"Baker also tackles some of the broader issues of feminine beauty. There is an effective satiric montage of fake hair care advertisements which brings to light how it's not "just hair" for women. And Baker makes the painful admission that a 'beautiful outside is the key to a beautiful inside'...she brings us to a journey's end that feels earned..." |
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MY LIFE AS A BALD SOPRANO
A Musical Play In Three Acts...
LIMITED OFF-BROADWAY ENGAGEMENT
JUNE HAVOC THEATRE 312 W. 36th Street, NYC (JULY 20th-30th, 2008)
"My Life as a Bald Soprano...is...insightful in capturing Baker's personal experiences of having Alopecia, ..." -NYTheatre.Com
"...this play is one of the most powerful things I've seen and will rip your heart out. If you have a child or if you were a child that was 'different' than everyone else this play will not just speak to you, it will sing!"
-Jeff Woytovich (Chidren's Alopecia Project)
Directed By Andrew T. Carter Musical Direction By Clint J. Borzoni Produced By Margaret H. Baker
 Andrew T. Carter (Director) Originally from Canada, Andrew came to the USA in 1986 to continue his professional training as a modern dancer. He danced for throughout the East Coast and Canada, as well as producing his own choreography. He holds an undergraduate degree in dance from SUNY-Purchase,and an MFA in Theatre from Towson University. In 1991 he started combining theater and dance in various forms to create a moving theater. He soon established e/Motion Theatre to support his aesthetic which incorporates dance,theater, music and a variety of performer styles. His directing work has been seen in NYC, at The American Living Room @ HERE, the 42nd Street Collective,The Writers group (NYC), plus an acclaimed run at the Toronto Fringe Festival(Canada). Andrew has studied in Paris with Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil, and NYC-based artist Basil Twist on a project with Mabou Mines. He has taught workshops in the USA, Canada and South America, including at the Directors' Lab West symposium held in Pasadena (2007)  Margaret H. Baker (Producer, Playwright, Lyricist, Gretchen) began studying classical voice at the age of twelve in Washington DC. She continued her studies throughout her teens later enrolling in DePaul University’s School of Music. The following summer, Margaret made her professional stage debut in The Berkshire Opera Company’s production, of La Cenerentola. In 1998, Margaret relocated to New York where she worked as an Artist/Photography model to support her acting. Her latest project My Life as a Bald Soprano is her first full-length musical and most personal, as she returns to the stage playing herself as a young girl battling an auto-immune hairloss condition. Margaret would like to thank her friends, family, and collegues for supporting and believing in this work! (It means a great deal to be able to do what you love and impact people's lives in the process.) When she’s not acting, Margaret devotes much of her time as a Motivational Speaker raising awareness on behalf of people with disabilities. Margaret is a spokesperson and patron of The Children’s Alopecia Project and Alopecia UK. Her story has been featured on Vanity Insanity (Global), Extra, Lifetime, Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Inside Edition, New York Post, Marie Claire, Daily News, Self, and Woman's World.  Clint Borzoni (Composer/Musical Director) started studying music when he was sevenand wrote his first piece at the age of eleven. He has written over fortypieces, including a piano concerto, song cycle, percussion quartet, piece fororchestra, two string quartets, and several works for chamber orchestra. AmongBorzoni’s awards are the Morton Feldman Award, a New York Youth Symphonycommission, a world premiere by the Mannes School of Music's PercussionEnsemble, and the Maurice Liberman music scholarship. He received a B.A. andM.A. in Music Composition from CUNY where he studied with PulitzerPrize-winning composer David Del Tredici. He is currently working on an operascene for the American Opera Projects' Composers and the Voice Series. Clint isproud to have written the music for "My life as a Bald Soprano" andwould like to thank his mom and Gabe for their love and support.
