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Online Actor Résumé |
Printable Actor Résumé |
Online Writer Résumé |
Printable Writer Résumé |
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ACTOR RÉSUMÉ |
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STAGE |
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Role |
Play |
Theatre |
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Margaret Fuller |
Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller
Original solo drama |
Burbage Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
13th St. Repertory Theatre, NYC
Royal Scots Theater, Edinburgh, Scotland
Tour/Great Plains Chautauqua Society |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Susan B. Anthony and
Matilda Joslyn Gage |
Winter Wheat
Original solo drama |
Tour/NY, NJ, VA, MD, CA, OR, NC, SC and TN |
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Mary Haskel, lead |
Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) |
Washington Square Theatre/NYC |
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Medea, older woman lead |
Paradox |
13th St. Repertory Theatre Co./NYC |
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Xanthippe, a solo lead (wife of Socrates) |
Xanthippe! |
New York colleges |
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The Wife, a solo lead |
The Yellow Wallpaper
Original adaptation of the short story |
New York & Utah colleges |
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Frances Wright,
Angelina Grimke,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Susan B. Anthony and others |
Roots of Rebellion
Original solo docu-drama |
New York colleges |
Edna St. Vincent Millay, a solo lead
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Edna St. Vincent Millay Reading
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Maine colleges |
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TV/FILM/RADIO |
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Judge Duheny, featured guest star |
Trial By Jury with Raymond Burr |
Nationally Syndicated TV courtroom drama |
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Margaret Fuller, solo lead |
Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller |
BBC/Scotland
Cambridge Forum, MA
Nationally distributed PBS |
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All roles (see stage credits) |
Roots of Rebellion |
WBAI/New York and colleges |
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GRANTS |
The Margaret Fuller Award, Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation
The Fund for Unitarian Universalism
New York State Council on the Arts; New York Foundation for the Arts
National Endowment on the Humanities (The Great Plains Chautauqua
Society)
Humanities Councils in NY, MA, ME, PA, WI
Maine Women Writer's Collection
Wantagh Cultural Arts Program/Nassau
County Office of Cultural Development |
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HONORS |
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See below under Writer’s Resume. |
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TRAINING AND EDUCATION |
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Lee Strasberg; Herbert Berghoff; The American Academy of Dramatic
Arts;
N.Y. University Writing Center; Lewis & Clark College, Portland,
Oregon |
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SPECIAL SKILLS/ADDITIONAL INFO |
Playwright/Author (see Writer’s Resume);
Conference Keynoter; Researcher, 19th century and women’s studies.
Member of The Dramatists Guild; The Actors Studio P/D Unit; American
Renaissance Theater
Licensed driver. Swimmer. Child model: Wonder Bread; Department
store Model.
Mother: 5 children. |
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Height: 5' 4" • Weight: 160 lbs. • Eyes:
Blue/Grey • Hair: Light Brown |
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AUTHOR RÉSUMÉ |
Featured in Feminists Who Changed America – 1963-1975
– new
biographical directory.
University of Illinois Press; Barbara J. Love. editor; Foreword by
Nancy F. Cott |
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PLAYS |
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A Medley for Margaret Fuller – Dramatically staged
presentation with 8 actors as Margaret Fuller, a celebration of The
Margaret Fuller 2010 Bicentennial |
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Celebration, CUNY Graduate Center,
New York. |
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Numb Is A Freezing Point – 2-act drama, unoptioned.
Explores issues concerning caregiving. |
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Readings: The Actor’s Studio, The 42nd Street Workshop. |
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Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller – Solo drama based on
Fuller's journals, letters, articles and books. |
2 years in repertory at The 13th Street Theatre, New York City.
10 weeks at The Burbage Theatre, Los Angeles.
Tours in theatres, colleges, libraries, and conference sites
throughout United States, Mexico, Hong Kong, Edinburgh Fringe
Festival, receiving critical acclaim. Toured with The Great Plains
Chautauqua Society. Five Grants (See below). Shown on BBC in
Edinburgh, Scotland, Cambridge Forum and Cambridge TV in
Massachusetts, and recorded on Nebraska radio. |
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O Excellent Friend! – Based on letters and writings of
Margaret Fuller & Ralph Waldo Emerson. |
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Produced: Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, Brunswick, Maine. |
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Staged Readings: Pen and Brush,
Inc.; Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble's "Word/Play" Festival,
New York. |
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Gotta Learn the Rule – A Hell’s Kitchen 18 year-old Italian gang member
who must chose between his 2 week-old son and going to war. |
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Produced at The Producer’s Club, New York City. |
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Look Who’s On Third! – Docudrama, history, issues and
attitudes of women in sports, over 30 characters. |
Currently featured online for sale for public performance at Women’s
Sports Foundation website.
