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During 2008 I produced a short film called Goodbye. I wrote the script and
organized the project which started as an excuse to generate reel footage
and ended up being a highly educational and very exciting collaborative
process with the awesome women I involved in it. The short featured myself
and Alisha Spielmann. Maura Kelley directed and Melissa Whitely filmed it.
This was the first time I initiated a film project.
At NYU some friends and I formed The Hyperbolic Players and we
produced 8 plays together over 3 years in NYC. We had all studied acting
together and were eager to put our education into practice. The founding
members of this company were James Ford, Emily Stokes, Alexandra Gray,
Aubrey Chamberlin and myself. I got to play some excellent roles and learned
about marketing, space negotiation, fund raising, performance rights, press
releases and I did a fair amount of graphic design. Below are the plays we
produced before disbanding in 1999:
organized the project which started as an excuse to generate reel footage
and ended up being a highly educational and very exciting collaborative
process with the awesome women I involved in it. The short featured myself
and Alisha Spielmann. Maura Kelley directed and Melissa Whitely filmed it.
This was the first time I initiated a film project.
At NYU some friends and I formed The Hyperbolic Players and we
produced 8 plays together over 3 years in NYC. We had all studied acting
together and were eager to put our education into practice. The founding
members of this company were James Ford, Emily Stokes, Alexandra Gray,
Aubrey Chamberlin and myself. I got to play some excellent roles and learned
about marketing, space negotiation, fund raising, performance rights, press
releases and I did a fair amount of graphic design. Below are the plays we
produced before disbanding in 1999:
Adventures in Producing
The Conduct of Life
Somewhat Shakespeare
Tornado
Savage Love & The War in Heaven
Iphigenia at Aulis
The Illusion (Kushner's adaptation)
Agreeing to Disagree
Rounded with a Sleep
Somewhat Shakespeare
Tornado
Savage Love & The War in Heaven
Iphigenia at Aulis
The Illusion (Kushner's adaptation)
Agreeing to Disagree
Rounded with a Sleep
July 1996
October 1996
July 1997
September 1997
December 1997
June 1998
September 1998
April 1999
October 1996
July 1997
September 1997
December 1997
June 1998
September 1998
April 1999
NYU Loeb Student Center
NYU Tisch Studio Theater
The Producer's Club
The Interlude Theater
The Kraine Theater
Theater 22
Theater 22
The Present Company
NYU Tisch Studio Theater
The Producer's Club
The Interlude Theater
The Kraine Theater
Theater 22
Theater 22
The Present Company
I have also produced with Tea Time Productions. Tea Time
consists of myself, Amy Bennett Wratchford and Emily Stokes. Basically a
Tea Time production is born when I get a wild hair, call my best friends
and purge a complex plan into the phone talking a mile-a-minute at the
end of which I stop for breath to ask "So! Are you in?" Then God love
'em, they say "YES!" and we're in business. So far they've said "yes"
twice...
Our first production was Fefu and Her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes
which we produced in January of '99 at the Actor's Loft. The Actor's Loft
was a small theater that was part of the owner's apartment. Since the
middle act of the play is supposed to happen in different places with
simultaneous action that the audience is meant to rotate through we
persuaded the owner to let us use her kitchen and living room for this
purpose. Many of the fine actresses we worked with in this production
thanked me for the experience and invited their families from across the
country to see the play which is something I am extremely proud of.
We also sold out!
Our second production was The Riders which was a two-woman play
about motorcycling conceived, written and performed by myself and Amy
Bennett, directed by Emily Stokes. We performed it to rave reviews in the
2000 New York International Fringe Festival at the Collective Unconscious
venue. Amy and I both learned how to ride motorcycles the same year
and together we had some fantastic stories to show for it - crazy
experiences running the gamut from exhilaration to humiliation . So we
laced them together into a duet. We each played ourselves plus in her
scenes I played the supporting characters and she did the same in mine.
It was an amazing scary ride to put myself out there on stage as myself
performing in my own words and I'm really proud that we pulled it off
together.
consists of myself, Amy Bennett Wratchford and Emily Stokes. Basically a
Tea Time production is born when I get a wild hair, call my best friends
and purge a complex plan into the phone talking a mile-a-minute at the
end of which I stop for breath to ask "So! Are you in?" Then God love
'em, they say "YES!" and we're in business. So far they've said "yes"
twice...
Our first production was Fefu and Her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes
which we produced in January of '99 at the Actor's Loft. The Actor's Loft
was a small theater that was part of the owner's apartment. Since the
middle act of the play is supposed to happen in different places with
simultaneous action that the audience is meant to rotate through we
persuaded the owner to let us use her kitchen and living room for this
purpose. Many of the fine actresses we worked with in this production
thanked me for the experience and invited their families from across the
country to see the play which is something I am extremely proud of.
We also sold out!
Our second production was The Riders which was a two-woman play
about motorcycling conceived, written and performed by myself and Amy
Bennett, directed by Emily Stokes. We performed it to rave reviews in the
2000 New York International Fringe Festival at the Collective Unconscious
venue. Amy and I both learned how to ride motorcycles the same year
and together we had some fantastic stories to show for it - crazy
experiences running the gamut from exhilaration to humiliation . So we
laced them together into a duet. We each played ourselves plus in her
scenes I played the supporting characters and she did the same in mine.
It was an amazing scary ride to put myself out there on stage as myself
performing in my own words and I'm really proud that we pulled it off
together.
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