• Carla Smith, MFA 2020

  • Carla Smith
    Area of Study Acting
    Height 5'8"
    Hair Color Dark Brown
    Eye Color Brown
    Voice A3-A5
    Pronouns She/Her
    Email [email protected]
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    Experience Name: MFA Mainstage Production
    Show: Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist
    Character: Mrs. Sowerberry, Inmate 2, Bystander, Servant
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Playwright: Neil Bartlett
    Director: Melissa Maxwell

    Experience Name: MFA Shakespeare Adaptations
    Show: Titus Andronicus
    Character: Lavinia, Aaron
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Playwright: William Shakespeare, Nigel Semaj Barnes
    Director: Nigel Semaj Barnes

    Experience Name: MFA Mainstage Production
    Show: Balm in Gilead
    Character: Quartet, Franny, Darlene
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Playwright: Lanford Wilson
    Director: Raelle Myrick-Hodges

    Experience Name: Krymov Residency
    Show: The Sound of the Broken String
    Character: Mrs. Gibbs, Ensemble
    Playhouse / Producer: School of Drama, The New School
    Playwright: Dmitry Krymov
    Director: Dmitry Krymov

    Experience Name: Czech Project
    Show: Pankrac '45
    Character: Karola Frank
    Playhouse / Producer: Czech Center and Bohemian National Hall
    Director: Stephen Brown-Fried

    Experience Name: Irene Ryan Award Nominee for the Kennedy Center American College Theater
    Show: In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play
    Character: Elizabeth
    Playhouse / Producer: University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Playwright: Sarah Ruhl
    Director: Jack Cannon

    Education

     

    MFA Acting, School of Drama, College of Performing Arts, The New School

    University of Alabama At Birmingham,  Theatre, B.A., Pre-Professional Performance Concentration (April 2016)

     

    Skills

    Makeup Artistry/Light Cosmetology, Childcare, Driver's License (Automatic), Basic Sewing Skills

    Training

     

    Acting: Kathy Rossetter (Contemporary Technique), Peter Jay Fernandez (Scene Study), Scott Whitehurst (Shakespeare), Stephen Brown-Fried (Shakespeare)

    On Camera: Sanjit De Silva, William Cusick

    Dance: Shannon Stowe

    Alexander: Teva Bjerken, Cynthia Reynolds

    Linklater/Vocal Production: Alba Quezada, Andrea Haring

    Grotowski: Erica Fae

    Dialects: Patricia Fletcher

    Neutral American Speech: Susan Cameron

    Neutral/Character Mask: Shelley Wyant

    Clown Technique: Jean E. Taylor

    Script Analysis: David Chambers 

    Stage Combat: Thomas Schall

     

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