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Recent & Upcoming Doings
3.26.12 Worked once again doing live VO for the Fordham Founders Ball live at the Waldorf Astoria with Dr. Bill Baker!
3.15-3.19.12 Shot the film WHAT ABOUT US? In Atlanta, GA with Visigoth Picutres. Wonderful group, including Cassie Freeman, Jasmine Guy and directed by Deatra Harris and AD, Alrick Brown, who won at Sundance for KINYARWANDA.
2.22.12-3.4.12 Karen in RABBIT ISLAND in the Frigid Festival NYC frigidnewyork.info, Elephant Run Productions
Some Great Reviews in and we got extended!
Carrie Heitman’s Karen is a beautiful swirl of strong and weak, needy and independent, dominant and submissive. That Heitman can play it all so convincingly is astonishing – she truly reaches a place of raw emotion and lays bare the soul of this character. Rather than playing Karen as an overbearing harping shrew who then deflates when challenged she finds the inner core of her and elevates Karen to a much richer, complex individual–Karen Tortora-Lee, The Happiest Medium
Carrie Heitman’s Karen could have been a total bitch, and she’s called one by most of the other characters, but Heitman focuses on her desperate search for love rather than her surface bluster– David Sheward, Backstage
...”One major player is Alex’s girlfriend Karen (played by the hilarious, on-point, somebody-please-give-her-a-sitcom Carrie Heitman)–Weston Clay, Theatre Is Easy
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Elephant-Run-District-Opens-RABBIT-ISLAND-223-20120116
11.15.11 Reading of The Locust Song by Jerry Marsini at ART-NY.
11.9.11 Went in for NEXT FALL at Floridia Studio Rep & THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG for Capital Rep
9.17.11 Invited to train the Teaching Artists of PlayMakers Repertory Theatre
7.5.11 Taught the SAI Intstitute!
6.13.11 Invited to do a scene for Karen Kohlhaas‘ directing class at the Atlantic Theatre Company from Three Days of Rain…
6. 6.11 BOOKED AND SHOT a scene for the feature film, CONTRACTS, with Framework Films, directed by Oscar Nominee, Roni Ezra (Helmer & Son, 2007)…
6.10-12 FIGMENT PROJECT with Hand&Eye Theater Company. You Again?…http://figmentproject.org
6.2 & 6.5.11 Reader for Jack Doulin at NYTW for Page 73 Productions for their production of LIDLESS…
3.28.11 Live VO Event for Fordham University…Tenth Annual Founders Awards Dinner….MC Dr. Bill Baker!…Production Glue, LCC http://www.fordham.edu/alumni_relations/prescouncil/founders_11/
2.25.11 Developmental Reading of BATTLEAXES by BUSHRA LASKAR directed by Tracy Francis at New York Theatre Workshop…
Ancient History, by David Ives, directed by Stephanie Lynge (Beauty and the Beast). Had a fantastic time running around with Christopher Sutton (Spamalot) and seriously, its billed as a a screwball tragedy. That’s fun.
“As a playwright, David Ives is the inventor of what could be called stop-and-go comedies. A scene begins, then is interrupted by a bell or a buzzer, and the scene starts again, with the characters revising, rejecting or repeating what was said before. This approach can work with splendid comic precision, as it does in Mr. Ives’s one-act Sure Thing. The author uses a similar approach in his first full-length play, Ancient History‘ , a two-character comedy dealing with a couple who have been living together for six months. The play begins and ends in a bedroom. Ruth and Jack, start by convincing us of their similarities – as ”tall, thin, funny people” who adore each other – and gradually convince themselves of something else… ” –NY Times
Dates: Jan 20, 21 @ 7pm & Jan 22, 23 @ 2pm
Running time: 80 minutes
Location: 45th Street Theatre
354 West 45th St, (btwn:8/9 aves)
Tickets: $18 www.showclix.com
More info:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Ancient-History/141418559249612
“I had a fantastic time at the show. Really stellar work from everyone involved. I love David Ives’ writing to begin with — what you and the cast have done with it was really wonderful. Loved the performances — the direction was really fluid — gave the piece shape while completely feeling organic. Really engaging — funny and moving. Bravo to all”–Rob Hartman
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Recently appeared in My Sweet Charlie, directed by Jen Wineman!
LXP (David Roberts, Producer) presents MY SWEET CHARLIE, written by David Westheimer, at the June Havoc Theatre at The Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex, from October 7 – 24, 2010. The play is directed by JEN WINEMAN.
Featured in this AEA Approved Showcase Production are DEREGE HARDING*, Carrie Heitman*, Slate Holmgren*, LAUREN ORKUS* & RICHARD PAIT*. Set design is by Tim Brown, Lighting Design by Jesse Belsky, Costume Design by Melissa Trn & Sound Design by CHAD RAINES. BREE SHERRY* serves as Stage Manager.
MY SWEET CHARLIE, set during the height of the Civil Rights movement, is the story of Charlie Roberts, a black attorney & activist from New York City, who is falsely accused of cold-blooded murder during a demonstration in Alabama. Fleeing his would-be captors, Charlie escapes to a vacant coastal vacation home, where he encounters Marlene Chambers, a white, uneducated, prejudiced, unwed, pregnant teenager, shunned by her father & boyfriend & who sought refuge in the vacant home a few weeks before Charlie arrived. Realizing their survival depends upon their willingness to help each other, their relationship, at first defined by mutual contempt & deeply rooted racial prejudice, slowly evolves into a touching friendship.
DATES: October 7-24, Wed-Sat @ 7pm, Wed @ 11am & Sun @ 3pm
THEATRE: June Havoc Theatre ~ Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex
312 West 36th Street, 1st Floor
TICKETS: $18
RESERVATIONS: Brown Paper Tickets
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/128143
Closed The Ophelia Landscape with the Poiesis Theatre Project directed by Naum Panovski. Runs 4.22-5.9.10 at the Mark Morris Dance Center. Read a review at Broadwayworld.com
Featured in online commercial for Do It In Person with production company, And Now Media…5.4.10
Mock deposition work for NITA, National Institute for Trial Advocacy, the premier continuing legal education provider of trial skills and depositions, in association with Kirkland & Ellis LLP…5.6.10 & 5.7.10
Stanley Drama Award Reading at the Player’s Club of award winner, Richard Martin Hirsh’s…The Restoration of Sight…3.15.10
Recent reading with the Playwright’s Realm of a new play by Jen Silverman, directed by Katherine Kovner….Crane Story…at New Georges on 1.16.10
Recent reading of Jacob M Appel’s…The Replacement…at the Player’s Theatre directed by Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director of 59E59 Theaters on 1. 3.10
