Performance Art
“Woman is God to Woman: a ritual mas” was a solo work I created & performed in December 2018. This site-specific masquerade procession and ritual theater performance traveled from Oakland to San Francisco, CA, incorporating live original music, poetry, and improvised movement. The work explored racialized stereotypes and tropes of the “mad mulatto” woman, inspired by the mixed-race character of Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre. This piece was commissioned by Jess Curtis/Gravity for their Pop Up Performance series.
Photo credit: Alley Wilde
Vertical Vocalist with BANDALOOP
In 2021, I joined BANDALOOP as a featured vocalist, writer, and performer in their two-year, internationally touring production, LOOM:FIELD. This multimedia show is about the devastating environmental destruction of the fast fashion industry and the power of cloth, thread and clothes in our lives. I wrote and performed original poetry, both in the air and on the ground, researching to create personalized texts for each production. I also co-wrote songs with music director Ben Judovalkis which were incorporated into performances. I performed as a vocalist and theater artist, and I trained in aerial/vertical dance to sing, perform, and dance on buildings. In addition to LOOM:FIELD, I performed in an original BANDALOOP commission presented at Yale University in October 2022, which I co-directed with Artistic Director, Melecio Estrella. I’ve performed in several projects with the company to date, including site-specific productions in Denver, CO; Oakland, CA; Lehigh, PA; Santiago, Chile; Atlanta, GA; Biddeford, ME; Gyor, Hungary, and the Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, to name a few.
Selected Theatrical Performances
I’ve worked as a professional actor in productions at several regional theaters in the Bay Area, including Crowded Fire Theatre, Brava Theater, Theatre Rhinoceros, and Berkeley Repertory Theater’s Groundfloor residency series. I’ve also performed at internationally lauded institutions such as the Yale School of Drama and Trinidad Theatre Workshop. Below is a selection of theatrical roles I have performed over the years.
Please see my CV for a full list of my performances as a professional actor.
"Edit Annie" by Mary Glen Fredrick (2023) at Crowded Fire Theatre in San Francisco, CA.
"Edit Annie" by Mary Glen Fredrick (2023) at Crowded Fire Theatre in San Francisco, CA.
"Edit Annie" by Mary Glen Fredrick (2023) at Crowded Fire Theatre in San Francisco, CA.
"Edit Annie" by Mary Glen Fredrick (2023) at Crowded Fire Theatre in San Francisco, CA.
"Edit Annie" by Mary Glen Fredrick (2023) at Crowded Fire Theatre in San Francisco, CA.
"When Did Your Hands Become A Weapon?"(2018) at Brava Theater in San Francisco, CA. Written by company members of The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women.
"When Did Your Hands Become A Weapon?"(2018) at Brava Theater in San Francisco, CA. Written by company members of The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women.
"When Did Your Hands Become A Weapon?"(2018) at Brava Theater in San Francisco, CA. Written by company members of The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women.
"When Did Your Hands Become A Weapon?"(2018) at Brava Theater in San Francisco, CA. Written by company members of The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women.
"When Did Your Hands Become A Weapon?"(2018) at Brava Theater in San Francisco, CA. Written by company members of The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women.
"When Did Your Hands Become A Weapon?"(2018) at Brava Theater in San Francisco, CA. Written by company members of The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women.
"When Did Your Hands Become A Weapon?"(2018) at Brava Theater in San Francisco, CA. Written by company members of The Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women.
"37" by Nick Mwaluko, produced by the Playwright's Foundation for their 2017 Flash Plays Festival at Dennis Gallagher Arts Pavilion in San Francisco, CA.
"37" by Nick Mwaluko, produced by the Playwright's Foundation for their 2017 Flash Plays Festival at Dennis Gallagher Arts Pavilion in San Francisco, CA.
PARADISE: Belly of the Beast at Brava Theater. Part of the 2018 National Queer Arts Festival from May 7-9 in San Francisco.
This video is an excerpt of the opening scene of PARADISE: Belly of the Beast (2018), a multimedia musical theater production combing American Sign Language, choreography, song, circus acrobatics, pole dance, burlesque, and aerial dance, to tell the story of a fallen Angel searching for her way back home. In this scene I performed as the Singing Siren alongside India Sky Davis (the Angel), KaliMa Amilak (Speaking Siren), and Kevin Abrams (Signing Siren). This show was written, directed and conceived by India Sky Davis with an all queer cast of color, under her company Topsy Turvy Queer Circus.