Tuesday, July 8, 2008


Alabama Shakespeare Festival Associate Artist, sixth season: Lettice "Lettice and Lovage," Queen Cymbeline, Celeste Thinking of You PREMIERES: OFF BROADWAY: Ronee Progress (Hudson Guild), Mary Stanley Nightingale (Vineyard). US: Amy Grace (Portland Rep), Sylvia Weapons of Happiness (Buffalo). OTHER THEATRE: Flora Humble Boy, Nancy Soccer Moms (BoarsHead), Mistress Page Merry Wives of Windsor, Mrs. Prentice What The Butler Saw, B Three Tall Women, Lady Croom Arcadia, Maria Lend Me A Tenor (Meadow Brook) Pam Joe Egg (New Rose), Pat Sight Unseen, Diana Lend Me A Tenor, Hazel Up ‘n Under, Joy Shadowlands (Portland Rep), Marlene Top Girls (Virginia Stage), Candida (Peterborough), Gwendolyn The Importance of Being Earnest (Pioneer Theatre and Cincinnati), Olivia Twelfth Night (Alaska Rep); Margot Dial M (St. Louis), Ariadne Heartbreak House (Indiana Rep), Hermione Winter's Tale, cast Hamlet (Fort Worth Shakespeare Festival), Myra Hay Fever (Cincinnati and Portland Rep),Illona The Play's the Thing (Tarrytown) Adriana Comedy of Errors (Folger), Chorus Iphigenia at Aulis (McCarter), Hermione The Winter’s Tale, Anna Inspector General (Williamstown). LONDON’S WEST END: Dietrich Piaf, Phyllis Fontaine Once In A Lifetime, Children of the Sun (Royal Shakespeare Company: Aldwych, Wyndham’s, Piccadilly Theatres). BRITISH REP: Cabaret(Exeter), Joseph (Sheffield and York), Wizard of Oz, Super Skirt (Sheffield), Alladin (Peterborough), Henry IV part 1&2 (Bristol)TOUR: John,Paul, Ringo & Bert (Cameron McIntosh Productions) Maria Twelfth Night (London Productions), Isadora Duncan What A Way To Run A Revolution (Cockpit). FILM: Imaginary Crimes with Harvey Kietel, Valentino with Nureyev, Communal Flat with Shirley Booth and Paul Savorino, Wicker Man, She Devil with Meryl Streep and Rosanne Barr.

(Director) Alabama Shakespeare Festival Associate Artist directed The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Part A and The Trojan Women. In Michigan she directed Angels In America, Part 1, The Millennium Approaches and won Lansing’s Pulsar Award for The Comedy of Errors at the BoarsHead Theatre. She has also directed Speak Truth To Power, Someone To Watch Over Me (Cranbrook), Much Ado About Nothing (Waterworks), Beyond Oz, Casualties (Heartlande), and Story Theatre (Interlochen). She joined the 2005 La Ma Ma Umbria's International Director Symposium in Italy working with Joanne Akalitis and Ann Bogart. A career actress, Diana was a member of England's Royal Shakespeare Company where she was directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, Terry Hands and Howard Davies. She played leading roles Off-Broadway and at major US regional theatre and has had parts in Hollywood films. Diana has worked with voice experts Cis Berry and Andrew Wade of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Patsy Rodenburg of the Royal National Theatre as well as Pat Quigly of the Stratford Festival, Ontario. She has taught widely. Before training as a classical actress at the UK’s Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Diana was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow in European experimental theatre. She received her British Society of Fight Director’s Certificate from the legendary William Hobbs at London’s Royal Academy.

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