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More About Ellen
A Note on the Background Image (on Left).
This bust of Shakespeare, with graffiti that reads, 'I [heart] Ellen' actually exists in Boston's Chinatown, and is not a product of our Photoshop Age. No one I know has confessed to writing it, so I take it as a Sign from the Universe.
Blog.
I am keeping a blog about my experiences on tour with the American Shakespeare Center. What it may lack in timeliness it makes up for in verbosity, and it is titled, in correspondence with this claim, Bardolatry: True Confessions of a Shakespeare Nerd (A Shakespearean Actor's Life on Tour).
Ellen's Role Wish List.
or, All I Want for Christmas is to Play Rosalind
Note to Santa: As I have grouped characters by the same playwright together, these are not listed in absolute order. As I have, however, listed them more or less in order of which they occured to me, there is an approximate precedence. There are , naturally, plenty of roles I would like to play that are not on this list, but these are the ones that I will be very sad if I do not play before I die. (You can bet that almost any part by any of the playwrights on this list are in the unlisted-yet-desirable category.) Also, I have not listed roles that I won't really be able to play until later in life, so you can save a few contracts to drop down the chimney until later.
- Rosalind, As You Like It (Mr. Shakespeare)
- Isabella, Measure for Measure (Mr. Shakespeare)
- Helena, All's Well that Ends Well (Mr. Shakespeare)
- Margaret, Henry Sixes (Mr. Shakespeare)
- Hypatia, Misalliance (George Bernard Shaw)
- Joan, Saint Joan (Mr. Shaw)
- Dierdre, Dierdre of the Sorrows (John Millington Synge)
- Pegeen Mike, The Playboy of the Western World (Mr. Synge)
- Mabel Chiltern, An Ideal Husband (Oscar Wilde)
- Cecily and/or Gwendolyn, The Importance of Being Earnest (Mr. Wilde)
- Maire, Translations (Brian Friel)
- Lisa, Collected Stories (Donald Margulies)
- Laura, The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)
- Nina, The Seagull (Anton Chekhov)
- Sonya, Uncle Vanya (M. Chekhov)
- Dorine, Tartuffe (M. Moliere)
- Julia, The Rivals (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
- Ruth, And Baby Makes Seven (Paula Vogel)
- Elizabeth, Pride and Prejudice (I'm not picky about the adaptation; I'm simply properly from the early nineteenth century, and thus am custom-made to play people from Jane Austen's world, if I am made to play any, ever)
Parts I'd Like to Play for an All-Female Shakespeare Company
or, Parts I May Never Feasibly Get to Play
- Hal, Henry Fours, and/or Henry, Henry the Fifth
- Troilus, Troilus and Cressida
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