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December 2016 Liz writes...

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Wit finished a successful run on November 19, and it's been a tremendous journey.  I've created a whole page here for the amazing reviews (handily labelled "press" in the menu bar up there); Hub had to permanently add more seats to the set-up of the theatre space because we kept selling out and the producers didn't want to turn anyone away.  A straight run of sold-out houses and standing ovations--I'll take it!

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I've also officially completed my MA in Theatre Education at Emerson, as of mid-month.  Hooray!  Accordingly, my online teaching portfolio is now live, and linked in this site's main menu bar.

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The work now enters a lower gear from where it's been for the last 18 months or so, which I need.  I'm still keeping busy:  I'm directing a clump of plays for the One Minute Play Festival, I just finished a set of Christmas caroling gigs downtown (and spent a half day helping a friend record a cool piece of music he's written), and I have some murder mystery work lined up, and a Pazzi Lazzi road show to prepare for, and some other odds and ends.  I'll have some time to concoct other projects and pursue other work, and generally (I hope) get life in order.

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May peace and joy be with you and yours.

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November 2016 Liz writes...

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Wit by Margaret Edson opened last night (as I write this), to a sold-out crowd - ticket sales have been brisk, so please book your seat before it's too late at this link.

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Killian Melloy at Edge Media Network Boston published an interview with me about the show; you can check that out here.  He's erred on the side of generosity about my performance experience, which is mildly embarassing (I have not starred in anything at ART, nor have I worked at ASP), but hooray for extremely kind press coverage!

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September 2016 Liz writes...

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Rehearsals are under way for Wit by Margaret Edson!  It's an honor and a pleasure to be doing this piece with the team Hub Theatre Co. of Boston has put together.  Dear friends all over the place, and a few new faces, too.  We open Nov. 4, and tickets are already selling - click here to book yours (and to see publicity pics from a recent photo shoot). 

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I also spent a silly, delightful evening on Sept. 25 performing a staged reading presented by Don't Tell Lulu Productions, Jason McCool's latest venture.  We gave a spirited rendition of Stage Door by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, at Carrie Nation restaurant/bar, and it was an immersive, zany, really fun night.  Hooray for '30's stage archetypes!

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While doing all that, I've had the tremendous privilege of student teaching at Westford Academy since the end of August.  My supervising teacher, Michael Towers, is a brilliant, inspiring force of nature, and the students amaze me.  I'll be there through the beginning of November (so yes, the students will get to watch me go bald for Wit), and after I finish this semester, my Emerson master's degree work will be complete.

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August 2016 Liz writes...

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What an eventful time it's been!  The nomination I mentioned before? Well, A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes actually WON the Elliot Norton Award for Best Production - Fringe at the awards ceremony on May 23rd.  It was a huge honor and a wonderful night, and I'm very grateful to Boston's critics, who voted to recognize our work, and the greater community, whose members continue to inspire me and welcome me.

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I had the joy of working on two short pieces while also rehearsing Macbeth, both of which have come and gone - I emailed my mailing list about these, but the work has been so intense, and my schedule so overloaded, that I didn't post here about them until...now!  First up was The Hairy Scary, an original musical by Jabari and Liana Asim, music by Joshua Stephen Kartes, and we had a wonderful performance at Boston's Outside the Box Festival on Boston Common on July 17, 2016. Eric Bornstein created masks for me and David Heard and Rose Kanj - what a fascinating process!  I played The Old Crone, a sort of wicked-witch character - lots of fun, and the group working on this piece was extraordinary.  Grateful for every bit of that.

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Next was Bad Hamlet at the Providence Fringe Festival, which just closed last weekend (as I write this - that would be July 26-30, 2016).  More astonishing colleagues, and a chance to finally work on something with director Dan Bourque.  The piece is a mash-up of hghlights from the First Folio and Bad Quarto versions of Hamlet, with competing versions of the characters on stage in dialogue with each other; John Geoffrion wrote it (though he says "assembled").  Fascinating stuff - oh, and I got to be fight captain for the sword fighting (and for my own murder as Claudius), which was a first for me.  John and I will collaborate on Wit this fall - he's directing.

