Molly Gilman
molly@mollygilman.com
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 4'11"
Belt to F
Legit to high C
Next Thing You Know (west coast premiere)
Alice in Wonderland (U.S. premiere)
Pillars of New York (world premiere)
The Adventures of Holly and Snowflake
Absolutely Halloween
Alice and the Wonderful Tea Party
All About Santa
Annabelle and the Snow Queen Express
Dorothy's Adventures in Oz
Drempels
Snowhite
Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award nominee:
Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Funny Girl)
NJACT Perry Award nominee:
Best Leading Actress in a Play (The Late Christopher Bean)
All-State Choir (conductor Virginia Moravek), Regional SSAA Choir (Emily Ellsworth)
Cellist. Formal classical training since age 8. Can sightread or learn by ear, arrange own part, improvise, bass lines, underscore, and accompany self while singing.
Onstage/in character - solo or scene underscore (American Shakespeare Center, Powerhouse/NYSAF)
Accompaniment ('Seawife' band, ASC in show and live preshow/interlude; 'Melancholy Play'; 'Trojan Women')
Orchestra (section leader, select groups), Pit Orchestra ('Cabaret' at Vassar College, 'Little Women' at Holmdel Theatre Co.), Chamber Music (Drew Univ., Stirling Duo)
Other instruments: guitar (rudimentary), piano (by ear & some chord tabs), recorder/penny whistle (by ear)
Educational theater:
American Shakespeare Center workshop instructor ('Embedded Stage Directions', 'Gender Roles'), talkbacks
Vital Theatre Co.: "Think Pink!" workshops, class instructor, talkbacks/meetgreets, autograph/photo op.s, birthdays
Paper Mill Playhouse Summer Theater Conservatory: Junior Plus division (ages 11-14): Admin. intern, improv. teacher
SuperKidz Kamp theater instructor
Directed The Strollers' junior production (ages 9-13) of "The Timid Dragon"
Directed the Jewish Community Project's 9th Annual Purim Spiel (ages 8-11): "The Whole Megillah" (Spiegel/Wolpow)
Directed Rori Nogee's "Fragments" at Don't Tell Mama, Molière's "The Would-Be Gentleman" at Culver City Public Theater, and Katy Erin's "The Cure to Mortality" at Hollywood Fringe Festival
Deputy Music Director/Vocal Coach/Arranger for "Trojan Women", Santa Monica Playhouse, "SeaWife", ASC
Graphic Designer (See: SAMPLES in Photo gallery), website design: MG.com, TommyJamerson.com
Accents; Voices: North American "Neutral", Brooklyn, English RP, English Yorkshire, French, German; Child, Hyper Child, Elder (fry), Goblin/Imp, Scary Low, Donald Duck
Misc: Valid driver's license, passport; bicyclist (mountain/hybrid), swimmer (breast stroke/crawl/backstroke/diving), sight-singing, whistling, lip trills, nose harp, meowing; can turn hands into a dragon; can sing 1-3 musical versions of most 'Lord of the Rings' poems
Ms Clancy (orig. role)
Doctor/Grisolan
Maria
Fabian
Pinkalicious, Wink/Al swing
Dr Wink [Pinkatitis & Reprise]
Paige [Computer Duets]
Oddbird Theatricals: 3rd St Thtr (R Israel)
Rapidfire International: El Portal Theater
Write Act Repertory (Jim Blanchette)
Sierra Madre Playhouse (D. Wicks La Puma)
Dancing Squirrel Productions (Harker)
Santa Monica Playhouse (Evelyn Rudie)
Santa Monica Playhouse (Evelyn Rudie)
Santa Monica Playhouse (Evelyn Rudie)
Santa Monica Playhouse (Evelyn Rudie)
Santa Monica Playhouse (Evelyn Rudie)
Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck
The Internationalists
Summit Playhouse (Frank Licato)
JCC Theatre Co. (Patrick Starega)
Stage Right Theater Co.
Vassar College (Neil Worden)
Vassar College (Anne Hathaway)
Vassar College (Jesse Edward Rosbrow)
Vassar College (Kelsey Egan)
NEW YORK THEATER
American Shakespeare Center: professional acting apprentice
(classical text analysis, original staging conditions, embedded stage directions)
American Theatre Wing's SpringboardNYC
(musical theater, audition technique, business/management)
Paper Mill Playhouse Summer Theatre Conservatory
(musical theater, audition workshop, dance, performance)
Vassar College & NY Stage and Film Powerhouse Theater
(musical theater, Shakespeare, audition technique, dance, text analysis, performance)
Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Senior Corps
(Classical & contemporary text analysis, voice, movement, performance)
Alaine Alldaffer, Tom Rowan (TVI); Neil Worden (VC), Emily Zacharias
Jake Berger (SToNJ), Drew Cortese (NYSAF), Jim Warren (ASC)
Annie Grindlay (Margie Haber Studio - LA); Michael Stork (NYSAF), J. Max Sullivan (TVI)
Ken Magos (belt to F, strong mix, legit to high C)
Viviane Thomas (bel canto: soubrette soprano)
Betsy Mackenzie-Stubbs (legit solo & choral)
Diane Foster, RaShawn Holloway, Abby Saxon, Kathy Wildberger
LA THEATER
TOURING
Guys & Dolls
A Christmas Carol
The Hotel Project
She Loves Me
You Can't Take It With You
The Late Christopher Bean
Urinetown: The Musical
Sweeney Todd
Once Upon a Mattress
Necessary Targets
No Way to Treat a Lady
Largo Desolato
Melancholy Play
REGIONAL
OPERA/CONCERTS/REVUES
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDINGS
Academic
Conservatories
TRAINING
Monolog/Scene Study
Shakespeare
Film
Acting
Awards/Select Groups
Singing
Workshops/AudTech
Voice Over
Dance
SPECIAL SKILLS
Off-Off-Broadway
Wink/Alison (orig. role), Pinkalicious
Dr. Marlena Kellsberg
Justine Moritz / Innkeeper's Wife
Sergeant/Grandmother
Off-Broadway
VOICE ACTING