02.03.2009
Happy New Year! What a challenging and productive year 2008 was for me in my home of Washington DC. I moved here in October of 2007 and have been busy working and playing since, or both really since they usually go hand in hand. January is my first break from rehearsals and performing since March and I am enjoying the evenings at home and working just two jobs instead of three! I have two exciting projects lined up for the spring: The Cherry Orchard with Everyman Theatre, which runs March 18-April 26, and Bruise Easy at Catalyst Theatre, May 24-June 21. And already auditions are approaching for the 2009-2010 season. Whew.
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11.18.2008
Wow, what a change of scenery! Last week I was performing in the stormy Caucasian mountains and now I’m rehearsing on Dicken’s streets of London. The timing is perfect and marks the advent of my holiday season. I love the holidays: the cool air and warm hearts, the general buzz of goodwill and family-time. And what a better way to immerse in the season than rehearse and perform in Dicken’s A Christmas Carol every day? The cast of Ford’s A Christmas Carol has jumped right into staging and after four days of rehearsal we already have the show on its feet.
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10.03.2008
Host and Guest opened last Friday to a supportive and congratulatory crowd. Check out my media page for some of our great reviews. The cast has had a wonderful time recreating this piece, adding our own personal style and personality. The physical training has been intense, though we have not had to rehearse with the same Synetic intensity since the show is a remount and most of the creative-improvisational work was done by the original cast. I am sorry to have missed out on that process with the company, though I hope to work with them again next season to help create a show from scratch. The pure physical endurance training along with the pantomime and dance technique we have learned has been invaluable to my personal growth. I feel blessed to be working with such a motivated and joyful company.
I hope you can see the show! We run until November 9th Thursdays through Saturdays 8pm and Sunday matinees at 3pm in the Rosslyn Spectrum in Virginia right across from the Key Bridge.
08.15.2008
For the past month I have been working with the award winning Synetic Theatre, a company based in Shirlington Virginia founded and run by Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili, former citizens of the Republic of Georgia. It has been a long process of auditions, callbacks, training and testing of our physical fitness, talent and stamina. Two weeks ago I found out that I was cast in the role of Jane in the company’s adaptation of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, a 1919 silent film considered the first horror movie which marked the beginning of the German Expressionist period. I was very excited to be honored with the role and eager to begin official rehearsals after the training.
On Friday August 8th the Russian army invaded Georgia. When I returned to rehearsal on Wednesday our director, Paata, announced that the company would no longer be working on Caligari and they would now be remounting Host and Guest, a play the company previously staged based on a Georgian epic poem about the futility of war.
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07.16.2008
Our fringe show, The Fiddler Ghost, has had two successful performances for hearty and appreciative crowds. We’ve had a wonderful time creating the show and performing is a joyful and carefree experience. Please catch one of the four more shows if you can.
Thursday July 17th at 9pm, Friday the 18th at 6pm, Saturday the 19th at 2pm and Sunday the 27th at 7pm, the last day of the festival. We perform in The Forum at Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Harman Center in Chinatown at 610F St NW in downtown Washington DC. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the venue or online at CapFringe.
UPDATE: Audiences voted The Fiddler Ghost as the “Best Dance Show” of the 2008 Capitol Fringe Festival! Thank you for the support!
07.10.2008
On Monday June 30th I participated in a 24 Hour Play Festival as part of a three week celebration of the re-opening of the Source Theatre in downtown DC. Ten playwrights met at the Source on Sunday evening, picked out of a hat a current event, a director and a cast size: then they had all night to write a play. The directors and playwrights met in the morning and from there the actors where called in. We then had all day to stage the script, memorize lines and rehearse the play. It was quite an adventure.
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06.15.2008
After a fulfilling run, The Oresteia closed and soon after I started rehearsals on an ensemble movement-based piece for the 2008 Capitol Fringe Festival with Old Lore Theatre led by Nicholas Allen and John Milosich. The piece is called The Fiddler Ghost and is based on a faerie story from the British Isles. Our ensemble of six movers/actors and one violinist are creating the show from scratch sourced from individual ideas and group exercises and experimentation. I am eager to have a more direct hand in my work and am excited to play with such fun brave artists. We will be performing in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Harman Center in downtown DC the last two weeks of July.
05.16.2008
I am currently performing in a production of The Oresteia by Aeschylus with Constellation Theatre. We opened May 9th and run through June 1st at the Clark St Playhouse in Arlington, VA. It is an epic production directed by Allison Stockman with a cast of twenty nine actors and a creative and dedicated team of designers and assistants. I am sacrificed as Iphegenia (hope I didn’t give it away) in the beginning and return as a Fury in the third play of the trilogy. I have had a great time with my fellow Fury ladies finding a unique physicality and vocalization for our ancient goddesses, while also getting in shape in the process! Please come out and see it if you can!
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I spent my first fall in the District working at Arena Stage on Christmas Carol 1941, an adaptation of the Dickens by James Magruder set in Washington, DC three weeks after the strike on Pearl Harbor. During rehearsals I was a stand-in for the character of Carolyn, and then for the run of the show I was an understudy for the two children in the cast as well as a member of the wardrobe crew. It was a wonderful opportunity and introduction to the theatre community in the area.