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Macbeth was an intense journey, and I'm grateful to the whole team, but most especially to Kim Carrell as Macbeth.  I sent in an abstract, and was accepted, so I'm happy to announce that I'll be presenting at the Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival Conference in October about the whole process.  My talk is called "Sympathy with the Devil: Playing Lady Macbeth."  Small world department: one of my Murder Mystery Co. colleagues went to this program for undergrad, and gave me a whole slew of tips about the area.  Amazing!

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I'm now in rehearsals as Jaques in As You Like It, directed by Dev Luthra for Merely Players, which is an outgrowth group from the It's A Fiasco fold.  We run August 18-28 in Longfellow Park and Danehy Park in Cambridge, and you should come see it, of course!  Thurs-Sat at 7pm, Sun at 5pm.  Bring something to sit on, and a picnic, and enjoy some tremendous, funny work!

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May 2016 Liz writes...

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Dog Act closed, and I'm already deep in rehearsal for Macbeth, after a quick stop to perform Patrick Gabridge's Santa Doesn't Live Here Anymore in the Boston Theatre Marathon XVIII (May 8).  BTM18 was great fun, and it was a pleasure to see so many friends - and get such a warm response! This was my second year performing in this event, and I hope to keep coming back.  It's a fundraiser for the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund.  I also continue to perform all over New England with The Murder Mystery Co.  Macbeth will open June 9 and run through June 19, and we have a spiffy new graphic with all the info.  There's a fundraising effort underway for the production - please consider contributing if you can.

 

I'm delighted to report that the play I was in this December-January at Apollinaire Theatre, Kate Benson's Obie-winning A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes, has been nominated for an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production by a Fringe Theater.  This was the first production of the piece outside New York and we're all very proud of our work, and gratified (and a little surprised) to be nominated.  The awards ceremony is May 23 and the cast is looking forward to a fun night out with colleagues from all over the city.

 

April, 2016: Liz writes...

 

Dog Act is up and running, and we're getting some terrific responses! Show runs through April 23, so make your plans, book a seat, and come check out this fantastic piece of theatre!  If you're quick, you'll get a chance to meet the playwright when she comes to see it on April 16th.  I've uploaded a new video to Facebook, to whet your appetite - here it is, the whole cast jamming with me on a reprise of "Human Blues."  It's a blast!  Enjoy!

 

In other news, Macbeth starts rehearsals at the end of April, and it's shaping up to be an extraordinary, beautiful show.  I've turned down other projects to do this one, folks, and I'm really excited about getting going with it.

 

On a more personal note, we had a pretty serious house fire; everyone's ok, but if you'd like to contribute to our recovery, the gofundme link is here.

March 2016 - from Liz:

 

Currently rehearsing:  Dog Act by Liz Duffy Adams (no relation, but she agrees that it's an amusing coincidence) for Theatre on Fire at Charlestown Working Theater.  This is a wonderful script!  It's billed as a post-apocalyptic vaudeville dark comedy, with original songs.  I play Zetta, a vaudevillian travelling with her side-kick, Dog, trying to make our way through the world.  Among other things, it's a love-letter to theatre.  Show dates April 1-23, 2016.

 

In other news, and speaking of wonderful scripts, this summer I'll be doing more Shakespeare outdoors, playing Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, with It's A Fiasco Cambridge, June 9-19 (first week in Longfellow Park, second week in Danehy Park; I'll post more info as we get closer, don't worry).  I get to work with dear friends, doing something incredibly challenging.

 

I'm also deeply grateful to be booked for November, when I play Vivian Bearing in Wit with Hub Theatre Co. of Boston (Nov. 4-19 at First Church, Boston). It's a gift to be working with yet another wonderful team that's trusting me with an extraordinary role. I struggle to summarize this piece, so here's what the NY Times had to say about the 2012 Broadway production: "“Wit” gently reminds us of how the seemingly infinite mind divorces itself from the finiteness of the body that sustains it. The industry of thought gets us through life, until life abruptly makes it known that it is disposing of us. Then words — and charts and pictures and poses — fail."

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early 2015:  A short film I was in has been playing festivals around the world and getting praised - "Hero for Hire" by Diane Choi.  Grateful for the experience.

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