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Understudy: Sara in Confederates*; Great Aunt Tina, Scylla, Calypso, Alsendra Sabine, Circe, Carib’diss, Benevolence Nausicca Sabine and Ensemble in black odyssey*
(*originally scheduled for 2020)
In one season at OSF: Cindy Watkins/Dynamite and Ensemble/Chorus in Hairspray.
Other theatres: Judy in Jump (staged reading), Grace in An Octoroon (Chautauqua Theater Company); Marie in Marie and Rosetta (Detroit Public Theatre); Athena in Argonautica, Janeece in Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine (premiere), Marie in Barbeque, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Merriman in The Importance of Being Earnest, local commercials (Pennsylvania State University); Medea in Medea, Beatrice in Casket Sharp, Savoy Sloan in Somebody Called, Emmaretta in Hair (Texas State University).
International: Randi in Double Think (new work/premiere, The National Arts Festival Grahamstown, South Africa/Pennsylvania State University).
Education: MFA, Acting, Pennsylvania State University; BFA, Acting, Texas State University; study abroad at the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe and the RSC (UK).
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