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Email: mfw@pinkmantis.com 617-875-8965
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Versatile professional actor experienced in the demands of screen and live performance. I bring intelligence and polish to your project, whether it is on-camera acting, live presentations, voice-overs, or dramatic performance for training purposes. Script advising and consulting on media presentations.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
- Fully trained in public speaking, comic and dramatic performance
- Ear-prompter proficiency—I can prep and deliver your script quickly
- Professional background in business and IT—I understand the needs and language of corporate clients
- Expert trainer with extensive and varied background in instruction, from IT courses to administrative workshops to college English
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SELECTED TELEVISION / COMMERCIAL / INDUSTRIAL
| Clintara Psychiatric Instructional |
Schizophrenic Subject |
Winikur Productions |
Skillsoft Training Videos |
Businessmen |
Stone Media |
Comcast “What’s with the dish?” |
Principal (Husband) |
Picture Park |
Comcast “Now” |
Business Traveler |
Picture Park |
Change Management Industrial |
Don (Vice President) |
Linkage |
CT Lottery |
Moviegoer |
Picture Park |
Power Play Trailer |
Lead Kidnapper |
TrailerPix |
VOICEOVER
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| Member, Actors' Equity Association |
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| Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 |
Poins, Mowbray, et al |
Dir. Patrick Swanson |
| Othello |
Cassio |
Dir. Judy Braha |
| Tru Grace: Holiday Memoirs |
Buddy |
Dir. Wes Savick |
| Taming of the Shrew |
Grumio |
Dir. Melia Bensussen |
| Much Ado About Nothing |
Borachio / Friar |
Dir. Benjamin Evett |
| The Random Caruso |
Tom |
Dir. Joe Antoun |
| The Duchess of Malfi |
Ferdinand |
Dir. David R. Gammons |
| The Merchant of Venice |
Graziano |
Dir. Melia Bensussen |
| King John |
King John |
Dir. Benjamin Evett |
| Comp |
Kevin |
Dir. Ron Wilson
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| Love's Labour's Lost |
Navarre/Maria/Nathaniel |
Dir. Benjamin Evett |
| Titus Andronicus |
Lucius Andronicus |
Dir. David R. Gammons |
| Twelfth Night |
Sir Andrew Aguecheek |
Dir. Robert Walsh |
| King Lear |
Cornwall |
Dir. Patrick Swanson |
| Measure for Measure |
Pompey |
Dir. Robert Walsh |
| Richard III |
Ratcliff / Brakenbury |
Dir. Benjamin Evett |
| Ionesco, Not Ionesco: 3 Short Plays |
Ionesco / Painter / Gentleman |
Dir. Steve Rotolo |
| Antony and Cleopatra |
Pompey / Scarus / Euphronius |
Dir. Jason Slavick |
| Love's Fire |
Painter / Seth |
Dirs. Monique Ortiz, Mark Vanderzee |
| Troilus and Cressida |
Ulysses |
Dir. Todd Hearon |
| Native Speech |
Jimmy Shillelagh / Crazy Joe Navajo |
Dir. Steve Rotolo |
| The Alchemist |
Subtle |
Dir. Andrew Hartley |
| The Borderers |
Rivers |
Dir. Jonathan Mulrooney |
| The Spanish Tragedy |
Lorenzo |
Dir. Andrew Hartley |
| A Chaste Maid in Cheapside |
Touchwood Senior |
Dir. Andrew Hartley |
| The Metamorphosis |
Mr. Samsa |
Dir. Wendy Allen |
| The Roaring Girl |
Laxton |
Dir. Andrew Watson |
| The Dwarfs |
Pete |
Dir. Alan Poindexter |
| Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Sleeping
Beauty or Coma? |
Miss Thick / Ali / P.J. |
Dir. George Brown |
| James IV |
King of England |
Dir. Kirk Melnikoff |
| The Rover |
Antonio |
Dir. Susan Marrash-Minnerly |
| Tales of the Lost Formicans |
Eric |
Dir. Alan Poindexter |
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Resident Acting Company, Actors' Shakespeare Project (Founding Member)
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Boston University Humanities Foundation grant (to direct Women Beware
Women)
Boston University Humanities Foundation grant (to direct The Malcontent)
Best Actor, Black Box (UNCC)
Best Supporting Actor, Black Box
(UNCC)
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Acting: Susan Marrash-Minnerly,
Jill Bloede (UNC Charlotte)
Voice: Patricia Petersen (UNC Charlotte)
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2002 – 2003
Graduate courses in Arts Administration, Boston University
1996-2001 Ph.D. Candidate
in English, Boston University (English Renaissance Drama)
1995 M.A. in English, Boston University
1991 B.A. in English, UNC Charlotte (cum laude)
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Dialects, combat, music
(voice, bass guitar, guitar, saxophone),
ballroom dance, sports, photography,
filmmaking, drawing and painting
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Quills, Assistant to Director (New
Repertory Theatre)
Doctor Faustus, Director (The
Bridge Theatre Company)
Women Beware Women, Director (Willing Suspension Productions)
The Malcontent, Director (Willing Suspension Productions)
The Oresteia, Director (Core Curriculum,
BU)
James IV, Asst. Director (Willing Suspension
Productions)
A Pillar of the Church, Director (Upward Bound/Project
Achieve Players)
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Director
of Sales and Marketing (2004-2005), Actors' Shakespeare
Project
Managing Director ((2002-2003), Molasses
Tank Productions
Board
of Directors (1995-2000), Willing Suspension Productions
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