Monday, October 24, 2011 at 6:09PM Congratulations to client Sarah Corey, who says:
I booked the show!! Thank you so much for your guidance, skill, and fabulous ear.
The show is In the Book Of … , by John Walch, part of the current season at Alabama Shakespeare Festival. The accent I coached Sarah in is Dari, also known as Afghan Persian (or Afghan Farsi).
Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 11:22AM Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano, directed by Hal Brooks, just finished its run at the Pearl Theatre Company. I’m happy to report that it was well received, as you can see, by
Jason Zinoman, The New York Times
Michael Feingold, The Village Voice
Peter Santilli, Associated Press
Fern Siegel, The Huffington Post
Chris Kompanek TheaterMania
Joel Benjamin, TheatreScene
Sherri Rase, QonStage
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 12:45PM The fourth annual edition of 1st Irish, the first and only festival in the world dedicated to Irish playwrights, concludes with an Awards Ceremony on Monday October 3, 2011, at 7: 00 PM. Acting, directing, and production design awards, plus a special jury prize, will be handed out by the festival’s jury, a panel of five distinguished writers and theatre professionals. The festival’s audience members are choosing the Best Play, by voting online (through Sunday, October 2) on the 1st Irish website.
Coordinated by the New York-based Origin Theatre Company, the 1st Irish Festival features four productions from Ireland and four from America, with six American premieres and one New York premiere.
The list of nominees includes four for Temporal Powers (a New York Times Critic’s Pick): Best actor – Aidan Redmond; Best Director – Jonathan Bank; Best Design; Best Production.
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 12:05PM The leading actors of Temporal Powers, Aidan Redmond and Rosie Benton, together with director Jonathan Bank, interviewed by Leonard Lopate on WNYC, September 30, 2011. Discussion of the play’s language and accents (beginning with a reference to my program note, shown here) starts at about 10:54.
Program Note (click to enlarge)
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 8:24PM Congratulations to client Jenn Colella, who says:
I got that role for the workshop of Sting’s new musical, The Last Ship. They loved the Geordie!!! Thank you again for helping me.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 7:53PM Temporal Powers, by Teresa Deevy, now running at the Mint Theater Company, is a New York Times Critics’ Pick, has extended its run to October 2, 2011, and has garnered overall good press. We also enjoyed a novel honor recently: Ringing the NASDAQ Closing Bell!
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 6:37PM Congratulations to Anna Deavere Smith, Leonard Foglia, Riccardo Hernandez, Dan Ozminkowski, Ryan Rumery, and Phialdephia Theatre Company on their Barrymore nominations for Let Me Down Easy!
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 3:14PM Smith, who conducted more than 300 interviews for the show, portrays 20 characters — doctors, patients and celebrities — using their own words to shape a fluid series of scenes. A phenomenal actress, she performs them verbatim, with the pauses, repetitions, regional accents and unique figures of speech intact.
The many faces of Anna Deavere Smith
… she re-creates every character - black and white, female and male, young and old - verbatim, down to the most common or idiosyncratic verbal and physical tic. The result is pure theatrical gold and something more …
‘Let Me Down Easy’ review: tour de force
Her sensitivity to the quirks of speech … remains dazzling as she shape-shifts from doctors and nurses to cowboys and Buddhist monks.
A revelatory ‘Let Me Down Easy’ at the Berkeley Rep
Her impressions are spectacularly thorough. Nuances … are a strong point, as are the many accents.
‘Let Me Down Easy’ rocks Berkeley
She nails Ann Richards’ Texas accent.
Anna Deavere Smith astonishes in ‘Let Me Down Easy’
Monday, June 13, 2011 at 3:11PM Bad Texan accents can be the kiss of death to the best play, but dialect designer Amy Stoller did her job well. The Southern accents of the entire cast were believable without being distracting or overdone.
Monday, June 6, 2011 at 9:42AM Congratulations to client Dylan Riley Snyder, whose new show, Kickin’ It, debuts June 13th on Disney XD.
