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- Dec 30, 11
- Dec 13, 11
I am currently working on my Polish accent for Yentl! Rehearsals start this Thursday 12-15-2011. Can't wait!
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/156273-Pop-Goes-the-Torah-Yentl-Will-Get...
- Dec 12, 11
These pictures show us working in Miami with the ASL shadow interpreters for the deaf community. Please visit South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center for more information. It was so inspiring and beautiful and I will never forget it. Thankful.
- Dec 12, 11
Once in a Lifetime at the Asolo Repertory Theater directed by Mark Rucker.
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Gretchen Porro
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Ht:5’5” Wt: 115 Eyes: Brown Hair: Blonde STAGEYentl Ensemble/Yentl U/S Asolo Repertory Theater Gordon Greenburg Once In a Lifetime Miss Chasen/Ensemble/May U/S Asolo Repertory Theater Mark Rucker Hamlet Redux Gertrude Asolo New Stages Tour Dmitry Troyanovsky Ghosts Regina Banyan Theater Company Gil Lazier Hearts Evelyn U/S Asolo Repertory Theater Greg Leaming Perfume Shop Customer U/S Asolo Repertory Theater Peter Amster Life of Galileo Company U/S Asolo Repertory Theater Michael Edwards Jane Eyre Helen/Adele Gorilla Theater Nancy Cole Blind Love Tabitha Dalliance Theater Company Andy Ottoson The Crucible Betty Parris Cinn. Playhouse /St. Louis Rep Steve Woolf Kaleidoscope Ensemble International Fringe Festival Beverly Blanchette UNIVERSITY THEATERReasons to Be Pretty Steph FSU/Asolo Conservatory Barbara Redmond Two Gentlemen of Verona Lance FSU/Asolo Conservatory Greg Leaming Tartuffe Flipote/Loyal FSU/Asolo Conservatory Wes Grantom A Piece of My Heart Sissy Webster University Emma Griffin Lysistrata Myhrine Webster University Doug Finlayson
FILMThe Daughter Daughter New York Film Academy Stefano Girolimetto Chasing Dragons Kim Webster University Doug Finlayson
TRAININGMFA in Acting FSU/Asolo Theater Conservatory for acting training- Greg Leaming, Barbara Redmond, Andrei Malaev-Babel, Margaret Eginton, Patricia DeloreyLondon Study- Patsy Rodenburg, Charmian Hoare, Mark WheatleyFilm training- Ross Meyerson from Tucker/Meyerson Casting Webster UniversityB.F.A. Degree,-Steve Woolf, Kathleen Singleton, Gary Glasgow, Bruce Longworth, Christopher Gurr, Guy Molnar, Liz Shipman, Debra Simpson, Doug FinlaysonUpright Citizens Brigade Theater-Gavin SpeillerWorkshops- Frank Galati, Patrick Stuart, Faye Dunaway, Ben Vereen, Roy Hart Theater, Stage Combat with Robert Westley, Bill BowersSPECIAL SKILLSFencing, Dialects- (Stage Standard, Standard British, Irish, Polish, Russian, Southern, Cockney), Basic gymnastics, basic clowning, yoga, sailing, quarter trick, animal sounds, Improvisation, comedyAWARDSCritic Choice Winner by Sarasota Magazine for a performance: Reasons to be Pretty and Two Gentlemen of Verona 2010-2011National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts- Honorable Mention- 2000-2001
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Gertrude in Asolo’s New Stage Series of Hamlet Redux
click to see more! Pictures of our shadow performance with American Sign Language Interpreters From Miami- Dade included.
Steph in Reasons to Be Pretty. Picture with Tony Stopperan
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Gretchen as Betty Parries in the the Crucible at the St. Louis Rep and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
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Reviews
Sarasota Magizine-Critics Choice for-
"There are several this season, starting with their production of Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty, a scorcher with a knockout performance by Gretchen Porro as a woman scorned. (Porro also impressed in a very different role, the usually male clown Lance in The Two Gentlemen of Verona)."
