As a child, I wanted to be a dancer until my first ballet recital when I was horrified to learn that all the Rainbow Fairies were costumed and coifed to look exactly the same!
My first real role was as Becky Thatcher in TOM SAWYER’S TREASURE HUNT and since then I have been sick with the theater disease for most of my life.
These are photos from a sampling of roles in stage productions - Becky Thatcher through college, summer stock and professional theaters on both coasts.
Becky Thatcher in TOM SAWYER'S TREASURE HUNT by Charlotte B. Chorpenning - Command Performers - with David Church
Elizaveta in THE JOURNEY OF THE FIFTH HORSE by Ronald Ribman - Brown University
Rosalie in OH, DAD, POOR DAD, MOMMA'S HUNG YOU IN THE CLOSET AND I'M FEELING SO SAD by Arthur Kopit - Trinity College Summer Theatre
Olga in THE THREE SISTERS by Anton Chekov - Brown University - with Sharon Grodin & Peggy Harmon
Geraldine in WHAT THE BUTLER SAW by Joe Orton - Brown Summer Theatre
Yvette in MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN by Bertolt Brecht - Brown University
Raisa Filippovna in THE SUICIDE by Nikolai Erdman - Trinity Rep - the Company (That's Richard Jenkins in the coffin.)
Mary in THE DRUNKARD or THE FALLEN SAVED by William Henry Smith - Weston Playhouse - with Janice Paran, Tim Fort & Tom Turgeon
Joanne in VANITIES by Jack Heifner - Trinity Rep
Southern Comfort in WHISKEY by Terrence McNally - Trinity Rep - with Daniel Von Bargen, Barbara Meek, Robert Black & Peter Gerety
Mrs. Drudge in THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND by Tom Stoppard - Trinity Rep
Regan in KING LEAR by William Shakespeare - Trinity Rep - the Company (I'm dead in the cart.)
SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM by Stephen Sondheim - Trinity Rep
Laurette in ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST by Lillian Hellman - Loeb Summer Theatre - with Louis Turenne
Meg in CRIMES OF THE HEART by Beth Henley - Trinity Rep - with Margaret Marx & Dan Butler
Judith Bliss in HAY FEVER by Noel Coward - Little Fish Theatre - with Kalie Quinones & Michael Irish
Sister in CRANE, MISSISSIPPI by Timothy McNeil - Page 93 - with May Quigley Goodman
Luciana in THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE by Rogers and Hart - Trinity Rep - with Barbara Orson & Nancy Nichols
May in FOOL FOR LOVE by Sam Shepard - Inevitable Productions - with Thor Edgell
Helga ten Dorp in DEATHTRAP by Ira Levin - Little Fish Theatre
Therese Marie in THE LITTLE FLOWER OF EAST ORANGE by Stephen Adly Guirgis - West Coast Premiere/Elephant Theatre Company
Emily Dickinson in THE BELLE OF AMHERST by William Luce - Inevitable Productions
Season poster for the Weston Playhouse Theatre Company - I am the one with her arms outstretched as Molly Sweeney in MOLLY SWEENEY by Brian Friel.
Antionette in A FLEA IN HER EAR by Georges Feydeau - Trinity Rep - with Richard Kavanaugh