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Chris Woodworth
Acting Resume

Like many theatre artists, acting was how I first became interested in theatre. Although much of my theatrical work is behind the directing table or with a pen in my hand, I still enjoy performing. In recent years I have rekindled my love of acting, appearing on stages as small as the front seat of my car (Dashboard Dramas in Rochester Fringe Festival) and as large as a 1,400 seat opera house (Dear Elizabeth at the Smith Opera House in Geneva, NY).

Theatre (selected)

  • Rumors — Chris — Blackfriars Theatre

  • Dashboard Dramas, "Initiation" —  Dolly Parton / Ingabjord — Rochester Fringe Festival

  • POTUS —Stephanie — Blackfriars Theatre

  • Dashboard Dramas X,"ROC the Crime" —Shandy PlowRochester Fringe Festival

  • Decade of Dashboard, "Opera Buffa" —Renalta — Rochester Fringe Festival

  • Dashboard After Dark, "Stake Out" — Vee — Rochester Fringe Festival

  • Dashboard Dramas IX, "This Must Be The Place" — Cam — Rochester Fringe Festival

  • Dashboard Dramas VIII, "Giddy Uptown" — Montana — Rochester Fringe Festival

  • Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind — Chris— Blackfriars Theatre

  • Dear Elizabeth — Elizabeth Bishop — Missing Marquee Theatre / Smith Opera House

  • Dashboard Dramas VI, “Hot Seat” —Lindsey — Rochester Fringe Festival

  • Traumaturgy —Victoria Demming Lawrence — Bloomington Playwrights Project

  • The Scrooge Variations — Mrs. Cratchitt / Ensemble — Bloomington Playwrights Project

  • On the Twentieth Century — Letitia Peabody Primrose — Geneva Theatre Guild

  • Oliver — Widow Corney — Geneva Theatre Guild

  • Sally’s Rape— Jeannie — Bowling Green State University

  • Over the River & Through the Woods — Aida — Bowling  Green State University

  • Bash —Young Woman — Bowling Green State University

  • Still Life — Cheryl — Bowling Green State University

  • Independence — Kess — Indiana University

  • Getting Out —Arlene — St. Lawrence University

  • Polaroid Stories — Persephone / Semele — St. Lawrence University

  • Beggar on Horseback — Mrs. Cady — St. Lawrence University

Aerial (Lyra / Hoop)

Film

Education

  • PhD Theatre (Bowling Green State U.)

  • MA Theatre & Drama (Indiana U.)

  • BA Speech & Theatre (St. Lawrence U.)

 

Additional Performance Training

  • Aerial Arts —silks, lyra, hammock, static trapeze (Roc City Circus, Aerial Arts of Rochester, 2016-present)

  • Frantic Assembly Masterclass Series (2021)

  • PUSH Physical Theatre Summer Intensive (2016, 2017, 2023)

  • SITI Summer Theater Intensive (2014; trained in Suzuki, Viewpoints, & Composition)

  • LaMaMa Umbria International Directors Symposium (Trained with Tina Landau, Master Oh, Claudia Castellucci, Stephan Koplowitz, [2015] Anne Bogart, Aikiko Aizawa, Maya Zbib, Annie-B Parson, Dijana Milosovic, Basil Twist, Jean-Guy Lecat, Andrei Serban [2019])

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