Produced at The Community Church of New York & Garden City UU
Church, New York. |
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Roots of Rebellion – Docudrama, about first American
women to speak on public platforms. |
Featured on WBAI; Francis Tavern Museum in New York; Unitarian
Universalist General Assembly in Quebec, Canada.
Toured Long Island colleges. |
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Stones Turned - Six wise, elderly women tell forgotten
stories of violence and hate that occurred in ancient Rome. |
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Produced at New York Fringe Festival. |
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Sliding Home! – Docudrama, current issues about women
in sports, over 60 characters. |
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Produced at The Community Church of New York. |
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Flutterby - 2-act drama, a work-in-progress. Based on
the life of Florine Stettheimer and family and friends during
America’s
first avant guard, 1915 – 1940. |
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Readings: American Renaissance
Theater; 42nd St. Workshop. |
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BOOKS
[click to order] |
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How I Got to Harvard, Off and On Stage with Margaret Fuller
– Humorous and outrageous adventures in staging a solo drama on
Margaret Fuller. |
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Outrageous Questions, Legacy of Bronson Alcott and America's
One-Room Schools – Compares Alcott's innovative teaching with
traditional methods; challenges readers to answer same questions
Alcott asked students in 1836. |
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Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller – Biography of Fuller
and Ralph Waldo Emerson and their Transcendental Circle of Friends.
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The Wit and Wisdom of Margaret Fuller Ossoli – Quotes
and excerpts from Fuller’s writings. |
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Why Margaret Fuller Ossoli Is Forgotten – A True
Account, typical of how famous women are left out of history. |
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All above published by Golden Heritage Press, Inc. |
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Discovery, Adventure and guidebooks for adult
leaders, published by Camp Fire Girls, Inc. |
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ARTICLES AND ADDRESSES |
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Women's Themes in Plays Today, UU Woman's Association,
New York |
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Emerson’s Circle of Women, The Journal of Unitarian Universalist History. |
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I, Margaret Fuller, UUWF Triennial; Delta Kappa Gamma
Keynote Address, NY State Convention. |
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Quips, Gibes, Excoriations, Stones, and Mud that Fuel the
Superiority of Margaret Fuller, Pen and Brush. |
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Bringing Margaret Fuller to the Public, American
Literature Assn. |
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The Geniuses of the Dial Magazine, Small Press
Newsletter. |
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The Grassroots Experience, Hofstra University, Long
Island, NY |
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Life of Women in the 19th Century, Swedenborg Library,
Boston and New York. |
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Italian Letters of Margaret Fuller Ossoli,
American-Italian Historical Assn. Conf., Oneonta, NY. |
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, Small Press Newsletter. |
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Mankind Beats with One Great Heart, The Great Plains
Chautauqua Companion Reader. |
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I Shall Never Reach The Shore, Fire Island Light. |
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Risking the Edinburgh Fringe, Woman In Performance
Journal. |
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Private Life of Margaret Fuller, American Historical
Association Symposium. |
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GRANTS |
The Margaret Fuller Award, Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation
The Fund for Unitarian Universalism
National Endowment for the Humanities/North Dakota Humanities
New York Foundation for the Arts
Councils on the Humanities in NY, MA, ME, PA, WI
Wantagh Cultural Arts Program/Nassau County Office of Cultural
Development, Long Island, NY
Maine Women Writer's Collection |
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AWARDS |
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1st prize, Playwrights Contest, Pen and Brush, Inc. – O
Excellent Friend! |
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1st prize, Non-Fiction Contest, Pen and Brush, Inc. – Private
Life of Margaret Fuller |
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2nd prize, Non-Fiction Contest, Pen and Brush, Inc. – Quips,
Gibes, Excoriations, Stones, and Mud that Fuel the
Superiority of Margaret Fuller |
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Finalist, CollaborAction Playwright’s Contest,
Chicago, IL –
Gotta Learn the Rule |
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Distinguished Alumni Award – Lewis & Clark College |
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Honorary Black Belt Award for Woman's Achievement (first woman
recipient), Shorin-Ryu Karate-Do Association, Naha, Okinawa |
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EDUCATION |
New York University Writing Center; Lewis & Clark College, Portland,
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Lee Strasberg; Herbert Berghoff; The American Academy of Dramatic
Arts, New York, NY |
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MEMBERSHIPS |
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The Dramatists Guild; Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit; The
League of Professional Theatre Women. |
