2006 News
OCTOBER
In
mid-October, I shot an episode for the show Psychic
Detectives with Story
House Productions. I played a potential stalker victim
and the ultimate victim's concerned friend. The episode, "Baton
Rouge Serial Killer", will air early next year on Court
TV.
I
played Helen Cooper in the stage version of Night of the
Living Dead for Landless
Theatre. The show ran October 6th-28th at the District
of Columbia Arts Center.
JULY/AUGUST
I played Nurse Ratched in One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest for Firebelly
Productions. The show was directed by Kathi Gollwitzer, and ran July 20th-August 6th at Theatre on the Run in Arlington, VA. See the photo gallery here.
MAY
I
played the lead role of Joy in the indie film Embalming produced by lilquiwi
films. It was directed by Catherine Aselford. The synopsis: "A goth girl [Joy] working as a mortuary technician
is challenged to unearth her own buried memories when she's confronted
by the corpse of an even younger girl who refuses to rest in peace.
Has she discovered a dark, forgotten history harbored deep within her
subconscious, or is the dead girl's story a horror that's too powerful
to ever be forgotten?"
The
weekend of May 5-7th I again took the Director/Writer/Producer/Actor
helm with Cavegirl Productions, to do our fourth short
film, and third DC
48 Hour Film Project. Last year, we made the top 15 and
won Best Locations with our horror short, HATCH.
In 2004, we won Best Mockumentary and were in the top 10 for the 48HFP's
sister competion, the National
Film Challenge, with our film FELT:
Tearing the Fabric of America.
APRIL
April
26th was the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl
accident. On Friday April 21st, National
Public Radio's All
Things Considered aired a piece that incorporated readings
from the amazing, moving book Voices
of Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich. The book is a compilation of
first-hand accounts of that day and what followed from the citizens
of Belarus. I read all of the female accounts for the segment. You can
listen to the piece on the NPR/ATC website at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5355810.
FEBRUARY
On February 12th, Occam's Razor won both First
Runner-Up and Best Original Work at the 2006 Maryland
One-Act Festival at Port
Tobacco Players Theatre in La Plata, MD. I also won an Outstanding
Performance Award for portraying Karla
Faye Tucker. Occam went on to represent Maryland at the Eastern
States Theatre Association Original Works Festival July 21st-23rd in Newark, DE. The play was written
by Paul Buchanan, directed by Barbara
Scheide, and co-starred Kevin
Finkelstein as the fictional reporter Jack Kirby.