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resume - PERFORMER
ELISE DEWSBERRY
SAG / CANADIAN EQUITY / ACTRA
MEMBER OF ACADEMY REPERTORY COMPANY
Cell: 562-212-6415 Home: 323-663-1760 Voice: Mezzo low F to high B |
Height: 5’9″ Hair: Blonde/Brown Eyes: Brown |
THEATRE | ||
Mother’s Mothers Day | Anna Jarvis et. al. | Broadwater/Hollywood Fringe |
Feet First | Margo | Broadwater/Hollywood Fringe |
Forum (A Funny Thing…) | Domina | Cabrillo/MTW (L. Wilkenfeld) |
Forks in the Road | 15 Minute Musicals | Lonny Chapman Theatre |
Frogs in the Living Room | Aline Barnsdall | NoHo Arts Center |
Mary Marie | Woman | Stages, Rubicon, Chance |
City of Light | Molly’s Mother | ARC, Santa Barbara Festival |
The Angel of Painted Post | Ruth | Lonny Chapman Theatre (ARC) |
Now and Then A Hero | Patricia, Cora, et al. | Colony (Cate Caplin)/STAGES |
Red v. Blue (15 Minute Musicals) | all five shows | Colony Theatre (NMI) |
Spellcasters | Queen Mab, Sycorax | The Secret Rose ACToberfest 07 |
Der Strunkenwhitenlieder | Apostrophe | Colony Theatre |
Ernest in Love | Lady Bracknell | Long Beach Playhouse (Kysa Cohen) |
Suburb! The Musical | Rhoda Ravitch | Long Beach Playhouse (Martin Lang) |
Seminars with Style | Lady Hilda von Wimbleshot (as featured in L.A. Times) |
Fern’s Garden, Los Alamitos |
The Mikado | Katisha | Long Beach/Drayton Festival |
Roundheads & Peakheads | Cornamontis/Superior | Cubiculo Theatre – OOB |
Mikado/Pinafore | Chorus | Stratford Shakespeare Festival |
Lady Macbeth | Macbeth | Virginia Shakespeare Festival |
A Flea in Her Ear | Olympe | Pennsylvania Stage Company |
Summer & Smoke | Alma Winemiller | Boston Conservatory Theatre |
Move Over, Mrs. Markham | Joanna Markham | Kawartha Festival |
Anne of Green Gables | Miss Stacy u/s | Tapestry Music Theatre |
The Club | Freddie | Lunchbox Theatre Calgary |
Noises Off | Belinda Blair | Montclair Summer Theatre (NJ) |
Pack of Lies | Barbara Jackson | Montclair Summer Theatre (NJ) |
The Real Thing | Charlotte | Montclair Summer Theatre (NJ) |
Brighton Beach Memoirs | Blanche | Muskoka Festival Theatre |
FILM & TELEVISION |
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It’s A Miracle | Lead | PAX (dir. Christopher Poole) |
Frog Goes to Dinner | Lead | Short (dir. Gary Templeton) |
Good Sex with Dr. Ruth | Lead | Lifetime Network |
Mikado/Pinafore | Featured | CBC (dir. Norman Campbell) |
TRAINING |
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Boston Conservatory Theatre | B.F.A. (Drama /Musical Theatre Major) | |
Royal Conservatory of Toronto | A.R.C.T. (Speech Arts – Performance) | |
SPECIAL SKILLS |
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Quick study, Looping, Dialects (Standard British, Irish, Southern), Roller Blading, Computer Whiz, Good with Children, Up-to-date U.S. Passport |
resume - DIRECTOR/DRAMATURGE
ELISE DEWSBERRY
DRAMATURG/DIRECTOR/WRITER
DRAMATURGY/STORY EDITING:
- Artistic Director, New Musicals Inc. (formerly Academy for New Musical Theatre) 2009 to present
ongoing dramaturgy for member projects as part of the ANMT curriculum, as well as for producer-driven projects for producers across the country - Associate Artistic Director, Academy for New Musical Theatre (ANMT) 2004 to 2009
ongoing dramaturgy for member projects as part of the ANMT curriculum, as well as for producer-driven projects for producers across the country - Dramaturg for the NMI/ANMT Seach for New Voices in American Musical Theatre – (annual)
- Co-Owner and Outlining & Book Lab Evaluator for WritingMusicalTheatre.com, an online curriculum in the craft of writing for musical theatre
- Founding Member of the Academy Repertory Company (ARC) at ANMT
- Dramaturg for world premiere of THE MAX FACTOR FACTOR by Adrian Bewley, Joseph Blodgett, and Chana Wise – summer 2015 – NoHo Arts Center
- Dramaturg for world premiere of A RING IN BROOKLYN by Eric Dodson and Alan Fleishman – summer 2013 – NoHo Arts Center
- Dramaturg for early development of HOME STREET HOME by Fat Mike, Soma Snakeoil, and Jeff Marx – 2011-2015
- Dramaturg for early development of LOVE BYTES by Roger Love and Ann McNamee – 2009-2014
- Dramaturg for world premiere of BACK TO THE DREAM at the Red Mountain Theatre Company in Birmingham, Alabama – Spring 2006
- Dramaturg for world premiere of the new musical IMELDA at East West Players – May 2005
- Free-lance Story Editor – 1990-1999
on-going analysis and story editing for feature film scripts for various Canadian filmmakers including Myra Fried (HURT PENGUINS) - Co-Director (with Virginia Reh) of the SCRIPT LAB – a writers’ and actors’ collective for developing new Canadian scripts – 1990 – 1999
included teaching the Writers Intensive Workshop, facilitating play readings, and providing script analyses - Dramaturgical Associate – Canadian Stage Company – New Play Development