 Gina Bonati (Alopecia Areata) Recently seen in Aaron Lehmann’s House of Women at Anthology Film Archives and in Silver Bullet Trailer at the Ohio. in1973 she made her professional acting debut in Robert Woodruff’s production of Brecht/Weill’s 3¢ Opera. She was a little bitty whore. She has played on stages from The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, Strindberg Intima Theatre in Stockholm, Instito de Belles Artes in Mexico City to garages and empty parking lots everywhere. Educated at Julliard in New York City, A.C.T. in sf and The National in London. Danced in companies,Kenneth King, Sally Silvers and Jane Comfort. Acted in theaters, The Magic,La Jolla, BAM, The Kitchen. Many Indie films and of course the requisite L&O. Under the direction of all sorts of geniuses including Gus Makris, Lee Grant, Doug Lenox, Jackson Gay, Nic Phillippou and Eliz Kemp. Sang in 2 art-rock bands, a couple of operas and various lounge acts and recordings. She studies voice for singing with Kristen Sorteberg and w/Patsy Rodenberg for acting. She is a poet & playwright with her play cantaloupe in debut at Fort Point Theatre Channel in Boston directed by Ronit Muszkatblit starring Richarda Abrams. She teaches acting privately at her kitchen table for very little money. Member of AEA, SAG, AFTRA and The Actors Studio.  Alika Hope (Tyra/Ensemble) was noted for her projection of “sauciness, humiliation, and sensuality” by Opera News and by The New Yorker for her “luminous aria.”Off-Broadway: Title role inPhilomel;The Emperor Jones, Medea in Corinth, Waking Kya. New York City: Babe in Pajama Game, Sharon in Master Class; Once on This Island, H.M.SPinafore, and Midsummer Night’s Dream.Other appearances include: Cincinnati Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia,Indiana Opera North, EWTN, CBS. She sang with the Chicago-area salsa band Sabor Latino and is a professional yodeler. A native of Portland,Oregon, she earned a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. from Columbia University. Kyle Minshew (Mirror) is excited to be a part of this amazing project! Previous credits include Off-Broadway: 8 Ways to meet Your Neighbor, The Poet's Opera, Callous Kingdom, Come Away, Pirates of Penzance, The Most Happy Fella and Kouros. Off-Off Broadway: Comedy Of Errors, Enough For All, Road to Freedom, The Brick and The Rose, The Three Sillies, Cinderella's Mice, Bippity Boppity Boo, Redemption, Exodus, That is The Question, Miss Nelson Is Missing, Miss Nelson has A Field Day, Axis and Bob on the Boardwalk. National Tours: A Christmas Carol, The Magic Flute and Die Fledermaus. Regional: That is the Question, Seven Deadly Sins,Age of Discovery, The Annunciation, Brooklyn, It's Only A Play, Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) and Bye Bye Birdie. Film/TV: Guiding Light, All My Children, Sex and The City, Law & Order and Dawson’s Creek.  Okema T. Moore (Ensemble) How do you successfully combine talent, intelligence, soul, joy, pain, music and theater? Just ask up and comer, Okema. She has been familiar with both the television studio as well as the recording studio since the age of 7. She has worked with such production legends as Eli Tubo of Erick B. & Rakim fame and Carvin Haggins (Touch of jazz, Jill Scott, and Musiq). Okema participated in many industry events in her late teens, including Jack the Rapper and How Can I Be Down. She toured with the Black Expo for two years and in recent years filmed two television pilots and played the lead role in the Brooklyn black stage play, “Why Black Men Date White Women.” She has had the privilege to perform with the likes of Musiq Soul Child, SWV and Joe. Most recent was her role as "Lovell Robinson" in a run of the TONY award winning stage play, DREAMGIRLS; directed by TONY award winner Ben Harney of the original cast, at the historic Lamb's Theater on Broadway. Okema has also completed her first movie; a supporting role in the hip-hop film Ex$pendable starring Terrell Hicks, comedian Michael Blacks on and Gary Sturgis. Most recently Okema played the lead role of Hadassah in the Gospel off-Broadway play Who Do You Love, taking over the lead from Mary Mary’s Ericka Campbell. She has completed another Gospel off-Broadway at the Roy Arias theater entitled Who is A Virtuous Woman; a play in the styling of For Colored Girls.
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