Carla Smith, MFA 2020

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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

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

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

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