Music Together®
A life-long advocate for music and performing arts education, I became a registered Music Together teacher in 2010. Since arriving in LA, I have joined the teaching staff at Sunshine Music and Dragonfly DuLou.
Improv for Kids!
Beginning this Fall, I will be offering improv classes to children, ages 6-11yrs at Dragonfly DuLou. Improv requires only an active imagination to get started. Children in their limitless creative potential are natural improvisers.
Tiny Little Lungs
Opera and improv collide in this tenacious two-woman show, starring myself and Jaime Church, assisted by Adam Brooks on keys. With every show, we create a fully-improvised musical extravaganza inspired by audience input. Tiny Little Lungs has performed at ImprovBoston, Bastards Inc. and The Tribe Theater.
ImprovBoston Instructor
In addition to performing improv, I also teach improv to adults and children both through ImprovBoston‘s workshops, and in association with Young Audiences, a national program that brings professional performance arts educators into public schools. There is simply no better experience than fostering someone’s discovery of improv.
ImprovBoston Mainstage (Extension Cast)
ImprovBoston Mainstage is the ever-evolving show that is the cornerstone of ImprovBoston. An elite cast of Boston’s best improvisers, we create a show that blends short- and long-form improv and fearlessly embraces audience input and participation. I’ve performed with the Mainstage for three years during summers and as part of their extension cast. Awarded “Best of” comedy clubs in the Boston Phoenix, The Weekly Dig, and the Improper Bostonian several years running.
Marjean
For two years I performed with Marjean, a sassy crew of seven men and women and ImprovBoston’s longest running Harold Team. Marjean performs regularly on our home turf and abroad at festivals such as the Del Close Marathon and Providence Improv Fest.
48 Hour Film Project Boston
I’ve had the pleasure of working with two 48 Hour Film Project teams in the last two years — in 2009, as an actor in “Cyrano de Quinzani,” and in 2010, as a producer, contributing writer, and actor in “For a Few Flowers More,” which won the distinctions of “Best Film,” “Best Ensemble Acting,” and several other awards. You can see me in these short films on the media page.
Longy Recital, 2010
Hosted by Longy School of Music, I produced and performed a concert celebrating the work of 20th Century American Composers, spanning the roaring 20s to the excessive 80s. Accompanied by William Merrill on piano, my program featured the songs of Bowles, Gershwin, Weill, & Bolcom. You can hear highlights from this recital on the media page and view the full program here.
2nd Annual Women in Comedy Festival
I performed in the cast of Maude, a select team of women improvisers from ImprovBoston’s Harold Night, at this festival headlined by Maria Bamford and Jackie Kashian, and featuring LA’s All Girl Revue.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
Bad Habit Productions, an up-and-coming theatre ensemble in Boston, hired me to record vocals for the incidental music in their 2009 production of this quirky Tom Stoppard masterpiece, directed by Steve Kleinedler.
ImprovBoston Family Show
As a founding member of ImprovBoston’s Family Show, I entertained audiences of all ages with a blend of short- and long-form improv, musical improv, interactive storytelling, and dynamic audience participation. The Family Show continues to sell out houses Saturdays at ImprovBoston, and was awarded the Nickelodeon “Parents’ Pick” Award in 2009.
IB Family Show To Go
In 2007, the IB Family Show released Family Show To Go, a compilation of original children’s songs, inspired by content from our improvised shows. All songs written and performed by myself and fellow Family Show Cast members, as well as IB’s Musical Director extraordinaire, Adam Brooks. (Available for download on iTunes.)
Brahms/Ravel Recital
In 2007, I joined forces with collaborative artist Chris Pouliot to perform Brahms’ Zigeunerlieder and Ravel’s Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques. Both of these song cycles had been at the top of my “to sing” list and so I jumped at the chance to perform them in concert and share the bill with bass-baritone Michael Pelletier who sang the Songs of Travel (Vaughan Williams).
The Wasteland Comedy Hour with T.S. Eliot!
The Wasteland Comedy Hour was a live happening, a multimedia sketch/variety show that ran Fridays in Nov/Dec 2007, in ImprovBoston’s showcase slot. We took four months to produce seven unique, entirely scripted shows. Whether I was working as a writer, performer, the show’s music director, or all three simultaneously, The Wasteland was the most rigorous and rewarding project of my comedy career to date.
Ladley & Craig
An unorthodox musical theater piece, Ladley & Craig combined improvised acting with pre-written musical theater songs. The meaning of these scripted songs changed each time we improvised new dramatic context or explored them through a different character’s the point of view. I created and played the character of Audrey Glick, a music theater mogul’s daughter, while singing and improvising my way through twenty original songs from three fictional musicals.
Gorefest IV: Gross Encounters of the Nerd Kind
I played Peggy Ann Sue, the nerdy ingénue, in the fourth installment of this Halloween tradition — an original, gory, hilarious musical created every year by ImprovBoston. If only all my live singing was accompanied by buckets of fake blood and gore!
Laugh Track
Laugh Track was multimedia comedy that created a hilarious, behind-the-scenes look at the world of sitcoms. Each weekly episode was conceived, taped and edited on the fly, in front of a live audience. I created and played the character of Kara Fraser, a saucy Australian actress who played “Susan” in our fictional Friends-esque sitcom Surviving Each Other. Wielding an Aussie accent & vocabulary was incredibly fun and I was thrilled to learn that audience members were convinced that I was actually from Oz.