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Elizabeth Falzone, Managing Director, Seattle: I am a full-charge bookkeeper with over 20 years experience in a variety of businesses and nonprofits. I hold a Bachelors of Science from Illinois State University in Multidisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in early adolescent education. I am pursuing a Masters of Arts degree at Seattle University's School of Theology and Ministry. In addition to my work at Living Voices, I am a part-time bookkeeping assistant at St. James Cathedral in Seattle. I teach 7th/8th grade Sunday School and I sing with the amazing Women of St. James Schola Choir. I have enjoyed working for Living Voices since 2001. |
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Ellen Dessler, Seattle: Ellen is proud to start her third season with such a fabulous company. She also tours the country with Effective Arts (an adult training company using interactive drama.) She is a board member of ReAct were she has performed in multiple shows including both runs of School House Rock: Live! Seattle area theatres: ArtsWest, Village Theatre, Theatre Schmeater, Bellevue Civic, CLO, Harlequin (Olympia), Annex, Second Story Repertory, Open Circle, and Interplayers Ensemble (Spokane). Toured with Small Change Original Theatre (based in Minneapolis) and in Alaska with Princess Cruise Lines and Tours. A graduate of University of Washington and New York's Circle in the Square (summer workshop). |
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Dan Dennis, Music Composer, Ohio: Dan began with Living Voices as one of the original Dust Bowl boys portraying Mark Dobson in Journey from the Dust. After touring throughout the US for several years, he moved into production work for Living Voices, composing and recording music for La Causa, Native Vision, Island of Hope, and most recently Hear My Voice. In Seattle, Dan has performed as actor, singer,and musician with Seattle Children's Theatre, Seattle Opera, Intiman Theatre, and others. He has written many musical scores for Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Theater Simple, Capitol Hill Arts Center, and Open Circle Theater. He helped create and has performed STARBALL (a dreamy musical astronomy show) at some of the world's best known planetaria including New York's Hayden Planetarium, Chicago's Adler Planetarium, and at La Ciudad de las Artes y Ciencias in Valencia, Spain. He is a member of Actor's Equity Association and is currently teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University where he will receive his MFA in Theatre Pedagogy. |
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Kristen Foster, Denver: Kristen is a Denver-based Equity actress who has had extensive experience both in New York City as well as regionally. While in New York she worked with Tony award winner Marion Seldes in Edward Albee's Off-Broadway and NY Premiere of The Play About the Baby. She has performed a number of roles in children's theatre and enjoys Shakespeare as well, where favorites include include playing Olivia in Twelfth Night and Hamlet in Hamlet. Kristen is an Occupational Therapist and teaches hatha yoga, kids yoga, and pre-natal yoga. |
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Campbell Echols, New York City: Campbell is thrilled to be performing with Living Voices. She is a writer and an Equity actor who trained at the Guildford School of Acting & Dance in Surrey England and earned a BA (Hons) in Theatre Studies from Rose Buford & University of Manchester in the UK. After performing and traveling with the Classical Theatre Company in England, Campbell returned home to work in the Washington, DC, performing with the Glen Echo Dance Theatre Arts Lab, Source Theatre, Georgetown Theatre Company, DCAC and Shakespeare on the Green. Now living in New York City, Campbell has worked with Manhattan Theatre Source, Collective Unconscious Writers Project and with Boo Arts. She most recently finished work on two short films: The Underground and The Other Side of Tomorrow. |
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Lily Gladstone, Seattle: Lily Gladstone (Blackfeet/Nez Perce) graduated with a BFA in Acting and a Minor in Native American Studies from the University of Montana in 2008. Most recently, she completed a year-long tour with the Montana Repertory Theatre’s production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Born and raised on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana, Lily is excited to be a part of an expanding presence of Native voices in the performing arts. In the words of Alice Benally’s grandmother, “To speak a thought is to give it power.” Therefore, to carry one through to performance gives it exceptional power. To perform the stories of real people and real experience carries a heavy responsibility. It is with this belief that Lily is both honored and humbled to be a part of Living Voices. She hopes that through Native Vision, she can in some way honor this story of extreme adversity, extraordinary resilience and, ultimately, of healing. |
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D.J. Gommels, Music Composer, Seattle: D.J. has been a pianist, arranger, conductor, and music director in theatre for over 20 years. He has worked in numerous venues for summer stock, regional, dinner theatre and touring productions throughout the United States. D.J. has also enjoyed a career in opera and is a frequent soloist with orchestra ensembles across the United States and Canada as well as many opera companies. D.J. received his training from the University of South Dakota and The Peabody Conservatory. He has received numerous awards and citations for contributions to music and musical theatre. Currently D.J. works in Seattle at the Cornish College for the Arts as an accompanist and instructor. |
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Kathy Hsieh, Development Director, Seattle: Kathy Hsieh is the Community Liaison for the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs for Seattle. She is also one of the original founders, creators, and producers of SIS Productions. Kathy sits on the Freehold Studio/Theatre Lab Diversity Scholarship Committee, on the Advisory Board for ReAct, and on the Fred Hutchinson Research Center's Chinese Women's Cancer Project. She has also served as Development Director for Living Voices for ten years. Kathy is one of the original founders of Theatre Puget Sound, and has served as Treasurer for the League of Fringe Theatres, Board President for ReAct, and Board President for the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation where she helped to create their Summer Youth Leadership Program. An award-winning actor, playwright and director, Kathy spent seven years touring the United States and Canada presenting over a thousand performances of Within the Silence for Living Voices. Her script B4 was selected won Honorable Mention in the National Works of Merit Playwriting Contest 2007 and was selected as part of the International Centre for Women Playwrights’ “Chicago Her-rah Festival 2007.” She is also featured in The Dramatist Magazine’s July/August cover story as one of “50 to Watch.” |
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Jen Grigg, San Francisco: Jen has been a member of Living Voices on and off since 2001. An avid traveler, she has performed on stages from Seattle to New York, New Mexico to Louisville and is proud to have acted in the Humana Festival of New American Plays. She is the curator of FUSION Theatre's new play festival, The Seven, and for the past three summer's was a stage combat and dialect instructor at Albuquerque Academy. Favorite roles include Mairead in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Catherine in Boston Marriage, Rebecca in The Long Christmas Ride Home. Mrs.Grigg holds a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts and is also a nationally certified massage therapist. |
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Jean Goto, New York: Jean Goto, a native New Yorker, is a graduate from NYU's drama department. She is a founder of The Anthropologists, a movement based theater company performing in New York City. Her theater projects include Give Us Bread (The Anthropologists), Strange Attractors (The Flea), Pelops Children (Adam Marple), Falling (Flux Theater Ensemble), Guidance (Small Pond), 365 plays/365 days (Ma-Yi Theater), The Christopher Columbus Project (Katherine and Friends), and The Potato Play (Milk Can Theater). Her various film projects include Race Riot (Comedy Central Pilot), The Greatest Cubist Ever (NYU), Simple Days (NYFA thesis film), Antithesis (CCNY grad film), and Dinner Date (Jesse Ash Productions). She also recently did voice-over work for Pretending to Work (Dennis Liu). |
