ELIZABETH FINKLER

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Height:  5'6"           Hair:  auburn           Eyes:  blue    Voice:  mezzo-soprano     Union affiliations:  None

 

Show & date

Character

Theater

Director

A Christmas Carol, December 2008

Mrs. Fezziwig, Chestnut Vendor, Sick Woman

Easy Street Theatre

Becky Wilding

Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (first staged production), October 2008

Old Woman with Sickle

City College of San Francisco

David Parr

Romeo and Juliet, July 2008

Nurse

One for the Road

Kendrick Hough

Candide, February-March 2008

Queen of Eldorado, King Theodore, Minister, Ensemble

Virago Theatre

Laura Lundy-Paine

Dionysus (world premiere), August 2007

Maenad #7

Goat Hall Productions

Steven Clark (also composer)

The Merry Widow, May-June 2007

Praskowia

West Bay Opera

Yefim Mazel

The Hound of the Baskervilles, March 2007

Mrs. Barrymore

Santa Clara Players

Ana-Catrina Buchser

The Caucasian Chalk Circle, August 2006

Agronomist Kato/ Servant/ Corporal/ Neighbor

Dragon Productions

Ana-Catrina Buchser

The Little Theater’s Production of “Hamlet”, May 2006

Bettylou Sammons

Santa Clara Players

Rebecca Longworth

The Haunting of Hill House, April 2006

Mrs. Montague

Easy Street Theater Company

Becky Wilding

Bat Boy, August-September 2005

Ensemble

Western Stage

 

Man of La Mancha, January 2005

Housekeeper/ Maria

Easy Street Theater Company

Becky Wilding-Olson

Funny Girl, April 2004

Mrs. O’Malley

Broadway by the Bay

Evan Pappas

“Fall Feast”:  Writes and Rewrites and Shoe, October 2003

Belle (Writes), Claudia (Shoe)

Not Quite Opera

Ann Nygren Doherty

Sweeney Todd,  August 2003

Ensemble

Alameda Civic Light Opera

 

Fresh Voices IV:  Animal Opera, June 2003

Squealer

Goat Hall Productions

Mark Alburger (also composer)

The Mikado (staged concert performance), June 2003

Pitti-Sing

Redwood Symphony

Ken Malucci

One Touch of Venus, May 2003

Mrs. Kramer

City College of San Francisco Theatre

David Ostwald

Candide, October-November 2002

The Old Lady

Goat Hall Productions

Harriet March Page

Fresh Voices III:  The Bald Soprano and San Francisco’s Burning!, June 2002

Mrs. Martin (Soprano), Countess of Barth Malone(SFB)

Goat Hall Productions

Harriet March Page

Aspects of Love, April 2002

Hotel Clerk, Ensemble

Palo Alto Players

Mike Ward

Candide, June-July 2000

The Old Lady

Monterey Opera Association

Sid Cato

Hansel and Gretel, November 2001, December 1999, December 1998

Mother

Bay Shore Lyric Opera

Liliane Cromer

Madama Butterfly, April-May and August, 2000

Mother of Cio-Cio-San

Bay Shore Lyric Opera

Licia Albanese and Liliane Cromer

Lady in the Dark, June 1999

Miss Foster/ Sutton

City College of San Francisco Theatre

Mike Ward

 

Film:  “Connections,” Spring 2007, UC Santa Cruz; Rebecca Stern, director

 

Television:  “The World’s Amazing Stories” (Japan), extra.

 

Special skills:  Singing (classical and jazz), play trombone (badly), dancing in a gorilla suit, bicycling.

 

Training:  The Voice Factory, Independent Eye, Janet Steen Campbell (voice), Michael Taylor (voice)