Sexuality, Jazz Dance and Dance Improvisation classes taught on middle school level
- Advisor to twelve seventh or eighth graders annually
- Co-authored three musicals based on student improvisation: Time to Dream, Children If You Dare and On the Line
- Director of two school-wide musicals per year
Guest Artist/Actor (1989) — University of North Carolina at Asheville — dir: Arnold Wengrow
- Audition technique on collegiate level
- Rehearsed and performed Life With Father with drama majors
- Coached acting privately
Guest Artist/Director (1995) — University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana — dir: David Knight
- Director of Pirandello’s Right You Are If You Think You Are, full-scale production on University Main Stage with 30 students majoring in Theatre Arts, various levels of ability and training
Professor of Acting (2003) — Suffolk University — dir: Dr. Marylin Plotkin
- Taught beginning acting to non-majors focusing on basic improvisation, breathing, centering, and beginning scene work.
Private Coach (2002-Present) — Private Studio
- Preparing high school seniors for college entrance auditions
- Preparing professional actors for union and non-union productions
Instructor (2002) — Boston Casting
- Audition Technique, Acting for Film and Scene Study for professional actors
Adjunct Professor (2003-2015) — UMass, Lowell
- Acting, Directing, Voice, Movement and Business of Acting at collegiate level
Adjunct Professor (2005-2006) — Boston Conservatory of Music
- Acting at collegiate level
Shakespeare Workout (2009-Present) — Actors’ Shakespeare Project
- Six-week course for professionals interested in deepening their skills with text using the full body and voice in acting Shakespeare
Curriculum Development (2012-2014) —Actors’ Shakespeare Project
- Creator of What’s In A Name?, a citywide engagement program for elders and children to involve families in exploring family legacy, sharing family stories, songs, and recipes culminating in a presentation of those songs and stories interwoven with Shakespeare’s text
Curriculum Development (2011) — SpeakEasy Stage
- As part of Fox Actor Fellowship, developed Handling the Hot Moments—an original workshop exploring how actors negotiate intimacy onstage culminating in a performance of The Blue Room by David Hare
Honors
Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress
- Received in 1995 for Lost in Yonkers
IRNE Awards
- Received Best Actress in 2015 for Death of a Salesman
- Received Best Duo (with Nancy Carroll) in 2010 for Breath of Life and Savannah Disputation
- Received Best Solo in 2004 for Wigged OUT!
- Received Best Actress in 2002 for Miss Price and Wit
- Received Best Actress in 1997 for The Heiress and Plum Pudding
Distinguished Alumna
- Received in 2003 from Boston University College of Fine Arts
- Chosen among 8500 alums for recognition of achievement.
- Highest honor conferred by the University.
Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence
- Received in 2004
Elliot Norton Award for Best Actress
- Received in 2007 for Miss Witherspoon
Fox Actor Fellowship
- Received in 2009 from Theatre Communications Group
- One of five actors nationwide to receive three year grant for study and development of new work with SpeakEasy Stage, host theatre
- Three months in Paris to study mask, clown and acrobatics at Ecole Phillipe Gaulier
- One month at Del Arte Institute to study mask making and mask improvisation
- Three years study/research and programming as Artist in Residence at SpeakEasy Stage.
- Authored original play on the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay entitled What Lips My Lips Have Kissed and directed staged reading
Education
Acting
- B.F.A. Boston University School For the Arts (Cum Laude graduate)
- London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts
- Ecole Philippe Gaulier, Paris studying Mask and Melodrama
- Del Arte Institute studying Movement & Mask with Bruce Marrs
- Improvisation with Keith Johnstone and Daena Giardella
- Graduate Classes at Brandeis University with Ted Kazanoff
Voice
- Kristen Linklater and William Lacey
Dance and Movement
- Joe Gifford, Rozann Kraus and Adrienne Hawkins
Theatre Education
- Graduate Classes at Boston University School For the Arts with Nancy Stone