Jeff Mitchell’s recent theatre credits include Emmett in Legally Blonde: the Musical (Footlight Club), Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (Olde Salem Stage Company), Freddie in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Arlington Friends of the Drama) & Panch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Needham Community Theater). Kara would like to thank Amanda for this wonderful opportunity!
This February, she looks forward to performing in Tick, Tick, …Boom! with Colonial Chorus Players in Reading, alongside her wonderful partner, Jeff. Favorite past roles include Éponine in Les Mis, "Somewhere" Girl in West Side Story, The Mistress in Evita, Hope Cladwell in Urinetown, and Natalie in Next to Normal. Kara Chu Nelson is honored to be singing at MIT’s Artists Beyond the Desk with some of her favorite humans! She has also performed at Umbrella Stage Company in Concord, North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Moonbox Productions in Boston, and Seacoast Rep in Portsmouth, among others. Thank you to MIT ABD, and to Kara, Jeff, and Brendan for joining her today! Now that her infant has stolen her heart and the spotlight, she has focused more on taking the stage as a vocalist in various concerts and showcases. Her last theatrical endeavours included Kate in See Rock City & Other Destinations at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland and Elle Woods in The Footlight Club's November 2019 production of Legally Blonde: the Musical. She has worked for MIT Lincoln Laboratory for the last 13 years. Though the pandemic and becoming a mom put some things on pause, Amanda was an active musical theatre actress throughout New England between 20. Brendan Kenney will be accompanying us on the piano.Īmanda Casale graduated from Tufts University with a BS in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics, and in 2014 earned her Masters in Statistics from Harvard University.
Pictured above: Amanda top left, Brendan top right, Jeff bottom left, and Kara bottom right.ĪBD Presents: Singers: Amanda Casale, Kara Chu Nelson and Jeff Mitchell and Brendan Kenney on pianoĪmanda Casale, Kara Chu Nelson, and Jeff Mitchell will be singing musical theatre duet and trio selections. The ABD is grateful and honored to have Stephanie Gayle come talk about her body of work at Killian Hall! If you are a fan of her work and have any questions for Stephanie, please email them here. She works in the finance department of Facilities at MIT. A graduate of Grub Street’s Novel Incubator program, she cofounded the Craft on Draft reading series.
She is the Immediate Past President of Sisters in Crime. Her debut novel, My Summer of Southern Discomfort, made Redbook’s Top Ten Summer Reads list.
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Since her move to New York, she has performed work at Dixon Place, The Footlight, The Tank, the Verdi Square Arts Festival and Wild Project.Stephanie Gayle is the twice Pushcart Prize nominated author of the Thomas Lynch mystery series that begins with Idyll Threats. She is a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Bard College, where she was awarded the Carter Towbin Prize by the faculty of the Theater and Performance Department. She is a recipient of the 2017 Don Parker award for Excellence in Theater Performance awarded by Bard College.Įleanor Robb is a theater-maker, writer, and performer from Washington, DC now living in Ridgewood, Queens. She has performed with or shown works at Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, the Richard B Fisher Center for the Performing arts, New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater, and the CCS Hessel Museum of Art. She has collaborated with many artists/collectives such as David Levine, Lee Sunday Evans, Amanda Palmer, Waterwell, JoAnne Akalaitis, Geoff Sobelle, Church of the Millennials, and Stephen Karam. Kirsten Harvey is a Brooklyn based theater artist invested in performative lip-syncing, musical theater, Primadonna-ness, rigor, and perversity.
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