Résumé
 

Awards/Select Groups


    Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award nominee: Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Funny Girl) [video]
    NJACT Perry Award nominee: Best Leading Actress in a Play (The Late Christopher Bean) [videos]
    All-State Choir (Virginia Moravek), Regional SSAA Choir (Emily Ellsworth)


Special Skills


    Cellist. Formal classical training since age 8. Can sightread music or learn by ear, arrange own part,
improvise bass lines, provide underscoring to others, and accompany self (sing and play simultaneously).


        Onstage/in character - solo or scene underscore (American Shakespeare Center, Powerhouse/NYSAF)


        Accompaniment (‘Seawife’ band, ASC in show and live preshow/interlude music; ‘Melancholy Play’; ‘Trojan Women’)


        Orchestra (section leader), Pit Orchestra (‘Cabaret’ at Vassar College), Chamber Music (Drew Univ., Stirling Duo)


    Instruments by ear:    Piano, penny whistle/recorder


    Educational Theater:  Happily capable & comfortable with children


        American Shakespeare Center workshop instructor (Embedded Stage Directions, Gender Roles), talkbacks


        Vital Theater Co.: “Think Pink!” workshop leader, class instructor, talkbacks / meet+greets,

                                        autograph/photo op.s, birthday parties


        Paper Mill Playhouse Theatre Conservatory: Junior Plus Division (ages 11-14): Administrative Intern,
Improv. Instructor


        Directed The Strollers’ Junior Production (ages 9-13) of “The Timid Dragon”


        Directed the Jewish Community Project’s 9th Annual Purim Shpiel (ages 8-11) of “The Whole Megillah” by Adam Spiegel & Dan Wolpow


    Directed Rori Nogee’s “Fragments” at Don’t Tell Mama,
                
Molière’s “The Would-Be Gentleman” at Culver City Public Theatre,
          and Katy Erin’s “The Cure to Mortality” at Hollywood Fringe Festival


    Deputy Music Director/Vocal Coach for “Trojan Women”, “Annabelle…”; arrangements in “SeaWife”, ASC


    Miscellany:    Valid driver’s license (CA), passport (US),
                         Bicyclist
(mountain bike/hybrid), swimmer (breast stroke/crawl/backstroke/diving),

                         Sight-singing, whistling, lip trills, nose harp, meowing;

                         Accents (English, Scottish, Russian, Yiddish Grandma, & more), voice impressions (e.g. “My Little Pony”),
                            Can sing 1-3 musical versions of most Lord of the Rings poems

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Blue

Height: 4’11”


Belt to F,

Legit to high C

EMC

Molly Gilman
molly@mollygilman.com

Regional Theater

Fan Scrooge/&c [promo vid]

Doo Wop Girl

Abby [video]

Urinetown: The Musical

Little Sally [video]

Sweeney Todd

Johanna

The Strollers

Once Upon a Mattress

The Minstrel [video]

JCC Musical Theatre Co. (Patrick Starega)

Necessary Targets

Zlata

Stage Right Theater Co. (Stacy Lawrence)

No Way to Treat a Lady

Sarah Stone [video]

Vassar College (Neil Worden)

“Vagina Workshop”

Vassar College (Anne Hathaway)

Largo Desolato

Lucy

Vassar College (Jesse Edward Rosbrow)

Melancholy Play

The Cellist (Julian)

Vassar College (Kelsey Egan)

Opera/Concerts/Revues

Supernumerary: Nibelung

Things That Float

Self (solo cabaret)

Self (headliner)

Don’t Tell Mama (Michael Martinez)

New Voices... ’99, ’00 & ’02

Featured soloist [video]

‘Marriage of Figaro’: Susanna

Vassar College

Original Cast Recordings

Paige [“Computer Duet”s]

Training

Academic

Conservatories

Acting

Scene Study/Monologue

Shakespeare

Film

Singing

Audition Technique

Dance

Vassar College, BA: Classics: Ancient Societies

American Theatre Wing’s SpringboardNYC 2006

            (musical theater, aud. technique, business)

Paper Mill Playhouse Summer Theatre Conservatory (’99, ’00, ’02)

           (musical theater, aud. technique, Shakespeare, dance, performance)

Vassar Powerhouse Theater & NY Stage and Film: Apprentice Program

           (musical theater, aud. technique, Shakespeare, dance, text analysis, perf.)

Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Senior Corps

           (Classical & contemporary: text analysis, voice, movement, performance)

Jake Berger (NJSF), Drew Cortese (NYSAF), Jim Warren (ASC)

Margie Haber Studio (L.A.) - instructor Annie Grindlay,

Michael Stork (NYSAF), J. Max Sullivan (TVI)

Ken Magos (current teacher: belt to F, strong mix, legit to high C)

Viviane Thomas & Drew Minter (bel canto: soubrette soprano)

Betsy Mackenzie-Stubbs (legit: solo & choral)

Khorikos singer

The Hotel Project

Receptionist

The Internationalists

She Loves Me

Ilona Ritter [video]

interAct Productions (Elizabeth Rogers)

Pinkalicious, Dr. Wink/Alison

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Maria

Twelfth Night

Fabian/Curio

The Duchess of Malfi

Grisolan/Pilgrim/Doctor

On Tour

Ms. Clancy (original role)

Voice Over

Lorna Liddell/Tweedledee [videos]

Wink/Al [“Pinkititis reprise”]

Mac (The Maker) (original role)

Molly

Queen [video] / Snowhite

Pillars of New York (world premiere)

Carrie (original role)

The Queen of Hearts [video]

Next Thing You Know (west.c. premiere)

Waverly (4/30 & 5/6) [videos]

Dr Colbert

Cattypuss [video]

Alice

Pinkalicious: The Musical
      (world premiere)

Dr. Wink/Alison (orig. role) [audio],

Pinkalicious [videos]

Sergeant/Grandmother

Off-Bway: Gorilla Rep (Sanderson)

Chorus (Polynoê), Hecuba u/s

Ariel

Katherina

Elmira [video]

“K-Mart”

Joy

Judy’s Dead (reading)

Middle Emily/Adult Judy

“Old-Fashioned Girl”/sketches

Storyteller: Boo at the Zoo

DR2 Theater; Bronx Zoo, Turtleback Zoo

Medic [videos]

NYC Theater

LA Theater

Cellist/Boy Percy/Abel/etc.