Monday, June 6, 2011

Ensemble Member, Lanna Joffrey


CURRENT:

Colorado Shakespeare Festival productions of COMEDY OF ERRORS, THE INSPECTOR GENERAL and ROMEO AND JULIET

The Factory's HAMLET PROJECT directed by Tim Carroll, Louis Scheeder and Miriam Silverman, supported by The Public and NYU

My voice in THE PERLIN PAPERS, an art installation at the Guggenheim Museum created by Jenny Perlin http://www.nilrep.net/

Developing a new play supported by New Georges and NYTW with playwright Lauren Feldman and director Pirronne Yousefzadeh

My shorty short poem SENSE memory published by the online poetry site, unFOLD http://unfoldmag.wordpress.com/

RECENT:
The Working Theater: Director's Salon production of WAITING FOR LEFTY by Clifford Odets

Women Center Stage: An excerpt from A PEOPLE By Lauren Feldman, Dir. Jessi D. Hill

Irene Fornes New Play festival readings of ALL FALL DOWN by Lisa Ramirez, directed by KJ Sanchez at INTAR


Performing my Spoken Word in Noor Theatre's curated evening for BE Company's BEginnings Salon Series

Acting ensemble of Suzan-Lori Parks' NYU playwrights class, "Loving the Living Playwright" developing new plays 20 pages/minutes at a time

Actor for The Lark Playground, playwrights: Robert Attenweiler, Andrea Lepcio, Sung Rno & Andrea Thome; directors: Lisa Rothe, Sturgis Warner & Jose Zayas

A staged reading of THREE ETERNAL DAYS dir. Dominic D'Andrea

Developing the adaptation of Alice Walker's OVERCOMING SPEECHLESSNESS with director Tamilla Woodard & writer Dana Balicki

Reading of an adaptation of Eran Kolirin's film THE BAND'S VISIT dir. Max Williams, presenters: Orin Wolf, Jane Dubin & David F. Schwartz

Romanian Cultural Institute readings of Dan Lungu and Peca Stefan's writing, Dir. Tamilla Woodard

The Public Theater's MEASURE FOR MEASURE By William Shakespeare, Dir. Michelle Hensleyhttp://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/theater_in_prison_for_good_measure_uOtpOEo24jt30HCLdkdnLK

The Denver Center presents THE HOUSE OF SPIRITS By Caridad Svich, Dir. Jose Zayas

LANNA JOFFREY

Jason Grote's 1001 (Denver Center, dir. Ethan McSweeny) Denver Post Ovation Award, Nine Parts of Desire (Lyric Stage & Kitchen Theatre, dir. Carmel O'Reilly) IRNE Award Best Solo Performance, Lanna's documentary play, Valiant (dir. Tamilla Woodard) NY Fringe Festival Performance Award & NY Innovative Theatre nomination, Sad and Merry Madness (The Public, Barry Edelstein), The House of Spirits (Denver Center, Jose Zayas), Metamorphoses (Capital Repertory, Maggie Mancinelli-Carter), Damascus (Northern Stage, Brooke Ciardelli), The Fever Chart (Underground Railway Theater, Elena Araoz) The Snow Queen (Urban Stages, Daniella Topol), Mac Wellaman's Cellophane (The Flea, Jim Simpson), Like I Say (The Flea, Len Jenkin), Saviana Stanescu's Waxing West (Goldberg Festival, Jonathan Silverstein), Israel Horovitz'sSecurity & A Mother's Love (Barefoot Theatre Company, Eric Nightengale & Pam Seiderman),Marko The Prince (Immigrants Theatre Project, Marcy Arlin) and Dancing at Lughnasa (Cider Mill Playhouse, Wendy Dann). Film/TV: Security, Delocated, Breathtaking, Someday Soon and The New Americans. Writing: She has collaborated with Karen Finley on Lanna's solo piece, "Rain" (The Flea) and with Creative Destruction Theatre Company for their evening of Mashups and B-Sides (Nelson Eusebio, The Tank). She also regularly performs her spoken word at Nuyorican Poets Café, TerraNova Collective's Subterranean and other NYC venues and events. Barefoot Theatre Company member since 2010.

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