Dear James River Stage Company Artistic Team,
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at Chicago Children's Theatre, I doubled four roles with quick changes across a 40-show daytime touring run, switching character and voice between cues with no slack in the schedule. That kind of fast, exact track work runs through eight years of regional, musical, and young-audience credits. I am an AEA mezzo-soprano with a strong belt from F3 to C6, I sight-read, and I improvise from the full Second City Conservatory ladder, Levels A to E. My dialects and stage combat are drilled to perform on demand: RP, Cockney, and General Southern in the room, and SAFD Actor Combatant work in unarmed, rapier and dagger, and broadsword.
Two recent credits show the text and the music your season asks for. I played Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, carrying the lead comic role through a 22-show mainstage run and performing verse and improvised crowd-work nightly to a 500-seat house. As Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at Marriott Theatre, I carried the lead vocal track in the round and sustained the Cockney to Received Pronunciation transition across a 10-week run. I am also a reliable cover: on Les Miserables at Paramount Theatre in Aurora, I went on for the Fantine track twice with one rehearsal's notice.
For your season I can send current audition material across a verse piece and a song, and put you in touch with directors I have worked under, including Braden Abraham from Three Sisters at Writers Theatre and Tim Ocel from Proof at American Players Theatre. I read on short notice and arrive with whatever sides you set already prepared. My SAFD Actor Combatant card and BFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul sit at the top of my resume if you want to confirm them.