Tartufee
Pelican Press
“Gretchen Porro delivers as both Flipote and M. Loyal"
”http://stage.www.pelicanpressonline.com/afterhours/theaterreview/120785829.html
Ticket Sarasota
“Gretchen Porro is fun as an obnoxious court officer.”
http://www.ticketsarasota.com/2011-04-14/section/arts/review-tartuffe-still-makes-a-funny-point/
Reasons to be Pretty
Sarasota Magazine-
“Reasons to be pretty opens with a torrent of anger and obscenity, pouring forth from Steph (Gretchen Porro, in a knockout performance)”
www.sarasotamagazine.com/Blogs/On-Stage/reasons-to-be-pretty.aspx
Sarasota Herald Tribune
“There’s a wonderful shifting of attitude – we hate him, we hate her, we hate him again – toward the two characters through the play”
Total Theater
“Not only Gretchen Porro's vocal explosions are a marvel. So is her transformation as Steph from even less than "ordinary" looking and shrewish to handsome and more self aware.”
http://totaltheater.radiobigtime.com/?q=node/3694
“Even though she seems over the top, Gretchen Porro really makes you feel Steph’s pain from Greg’s words, and she makes you realize there’s a lot more behind her reactions.”
http://aande.blogs.heraldtribune.com/13758/labute’s-play-is-‘pretty’-powerful/
Long Boat Key Happenings
"There is a lot of anger in this play. Steph expresses her anger in loud screaming and as filthy language as
she can think up. Her temper is monumental. And yet, Porro expresses Steph’s anger very well."
http://www.lbknews.com/inprint/pdfs/012111P17.pdf
Pelican Press
“Gretchen Porro plays the challenging role of Steph, the girlfriend. She is sympathetic and repulsive, understandable and pathetic.” http://stage.www.pelicanpressonline.com/afterhours/theaterreview/113366154.html
Two Gentlemen of Verona Gretchen Porro as Lance
Sarasota Magazine
“A lot of the fun comes from the usual suspects, the servants: Speed (Jake Staley, fittingly equipped with a skateboard) and Lance (played in a delightful change of pace by Gretchen Porro, aided by the lovable dog Roscoe as Crab).”
http://www.sarasotamagazine.com/Blogs/On-Stage/Two-Gentlemen-of-Verona.aspx
Sarasota Herald Tribune
“Roscoe, one of three dogs featured in the role of Crab, brought out the best of his co-star, actress Gretchen Porro, who barely blinked and used his unexpected barking to add humor to her already funny monologues.”
http://aande.blogs.heraldtribune.com/13296/review-modern-gentlemen-get-laughs-at-asolo-conservatory/
Total Theater
"the clown Lance (off-beat, unflappable Gretchen Porro) with faithful dog Crab (played with distinction by Roscoe on opening night) steal the show. Porro not only puts over some difficult parody and supplies comic relief when things look chancey for the heroines. She also adapts Crab's behavior to their relationship and her lines."
http://totaltheater.radiobigtime.com/?q=node/3662
Ibsen’s Ghosts at the Banyan Theater Company June 2010
“Gretchen Porro is tiptop as the uppity housemaid Regina.”
“The cast also includes some tender, emotionally honest performances from Gordon Myles Woods as Osvald, a young painter who has returned home to shocking discoveries; Gretchen Porro as the household maid Regina, who falls for Osvald; and Steven Clark Pachosa as Regina’s father, who some look on as a scoundrel but who may actually be the play’s most upright character.”
-Sarasota’s Herald Tribune
http://aande.blogs.heraldtribune.com/12510/review-banyan-opens-season-with-gripping-ghosts/
“Gretchen Porro plays Regina, the maid who’s really the sister. She plays it straight. Not oversexed—just sexed. A typical teenager in a bad time and place to be a teenager.”
-Critic on the Run
http://sarasotacritic.blogspot.com/2010/07/ghosts.html
Jane Eyre at the Gorilla Theater
“Gretchen Porro is enchanting as Adele, the French-speaking girl whom Jane is hired to look after.”
The Tampa Creative Loafing
http://cltampa.com/tampa/the-madwoman-in-the-attic/Content?oid=2028494
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Friends and Colleagues
- FriendsRyan Nance 5thingsilearnedtoday.comKatie Cunningham- actressFranchesca Leigh Ramsey- designer, blogger, youtube starLuke Bartholomew- actorValerie Boucvalt- actressTim Seib- Director/actorMishal Moore- singerBenjamin Boucvalt- actor/fight choreographerOrganizations/FunA Special Thanks-to my teachers, in class and in life. You know who you are and without you this would not be possible. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.a special shout out to Benjamin Boucvalt for snapping my pictures.thank you, family and Brutus the pug dog. to the moon.
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About me
"Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes and make it possible"
- t.s. elliot
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Hello World!
I am an actress/improver. And my favorite thing in the whole wide world is to be a part of an ensemble.
