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Elizabeth Baron

LaLaTheater@gmail.com

 

PERFORMING - STAGE (Selected)

Off-Broadway

 

GAME SHOW

Tina/Ellen                 

Bleecker Theater - dir. Mark Waldrop

MAYBE BABY, IT'S YOU

Female Lead (US/ Perf.)

(10 characters)
Soho Playhouse - dir. Jeremy Dobrish

 

SECRET HISTORY OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE

Joanne Mitchell               

En Garde Arts - dir. Matthew Wilder

 

SECRET HISTORY OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE

Joanne Mitchell               

En Garde Arts - dir. Matthew Wilder

Regional - AEA Productions

 

PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE
Suzanne / Countess

Clarence Brown Theatre - dir. Elizabeth Craven

DANCE WITH ME

Woman #3

Byrdcliffe Theater - dir. Joseph Megel

RADIUM GIRLS
Actor #2

Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey

- dir. Joseph Megel

HAMLET

Ophelia

Oberlin College & Phoenix Rising Productions

- dir. Toby Robertson

Collaboratively Created Theatre & Non-AEA Productions

 

DANGEROUSLY SAFE

Lead/ Co-Creator

ATLAS Black Box

Univ of CO/ Gemma Wilcox Productions

AGAMEMNON

All roles

Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO

– dir. Elizabeth Baron/ LaLa Theater

Company

 

BUTTERFLIES MEETING THE WINDSHIELD

Mowanna Bungalow

(One-Woman Clown Show)

Boulder Circus Center

- dir. Giovanni Fusetti

w/support of ‘The Geniuses’

THE CHAIR PIECE

Holland
(Solo comedic cabaret)

Various venues & events – USA & UK

INANNA

Narrator #1/Vocal Lead

Convergence Theater Collective, Boulder, CO

- dir. Jeremy Williams

NINA LACUNA
Jalaina Fedorovna Volkova

Nalanda Theatre, Boulder, CO

- dir. Jeremy Williams

LULL
Insomniac (Lead)

Performing Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO

- dir. Shana Cordon

 

PRISCILLA: A ROCK & ROLL
RIDE THROUGH TEENAGE HELL

Jordan (Principal)

Dairy Center

- dir. Trevin Gay/ Octopus League

PEACE’s

Nena
El Centro Su Teatro, Denver, CO

(workshop & reading)

A WRINKLE IN TIME

Meg Wallace

Canyon Theater, Boulder County Library

Octopus League


A PU-PU PLATTER OF LOVE
Mowanna Bungalow

BIFF - Dairy Center

- dir. Giovanni Fusetti/ Octopus League

PERFORMING – FILM (Selected)

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORRUPTION
The Baroness

Buskerfly Productions

- dir. Phillip Van Scotter

BUSKERS BOUNTY
The Baroness

Buskerfly Productions

- dir. Phillip Van Scotter

(**Selection: Beloit International Film Festival,

 Levante International Film Festival)

ALEISTER’S GOODBYE
Djanc

Independent

- dir. Jackson Ward

THE STUBBORN EARTHQUAKE

Scientist

Independent

- dir. Ryan Eggensperger

THE UGLIEST MAN IN THE WORLD

Shelly

Rocket Opera Pictures

- dir. Seth Jacobs

EDUCATION

Advanced Training in Theater Pedagogy

Hélikos: International School of Theater Creation

2009 & 2010 - 2011

Primary Teacher: Giovanni Fusetti

Movement: Normal Taylor

 

MFA, London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) / Naropa University

Lecoq Based Actor-Created Theater

2002 – 2004

Primary Teachers: Amy Russell and Thomas Prattki

BA, Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music

Interdisciplinary Performance Major (Political Contextualization of the Arts)

Political Economy

European Intellectual History

African & African American Cultural & Historical Studies

Music, and Theatre

1992 - 1997

ADDITIONAL TRAINING (Selected)

 