November 1992 – April 1994 (full time position) with Peter Hinton and Iris Turcott - Resident Dramaturg – Smile Theatre Company for 1992-93 season
- Dramaturg for new musical FIREWEEDS. Book, Music and Lyrics by Cathy Elliott
staged reading as a benefit for Script Lab - Assistant Co-ordinator of the Muskoka Festival Musical Theatre Writers’ Colony under Patrick Young (Summer 1991)
DIRECTING:
- Director of ANMT’s annual 15 MINUTE MUSICALS – 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2019
– new 15 minute musicals, at the Colony Theatre/Lonny Chapman/Broadwater Second Stage - Director of CURSES! and THANKSGIVING IN ITHACA at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival
- Director of INVISIBLE – LONNY CHAPMAN/3-D THEATRICALS – STAGES FESTIVAL 2015 and Concert Reading – COLONY THEATRE 3-D THEATRICALS – JUNE 2016
staged reading of a new musical by David Hollingsworth and David Orris - Director of MAD BOMBER and BLOODLINE – STAGES FESTIVAL 2013
staged readings of new musicals - Director of CITY OF LIGHT – COLONY THEATRE 2013
staged reading of a new musical by Gabrielle Wagner, Jan Roper, and Julie Weiner - Director of MARIE MARIE – NOHO ARTS CENTYER 2012
staged reading of a new musical by Chana Wise and Carl Johnson - Director of THE RING – STAGES FESTIVAL 2011
staged reading of a new musical by Eric Dodson and Alan Ross Fleishman - Director of THE WATER – COLONY THEATRE 2009
staged reading of a new musical by Georgia Stitt, Jeff Hylton, and Tim Werenko - Director of THE GROUCH’S DAUGHTER – THOUSAND OAKS FESTIVAL 2007
staged reading of a new musical by Mark Hollmann and Jack Helbig - Director of LOOT at The Longbeach Playhouse – 2004
- Director/Dramaturg/Producer of the one-woman musical NINE MONTHS 1992-2008
Book and Lyrics by Carl Ritchie and Music by Stephen Woodjetts - Director/Dramaturg/Producer of the one-woman musical NINE MONTHS II 1996-1998
Book and Lyrics by Carl Ritchie and Music by Stephen Woodjetts - Director of NUNSENSE II and NUNSENSE III at Rainbow Theatre, Parry Sound – 1995, 1998
- Director of the World Premiere of STAINS by Danny Zanbilowicz – December 1994
a BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES Seed Show – Toronto - Director of EAST OF ELVIS by Rona Waddington – Red Barn Theatre – August, 1993
- Director of THE MIKADO – Georgetown Globe Productions – May, 1993
- Director of CHAPTER TWO by Neil Simon – Scarborough Players – January, 1993
- Director of NORA’S HOUSE by Cathy Elliott – World Premiere – Smile Theatre Co. – March, 1993
- Director of FIREWEEDS by Cathy Elliott – World Premiere at the Red Barn Theatre – July, 1992
- Assistant Director of THAT DIVINE CLARA by Robert More
World Premiere – Smile Theatre Company (Tom Kneebone, A.D.) - Director of THE PRINCESS AND THE HANDMAIDEN by Leslie Arden for Prologue to the Performing Arts
- Apprentice Artistic Director of the Muskoka Festival (under Michael Ayoub) (1991)
- Assistant Director of SEDUCED BY MOONLIGHT at the Muskoka Festival
- Director of I DO, I DO! for the Muskoka Festival Young Company 1991
WRITING:
- ANY BODY HOME? (with Carl Ritchie)
a full-length farce – published by Dramatic Publishing, Inc.
multiple productions worldwide - CONNECTED (with Carl Ritchie)
a one-act play on the hazards of inter-office voice mail commissioned by
Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary for their Stage One Festival – 1998 - THE MUFFIN CLUB (with Carl Ritchie)
a one-act play about the infamous woman-only pyramid scheme
commissioned by Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary for their Stage One Festival - MORTGAGE! (with David Warrack and Michael Lamport)
a musical mid-life crisis based loosely on La Boheme
a workshop was presented in May of 1999 in Toronto - A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE (with David Fleishman)
a feature film script on the true-life story of a Canadian hero - SONATA D’AMORE (with arrangements by Charles Cozens)
an eclectic concert piece for two actor/singers and chamber ensemble
a fifteen-minute version was presented at Ontario Contact 1997
MISCELLANEOUS:
- • Ovation Voter – 8 seasons (and current season)
- • Founder of the SoCal New Musicals Network – 2010 to 2012
- • Member of the New Works Committee for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre – 2009
- • Member of the Selection Committee for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s annual Festival of New Musicals – 2005, 2006, 2008-2010
- • Member of Trial Audition Panel – Theatre Ontario Trial Auditions – November, 1992
- • Workshops in Directing – Drayton Festival Theatre, August 1992
- • Play Polishing – CALIFORNIA SUITE – Guelph Little Theatre – September, 1992
- • Member of Muskoka Festival’s Musical Theatre Writers’ Colony, 1988-1991
- • Member of Script Development Workshop, New York City, 1984-1989
- • Member of the Board of Directors of Theatre Ontario 1994-1998