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decarabas over on Facebook:
1). What was the first show you ever did?
Not counting little in-class skits in school and Sunday school, the first show with a seated audience and memorized roles was Cinderella in 6th grade. I played the Wicked Stepmother.
2) What was your most recent show?
For acting, it was a PMRP performance at Arisia. For directing, I'm doing a show now for the T@F festival (one I wrote, in fact!) :-)
3) What was your favorite show/role?
Hard to say. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead was very special to me. A few of the experimental performance works back in the 80s also stand out. The best performance of my life was actually at an audition for a role I didn't get.
4) What was your most challenging show/role?
Mistress Quickly was a big challenge, as was Emilia. Those were in Merry Wives and Othello (sorry, I've got HTML fatigue).
5) What is/are the most bizarre show(s) or role(s) you've ever done?
When Bread & Puppet came to Boston and took on local actors, I played a sheaf of wheat and a flying pig.
6) Has anyone ever written a show for you?
No, but I wrote 4 one-woman shows for myself and performed them (using memorization skills that have long since departed from me)
7) Have you ever quit a show to accept a better one?
I've quit a few shows very early on in the rehearsal process because scheduling just didn't work out, but I've never left a director seriously in the lurch. There were a few times when I should have, though.
8) Have you ever completely blown character on stage?
If by that you mean "break character," no. I can pretty much stay in character through anything. I survived choking on water onstage and still stayed in character.
9) What show(s) are you just dying to do?
I would love to play a character who is completely, frothingly insane. Not functionally insane, I mean screaming and kicking and raving. Mad Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre comes to mind, or one of the inmates in Marat/Sade. I would also like to be in The Laramie Project.
10) Have you ever done one of your "dream" shows?
Yes, I got to be in two different productions of Godspell.
11) Who was your favorite director?
Oh, I've had lots of really great directors. They each had their own unique qualities that I really enjoyed and admired.
12) Who was your least favorite director?
I was in a production of Pippin, and the director was a bellowing ass who screamed and bullied, and no one could feel any respect for him. He was just awful. Halfway through the rehearsal period the actor playing the lead saw to it that he was fired. Later the awful director went to jail for embezzling several thousand dollars from the Rochester Gay Men's Chorus.
13) What is the most surprising role you have ever been offered?
No really big surprises. Drag roles, I guess.
14) Have you ever injured yourself onstage?
Not really. Though I nearly got stabbed in the belly and it was my own fault for not paying attention.
15) What show(s) have you done multiple times?
Godspell.
16) Have you ever had an onstage kiss?
No, dammit, and I want one! I thought I was going to get to plant one onmangosteen when I played a series of his love interests in Cabfare For The Common Man, but no dice.
17) What was your scariest moment in a show?
Every time I draw a blank on a line, it's like dying. Seriously, going up on a line has felt like a bullet in the gut. That's why of late I've been focusing mostly on radio theatre, and also making the most out of smaller memorized roles.
18) What is your best show memory?
Philip Glass Buys A Loaf Of Bread was a performance I'm extremely proud of. But most of my happiest show memories were from the green room. :-)
19) What is your worst show memory?
I was in a unbelievably toxic production of Othello. I've never been more unhappy and disgusted in a theatre environment. Ultimately I gave a passable performance but overall the show was a piece of shit and an insult to the Bard. I should have quit, and if I'm ever in a theatre working environment like that again, I will.
20) What is your favorite, or most memorable, brush with Celebrity in a show?
As if I had any!
decarabas over on Facebook:1). What was the first show you ever did?
Not counting little in-class skits in school and Sunday school, the first show with a seated audience and memorized roles was Cinderella in 6th grade. I played the Wicked Stepmother.
2) What was your most recent show?
For acting, it was a PMRP performance at Arisia. For directing, I'm doing a show now for the T@F festival (one I wrote, in fact!) :-)
3) What was your favorite show/role?
Hard to say. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead was very special to me. A few of the experimental performance works back in the 80s also stand out. The best performance of my life was actually at an audition for a role I didn't get.
4) What was your most challenging show/role?
Mistress Quickly was a big challenge, as was Emilia. Those were in Merry Wives and Othello (sorry, I've got HTML fatigue).
5) What is/are the most bizarre show(s) or role(s) you've ever done?
When Bread & Puppet came to Boston and took on local actors, I played a sheaf of wheat and a flying pig.
6) Has anyone ever written a show for you?
No, but I wrote 4 one-woman shows for myself and performed them (using memorization skills that have long since departed from me)
7) Have you ever quit a show to accept a better one?
I've quit a few shows very early on in the rehearsal process because scheduling just didn't work out, but I've never left a director seriously in the lurch. There were a few times when I should have, though.
8) Have you ever completely blown character on stage?
If by that you mean "break character," no. I can pretty much stay in character through anything. I survived choking on water onstage and still stayed in character.
9) What show(s) are you just dying to do?
I would love to play a character who is completely, frothingly insane. Not functionally insane, I mean screaming and kicking and raving. Mad Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre comes to mind, or one of the inmates in Marat/Sade. I would also like to be in The Laramie Project.
10) Have you ever done one of your "dream" shows?
Yes, I got to be in two different productions of Godspell.
11) Who was your favorite director?
Oh, I've had lots of really great directors. They each had their own unique qualities that I really enjoyed and admired.
12) Who was your least favorite director?
I was in a production of Pippin, and the director was a bellowing ass who screamed and bullied, and no one could feel any respect for him. He was just awful. Halfway through the rehearsal period the actor playing the lead saw to it that he was fired. Later the awful director went to jail for embezzling several thousand dollars from the Rochester Gay Men's Chorus.
13) What is the most surprising role you have ever been offered?
No really big surprises. Drag roles, I guess.
14) Have you ever injured yourself onstage?
Not really. Though I nearly got stabbed in the belly and it was my own fault for not paying attention.
15) What show(s) have you done multiple times?
Godspell.
16) Have you ever had an onstage kiss?
No, dammit, and I want one! I thought I was going to get to plant one on
mangosteen when I played a series of his love interests in Cabfare For The Common Man, but no dice. 17) What was your scariest moment in a show?
Every time I draw a blank on a line, it's like dying. Seriously, going up on a line has felt like a bullet in the gut. That's why of late I've been focusing mostly on radio theatre, and also making the most out of smaller memorized roles.
18) What is your best show memory?
Philip Glass Buys A Loaf Of Bread was a performance I'm extremely proud of. But most of my happiest show memories were from the green room. :-)
19) What is your worst show memory?
I was in a unbelievably toxic production of Othello. I've never been more unhappy and disgusted in a theatre environment. Ultimately I gave a passable performance but overall the show was a piece of shit and an insult to the Bard. I should have quit, and if I'm ever in a theatre working environment like that again, I will.
20) What is your favorite, or most memorable, brush with Celebrity in a show?
As if I had any!