curriculum vitae

SINGING, THEATRE & VOICE-OVER WORK

• Mosenberg SommerMusikFest 2005. Taught "linguacrobatics" workshop and gave concert with Rudiger Oppermann.
• The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe adapted from Stephen Berkoff's dramatization, Paris, France (Theatre Vingtieme)  role: Madelaine Usher
• Other collaborations with composer of the above, Mark Deutsch, inventor of the Bazantar. Experimental Jazz and live poetry performances in St. Louis, San Francisco and Paris
• Klangwelten 2002 Music Festival    Performed with group of musicians from Uganda, Mongolia, Germany, India. Toured as vocal soloist at concert halls, opera houses, theatres, jazz clubs and cathedrals throughout Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg – 23 shows.
• Vocalist/Performer - with Rob Brezny & Sacred Uproar at Burning Man.
• Vocalist - Improvisation with Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra
• Voice-over narration, poetry  Traveling Light  Suzie Landau, Van Morrison Project – Palomar Pictures/VH1, Los Angeles      
• Voice-over “Valley girl”    Levi’s Boot-cut jeans radio commercial
• Vocalist, Librettist  Peruvian National Ballet with Gary Palmer Dancers, San Jose Performing Arts Centre           
• Vocalist, Lyricist for electronic music composers Chris Halaby & Marc Ream
• Backing Vocals Clodhopper: Red's Recovery Room an alt-country band led by Danny Johnston from American Music Club and side project of Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament.
• Lead Vocalist with group Fiend later Shimmer, Atlantic Records (unlreleased)
• Vocals for composer Frank Garvey's Deus Machina, recorded 5 CDs and performed at Omnicircus in San Francisco
• Vocalist, Lyrics, Performer Motoral Pagewriter promotional mini-rock opera
• Lead Vocalist with signed indie band Aether. Album: The Smoke of Vanished Kisses.  Remix with Miss T reached  No. 8 Billboard Club Play Charts
• Vocal Soloist with George Coates Performance Works
• Lead Vocalist with signed indie band Lil Tiger, TK Records/Capital, with Tim Mooney from American Music Club, Michael Belfer of The Sleepers and Black Lab, Money Mark from the Beastie Boys.

Bhagavad-Gita: the War Within, New York (Theatre for the New City); San Francisco (SOMAR Cultural Centre), Prague (Festival of Light), New York (Theatre for the New City) dual role: Krishna and the Charioteer . An Elbows Akimbo production.

O Flame of Living Love, San Francisco, Fort Mason Theatre, role: St. Teresa of Avila     This Elbows Akimbo production received grants and/or other support from Zellerbach, Hotel Tax, and Intersection for the Arts Foundations

The Tempest: A Radical Deconstruction, San Francisco. An Elbows Akimbo production. Intersection for the Arts,  Footworks Dance and The Office. Role: Ariel

Actual Sho a production of George Coates Performance WorksWashington D.C. :Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts; New York, Pepsico Festival of Firsts; Stuttgart,Theatre der Welt festival, Wroclaw: International Open Theatre; Belgrade: BITEF; San Francisco: Palace of Fine Arts, Herbst Theatre.Berkeley: Zellerbach Auditorium, Role: Vocal & Movement Soloist & ensemble player (nameless characters)

Asylum,  San Francisco, The Lab Theatre. An Elbows Akimbo production. Role: Deirdre of the Sorrows

Enter the World of Beatrice , San Francisco, The Lab Theatre. An Elbows Akimbo production. Role: Saint Beatrice, Narrator/Troubador, Dancer     

Endangered Species, Theatre Artaud (SF)  Lynn Hershmann, San Francisco Ballet and Elbows Akimbo.                 

OTHER LIVE PERFORMANCE

Digital Be-In 13 Peformed poetry with digital animation by Spot Draves and electronic score, "The Illuminatrix"  

The Tower    Written on 9/11, this satirical political rant against imperialism and media spin has been performed to great acclaim nationally within the US. Book launch for War on Freedom, Green Century Institute(SF);  Showing of film Uncovered: The Truth About Iraq, 9/11 Truth Commission at Infinite Chaos (SF);  Mass Amalgam (Saint Louis) with Mark Deutsch                    

VIDEO PERFORMANCES

Micro-Theatre   “In Ruins, Again” collected in this compilation of solo performance pieces   Earwax Productions    

"Seeing is Believing" - a Lynn Hershman art video production.                                                

FILM SOUNDTRACKS:

Features: Hanging Garden    Song: Half-Light (from Aether CD) Canada, Award Winner – Best Canadian Film of the Year (1997)

Shorts: The Rapture Vocal soundtrack Screened at New York Film Festival USA

Requiem                   Vocal plus instrumentals, USA , BANFF winner                                                         

 EDUCATION

BA in Experimental & Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State University.  Dean:  August Coppoloa

MLA in New Cosmology (ecology, spirituality, science) from Naropa Institute of Oakland Dean:  Matthew Fox

Studied movement, mime and mask making under Leonard Pitt (Etienne De Cru), solo performance under Nina Wise and Lynn Hershmann, acting/political theatre under RG Davis, acting Chris Hampton, African-Haitian dance and folklore under Blanche Brown, Albirda Rose, Alicia Pierce.  Voice strengthening under Gary Catona, Kundalini Sound Yoga under Russill Paul. Ritual and theatre under Louisa Teish,  Surrealist art under Whitney Chadwick, History of the Avant-Garde under Ellen Zweig