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Bio:
This semester, Rachel Kerry will graduate from the University of Southern Calfornia with a BA in theatre. Her main emphasis is in acting and performance art. Last spring she studied at New York University's Playwrights Horizon Theatre School where she was part of an ensemble of actors who created When Things Stopped, a stage adaptation of Dorris Lessing's novel, Memoirs of a Survivor that incorporated multimedia, dance, and text on stage. She has also studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia and interned with the Los Angeles-based Center Theatre Group. After this summer, she plans to see where the wind will take her.
Abstract:
What does it mean when love affects the very fabric of your reality? A mysterious figure known only as "#3" weaves verbal spider webs around the stage. Two high-school aged girls tap into the unsettling passions of youth. Surreal tableaus melt onto the stage, characters begin to warp, and the audience experiences a dark, visceral ride.
Seven Fragments explores the dreams and delusions of individuals shattered by matters of the heart. Poetic text, story and character, mask performance, live music, and digital media animations integrate on stage to create a unquely unified multimedia production. As new developments in technology reshape today's notions of theatre, the artist's voice evolves. Challenging tranditional models of performance, the actors have developed their characters not only through story but through the imaginative interpretation of visual media. Seven Fragments is an exploration of the new transitions in the creative process made possible by multimedia.
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We should all talk about the timing for our bios--e.g. do we keep it in the present (this semester) or do we say "will earn a degree" or simply "is majoring in"? We should all be uniform on the tense here which we will talk about. Sentence three: break up sentence to emphasize the last clause (multimedia, dance and text) since it seems to bear on your thesis (anticipates it).
Abstract: I like the opening with a rhetorical question--it draws one in. The next three sentences of the first paragraph might have "in this multi-mediated stage production" or some other pointer to the vehicle.
The next chunk might function better as two paragraphs (fix the typo in "traditional") and somehow indicate that YOU have adapted the characters via the actors. Or at the very least, that you have asked them to interpret using your visual media. I know it's a collaboration, but this is your deal!
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