August 2009: All About Eve

Location: Brandon Fradd Theatre, Whyte Hall

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Description: Join the famed drag legend — not to mention actor, playwright, novelist, and director — Charles Busch in a reading of All About Eve, the classic, Oscar-winning story (who could forget Bette Davis as Margo?)

Charles will share the stage with fellow actors to depict the unforgettable tale of an ingenue as she insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theatre friends.

“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!”

Start Time: 9 PM

Date: 2009-08-15

The Electric Company

My character:

Francine Carruthers
(Ashley Morris) is a power-mad teenager who wants to be the president of The Electric Company. She has the basic letter-throwing skills that members of the Company also possess. Desperate for attention, she often posts vlogs (video blogs) praising her intelligence and superiority.

A little about the show:

In 2009, the power is surging back with the all-new The Electric Company, produced by Sesame Workshop. With a cool cast of characters, amazing literacy superpowers, side-splitting cartoons, and songs that you can’t help dancing along with, this reincarnation of a television classic is sure to make an impact on the newest generation. The Electric Company aims to entertain children between the ages of 6 and 9 while simultaneously teaching four crucial areas of literacy that are challenging for struggling readers:

• Decoding: Children will increase their ability to manipulate sounds in spoken words and map those words to print.
• Vocabulary: Children will expand the amount of words (vocabulary) that they use and understand.
• Comprehension of Connected Text: Children will learn strategies that good readers use to understand connected text (phrases and sentences).
• Motivation: Children will be motivated to read connected text and express themselves using text.

Paper Dolls

I played Isabel in the play Paper Dolls. About the play:

Claire Cunningham loves to dish the dirt – until she gets dirty. With her movie star brother, conniving assistant, and a mysterious stranger, she’s about to rock the pages of the New York tabloids …

Then a nasty bit of news changes everything …

Will Claire’s steamy sex life hit the front page? … Cue the entrance of a mysterious stranger, Isabel, who knows just a little big too much about everyone, and this summer the heat will be in the headlines.

Ugly Betty episode Granny Pants

I played Harmony in the Granny Pants episode of ABC’S Ugly Betty.

According to the IMDB plot summary:

Betty’s high school nemesis Kimmie comes to ask Betty for help getting a job at Mode. Unfortunately for Betty, Daniel has decided that Betty needs an assistant. Trying to cope with the loss of Junior, Daniel seeks solace from an dating service, with surprising results.

Die Mommie Die!

According to Die Mommie Die! author Charles Busch:

Ex-pop singer, Angela Andrews, is trapped in a hateful marriage with film producer Sol Sussman. Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, an out of work TV actor, Tony Parker, Angela murders her husband with the aid of a poisoned suppository.  In a plot that reflects Greek tragedy as well as Hollywood kitsch, Angela’s Elektra-like daughter, Edith, convinces Angela’s emotionally disturbed son, Lance, that they must avenge their father’s death by killing their mother.

I played Edith!