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Acting
Preteen and teen years: training and performance with the Cleveland Play House
(LORT)
Later, extensive summer stock/repertory acting from 1969-1978
Genres ranged from The Unsinkable Molly Brown with Tammy Grimes and Howard Keel
to Shaws Mrs. Warrens Profession and the Merchant of Venice with Morris
Carnovsky; Halle Theatre
The Defection of Simas Kidurka with Alan Arkin; CBS-MOW, 1977
American Premiere of Heiner Mullers Cement; Sue Ellen Case, Director, Berkeley
Stage Company, 1979
The Miser ; Fairmount Theatre of the Deaf and PBS in American Sign Language,
1981
Picasso at the Lapine Agile; Sago, understudy, Joan Schirle, director, San
Diego Repertory Theatre, 1999
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival; The Merry Wives of Windsor (tour) and King
Lear; Gershwin Theatre, 2001
Originated the role of Bill in George Soetes Welcome to Group; Actors
Festival, Lyceum Theatre, 2006
Professional Development and Current Issues
Presentation
Create Your Own Theatrical Opportunities; workshop for current acting and
directing students; co-leader with Anthony McLean, Disney Theatrical, Boston
University, Theatre Arts, School of Fine Arts, 1998
Professional Development
Scene Shop Writers Group; The Marsh, 1999-2000
Playwriting; Ken Prestinizi, Studio A.C.T., 2000
Current Issues and Symposia
Poetry Workshop, Charlene Baldridge, 2009
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain; lecture, Dr. Betty Edwards, 2006
Memory and Aging; lecture, Robert E. Clark, Ph.D., 2006
The Sun Belt Dialogues; lecture series, Sam Woodhouse, Louis Valdez, Lalo
Guerrero. San Diego Repertory Theatres Calafia Initiative. Centro Cultural
Tijuana, Mexico, 1999
The 100th Birthday of Bertolt Brecht; symposium, International Brecht Society.
Brechts America and Americas Brecht, UCSD, 1998
Keynote speech: Robert Brustein
Sessions attended; Recent Brecht Productions; The
Electronic Brecht (on CD); Plenary: Theater
Directors on Brecht
Joseph Chaikin; A Life in the Theatre, symposium,
University of California, San Diego, 1996
Texas Center for Writers, University of Texas, Austin
MFA Playwrights Program, 1995
Observation and critique of MFA Playwright Candidates work
Professional Development And Current Issues
A Better Direction; seminar, Michael Billington moderator with Jane Lapotaire,
Kenneth Rea and Clare Venables, National Theater, London, 1992
Performance Observations; London and various regional theatres in West Germany
1979, 1990, 1992
M. Butterfly: From Option to Opening; seminar with cast, producer and marketer,
American Theatre Wing, 1988
Favorite Critic: John Lahr
Press (Partial Listing)
Caf Depresso Group Therapy; Anthony Della Flora, Albuquerque Journal
Bistro Pay Tallies Despairs Body Count; M. Maiello, The Daily Lobo
Making a Killing at San Diegos Murder Mystery Caf; Nancy Churnin, The Angeles
Times
Fringe Theatre; Welton Jones; The San Diego Union
Diversionary is Garnering Some Deserved Credibility; Nancy Churnin, Los Angeles
Times
Puppet Lady Pulls Strings?; Dinah McNichols, The San Diego Reader
Production at San Diego State to Address Hard Issues; Della Elliott, The Daily
Californian
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Acting, Boston University, School of Fine Arts, 1980
Graduate studies, Speech and Language Pathology, San Francisco State University
and San Diego State University, 1983-85
Certificate in Meeting and Special Events Planning, San Diego State University,
1998
Playwriting studies, University of New Mexico, 1994-95
Awards
Nicky Award, Outstanding Achievements in the Arts, San Diego, California, 1996
Scholarship, League of Professional Theatre Training Programs, Boston
University, School of Fine Arts, 1979
Membership
Theatre Communication Group
Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
Theatre Bay Area
Tom Vegh