Gender

Female

Member's contact info (email and phone or agent):

(617) 398-7464 ladysong5@gmail.com

Member's age range:

66-70, 71-75, 76-80, Casting Director/Producer/Film Maker

Member's Affiliations:

SAG-AFTRA

Member's PHYSICAL TRAITS (use format on the "Before Applying" page)

PHYSICAL TRAITS: Ethnicity: Caucasian Height: 5'3" Eyes: Hazel; Hair length: Long Hair Color: Salt & Pepper Dress: 7 Waist: 26 Shoe: 6, 6.5, 7 Bust: 35 Hips: 38 Body Markings: None Build or Body Style: Slight Special Wardrobe: Victorian, Civil War, 80's, 90's 50's, 60's. 70's, current upscale and casual, fantastical characters, peasant Other: Have a slight mobility issues; can walk short distances unaided, use a cane outdoors, a Voyager Walking Scooter for long distances and shopping (see photos)

Portrayable & believable accents or dialects (e.g. Southern, Chinese, Spanish, German, Boston, etc.):

Standard American accent; Victorian upper class; southern and mid-western accents; Eastern European accents. Theatrical projection; conversational for film and interviews; emcee.

Member's Performance Skills:

Host, Improvisation, Singer - Alto, Singer - Soprano, Singer - Tenor, Teleprompter, Voices-characters, Whistler

Recent noteworthy acting experience (use the format on the Before Applying page):

FILM & TV: Island Zero, Ruth The Last Poker Game, The Woman Hunting Game, The Woman Ida's 85th Birthday Party, Ida, Olive Kitteridge, Mrs. Merriman, HBO Glass, A Love Story, in production, Lillian American Templars, ATLLC, Adelaide Yarborough Spirit of Salem, Van Ness Creative, Bessie Monroe I Fell Silent, Omnes Productions. Grandmother (Lead) Salem: Unmasking the Devil, National Geographic Channel, Rebecca Nurse Training Video, Boston Medical Communications, Mrs. Fusco (severe Hypertension) Cambridge Honda, Commercial, Sound & Vision Media, Edna At Our Age, Creative Media, Doris Primal Fear, Northern Lights Productions, Praying Woman Twelve, "September", Joan Meister, Dir., Featured Cameo Training videos, Beth Israel Hospital Reynolds Project. Mama Maria Mysterious Journeys, Authentic Entertainment for The Travel Channel, Rebecca Nurse Exorcism, Engel Entertainment, History Channel, Georgia Manukas, Director, Grandmother Theatre: Be Jubilant My Feet, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Principal Singer Vasilisa The Beautiful, New England Russian Theatre Festival Director A Graetz; Nana Lead The Entertainer, Playwrights' Platform Maxine Sailors' Lives and Sailors' Wives Mary Carpenter, Mary Kearney, Lucy German Consent, Bay Colony Productions Defense Lawyer Mantangler, Workshop Production Nurse The Women by Claire Booth Luce; Directed by Marianne Phinney Mrs. Morehead Heroic & Outrageous Women Solo Performance Women, Boston & the Songs That Were So Dear Solo Performance Tidebook by Dillon Bustin Created the role of Nancy Luce Performances in Boston, Plymouth, MA and on Martha's Vineyard. Playwrights Quadrangle weekend of Short Plays The Test by Paul Kahn Principal Role: Mrs. Nash The Woman with No Nose by Joe Byers Principal Role: Mrs. Veneer Herring Run ArtsFest; Searching Paradise, by Yale Wong, Directed by Jane O'Reilly Female Lead, Lillian Insomnia, by Pat Gabridge, directed by Jane Caplan Female Lead, Mary Other: Potter Road School After School Theatre programs Alice's Adventures Writer, Director Haunted City, Salem, MA: My Three Poppets, Witch House Story Teller Music Theatre: **-*-*-*-*-*-** The Proper Ladies **-*-*-*-*-*-** Principal Singer, Artistic Director Songs and parlor ballads of the nineteenth century performed in a-cappella arrangements by an outstanding duo. Appearances available on request. Festival of Light & Song Creator, Artistic Director, Principal Singer Created and directed a fully staged Winter Holiday Fantasy/musical production featuring a cast of up to 30 singers and actors. Both children and adults performed in this production that featured audience participation, acappella song, fantastical creatures and exciting and original lighting effects. A Midwinter Feast - Radio Broadcast Creator, Director, Principal Singer, Narrator National Broadcast -- 1991 Anabel & Wild Rose - A-cappella ensemble that performed music from many cultures in the U.S. and Europe. The Bawdy Ladies Soloist, co-creator Laduvane Principal Singer, Director A women's ensemble that performed traditional a-cappella song from Eastern Europe and the Balkan countries.

Training or acting classes (class name, teacher & where):

Performance techniques, Eloise Ristad, private classes Acting, Ted Kasanoff, Boston University Acting, Lloyd Richards, Boston University Commercials, Tom Kemp, C P Casting On Camera, Peter Kelley, C P Casting Acting Coach, Peter Kelley, C P Casting On Camera, Lau Lapides, Lau Lapides Studio Auditioning, Angela Peri, Boston Casting

Other non-acting related work, hobbies or charities (not skills) in which this actor is involved (1 or 2 word descriptions):

Voice Teacher: Private lessons, classes and workshops for non-singers and beginning to advanced singers in Vocal Techniques; Bel Canto, Balkan and Folk vocal styles, Ensemble Techniques and Harmony Improvisation. These workshops have been presented for organizations and festivals throughout the United States and Canada including The School at the Music Emporium, Cambridge, MA; New England Conservatory of Music; Goddard College; The University of Wisconsin; McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA.; the Vancouver Folk Festival; The Eisteddfod and the Flower Carol Dulcimer Festival. Currently teaching at Lau Lapides Studio in Wellesley. Judge for the Massachusetts High School Drama Guild competition. Awesome song leader; I know how to get people to sing! At The Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Created and taught the perennially popular class Song for Non Singers as well as Basic Vocal Techniques, Extend Your Voice, Rounds, Drones & Chords, Performance Techniques and The Happy Birthday Seminar. Hobbies include plants and gardening and photography. Fulbright Scholar 1986-87: researched Vocal techniques in Bulgaria; informal work in France and Yugoslavia Research material for Proper Ladies Programmes; write scripts. Other Interests: Extensive Costume Collection, Cook, Garden, Cats, Travel, Photography, Computer Publications and Databases, Create Bead Jewelry; folk and traditional song. Languages: Speak: Bulgarian, French. Sing in over twenty languages and dialects including Bulgarian, French, Russian, Ladino, Hebrew, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Yiddish, Spanish and Latin.