Red Nose Theatre Clown

Giovanni Fusetti

2004 - Present

Apprentice to Giovanni Fusetti

Pedagogic Assistant for intensive, multi-week Theater Clown workshops:

Red Nose: The Actor In Search of the Clown & Clown’s Life

2006 - 2008

Moment Work

Leigh Fondakowski

Tectonic Theater Project

Acting

William Esper Studio for Acting (Meisner Technique)

Milton Katselas, George DiCenzo, Paul Moser,

Caroline Jackson-Smith, Jane Armitage, Michael Early

Dance

Worldanz -Gina Garcia

Alchemy of Movement - Chantal Pierrat

West Side Dance Project (scholarship student)

Steps

Broadway Dance Center

Voice

Kaya Anderson, Katherine Fitzmaurice, Saul Kotzubei,

Ethie Friend, Candace Goetz, Susan Dash

Classically trained singer, Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Martial Arts

Bruno di Loreto Wurms

Sensei McHenry

Wu Tao

Imanou Risselard & Pol Charoy

Aspects

Per Haaland

AWARDS (Selected)

2010 -

Boulder County Arts Alliance

Neodata Endowment Theater Fellowship

(awarded once every three years)

Four Boulder Arts Commission grants

(in support of various theater productions)

2009 -

for Actor in Agamemnon:

Camera's Eye Theater Awards 

Runner up, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role/ Drama

 

2009 -

for Actor in Buskers Bounty:

Levante International Film Festival Selection

2012 -

Beloit Film Festival

 

2019

Director/ Co-Creator in Yay, America!:

Critics’ Choice Award, PortFringe

 

2018

Co-Director in Adam and Eve on a Raft:

Best of Fest, San Francisco Fringe

 

2014

Director/Dramaturg in Magical Mystery Detour:

Best Female Performer, Victoria Fringe

2012

Pick of Fringe, BIFF

 

2011

Director/ Co-Creator in Lovesongs for Poomouse:

Pick of Fringe, BIFF 

 

2008

Director in 52 PickUp:

Pick of Fringe, BIFF 

MFA in Lecoq Based Actor-Created Theater (Details of Masters program)

1st year of Lecoq pedagogy includes: neutral mask, mime, movement studies, ‘le jeu,’ improvisation, larval mask, expressive mask, tréteau, the dynamics of nature & color, bestiary, personnage (physical character creation,) use of objects, ensemble theater creation, critique and analysis, movement of language, dramatic construction in the arts (architecture and the dynamics of space, music and dramatic composition, painting and poetry)

2nd year of Lecoq pedagogy includes: Dramatic storytelling, the world of comedy, movement analysis and applied techniques, Commedia dell’Arte (half-mask,) Chorus, Tragedy, Epic drama and Melodrama, the world of the Mysterious and the Fantastic, Bouffon, the Grotesque, Theater of Objects, Human comedy, Clown, Burlesque, Cabaret, approach to classic and modern texts, ensemble and solo theater creation

Secondary Teachers Year 1

Mask making & Acrobatics – Jonathan Becker Musical collaboration & improvisation – Mark Miller 

Roy Hart Voice Technique – Ethie Friend Trapeze – Nancy Smith / Frequent Fliers

 

Secondary Teachers Year 2

Burlesque & Cabaret - Susana Lastreto Voice – Simon Ratcliffe Acrobatics & Martial Arts – Kenneth Lewis

Butoh and Movement Improvisation – Frances Barbre Clown – Michael Murphy

Comedy of the Absurd - Alan Fairbairn Melodrama & Tragedy - Ole Andersen

 

Additional Workshops during MFA: Wendell Beavers (Naropa University) – Viewpoints; Adele Thompson (STOMP); Carol Mendelsohn (Roy Hart Theatre) – Singing; Kevin Crawford (Roy Hart Theatre Company) – Voice & Classical Text; Marcela Lorca (Guthrie); Colin Gee (Cirque De Soleil); Jin Woo Yoo (Ecole Lecoq)

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