PROFILES: GRADUATE ACTORS

Emily Bennett

Special Skills
Singing, 3 years classical training as soprano; Stage Combat (BASSC); Elizabethan and Restoration dance training as well as basic ballet, tap, flamenco, jazz, and country line dancing; Winner of conservatoire-wide poetry writing competition in 2004; Suzuki training from direct students of Tadashi Suzuki; Accents; Clean US driving licence; Can sneeze on cue

Previous Experience
The Aquila Theatre Company NYC, National tour: Ophelia in Hamlet, Agnes /Cynthia in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, also taught theatre workshops at universities across the US; The Crabpot Players: Directed I Ought to Be In Pictures, Alex in Auburn Bliss, Stage Manager in Our Town, Rose inThe Woolgatherer, The Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz, Bobbie in Last of the Red Hot Lovers; The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities: Celia in Hatful of Rain, Anne in All My Sons, Emma inWaterbabies, Daysi in The Winged Man, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The University of South Carolina: Joyce in Topgirls, Fanny in On the Verge, Betty in Landscape of the Body, Priest in Mad Forrest, Elizabeth in Sorrows of Stephen, Forrester/Guard in As You Like It

Special Interests
Travel, golf, writing poetry, film, swimming and billiards