Riley Jo Payne, MFA 2020

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Experience Name:
MFA New Visions Festival 2020

Show:
Richard III

Character:
Richard III

Playhouse / Producer:
School of Drama, The New School

Playwright:
William Shakespeare

Director:
Pauls Macs


Show:
The Importance of Being Earnest

Character:
Cecily

Playhouse / Producer:
Stag and Lion Theatre Company

Playwright:
Oscar Wilde

Director:
Joshua Koehn


Experience Name:
MFA New Visions: Directors' Lab

Show:
For Hylas, A Playlist; or, 12 Labors of Guilt, Shame and Love

Character:
Oracle of Delphi

Playhouse / Producer:
School of Drama, The New School

Playwright:
Nigel Semaj Barnes, Calley Anderson

Director:
Nigel Semaj Barnes


Show:
Twelfth Night

Character:
Maria

Playhouse / Producer:
Stag and Lion Theatre Company

Playwright:
William Shakespeare

Director:
Joshua Koehn


Show:
Everyone But Us

Character:
Tiff

Playhouse / Producer:
School of Drama, The New School

Playwright:
Calley Anderson

Director:
Diane Machin


Experience Name:
MFA Shakespeare Adaptations

Show:
10,000 Moor (Adaptation of Titus Andronicus)

Character:
Saturninus, Lucius, Chiron

Playhouse / Producer:
School of Drama, The New School

Playwright:
William Shakespeare, Nigel Semaj

Director:
Nigel Semaj


Experience Name:
MFA Mainstage Production

Show:
Balm in Gilead

Character:
Rust, Darlene

Playhouse / Producer:
School of Drama, The New School

Playwright:
Lanford Wilson

Director:
Raelle Myrick-Hodges

Training

Acting: David Chambers, Peter Jay Fernandez, Scott Whitehurst, Stephen Brown-Fried 

Voice: Susan Cameron, Alba Quezada, Andrea Haring, Patricia Fletcher

Movement: Shannon Stowe, Shelley Wyant, Teva Bjerken, Cynthia Reynolds, Erica Fae, Tom Schall 

On-Camera: Sanjit De Silva, William Cusick

Devising Workshops: Frantic Assembly, Tectonic Theater Project, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Daniel Alexander Jones

Audition Technique Master Class: Lindsay Mendez

Education

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

Skills

Dance: Jazz, Modern, Basic Ballet

Dialect: Southern (TX), RP, Cockney, Southern Irish, Russian, French

Stage Combat: Hand to Hand, Knife

Other: Mix/Belt, Harmonies, Chorale Singing, Ukulele (3 Years), Cartwheel, Round-off

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