Blurring Boundaries with New Ambassadors

6/26/2019

Last week I had the pleasure of performing in two short plays that were a part of New Ambassadors Theatre Company's Blurring Boundaries: 6 Short Plays Challenging Societal Perception. I was in "Prairie Fire" written and directed by Mandy Murphy (a fantastic young playwright who has been described as a "female Sam Shepard" and "David Mamet without the misogyny") and "Guns and Ammunition" by Janet Bentley and directed by David Adam Gill. They were both such strongly written plays and so very different from each other and it was so much fun to play both of those roles. "Prairie Fire" is about two old friends that are seeing each other for the first time in 15 years at a high school reunion. (And I did have to learn how to properly do shots for this play that is named after hot-sauce-laden-tequila shots!) "Guns and Ammunition" is a spoof on and a sort of love letter to the film noir genre, and all the main players, besides being noir archetypes, also happen to be lesbians. But one of them is "broadening her horizons" by seeing outside gender divisions and falling in love with someone who might be male and gets flak from her cohorts about it...
A picture from "Prairie Fire" is above on the left and I'm the hysterical blonde in the picture from "Guns and Ammunition" above right. (The actors seen here, from left to right, are: Sevrin Anne Mason, me, then me again (as a blonde!), Marie Elena O'Brien, and Elizabeth Jasicki. Sevrin is hidden by Marie Elena, but her shoulder's in that picture too!)
It was a blast performing these two plays and working with this group of people.