Golden sequined wristbands. Polka dotted dresses and hats. Mardi Gras masks. Sunday, February 7th was both a joyous School of HONK Mardi Gras “Fat Sunday” parade, and also the launch…
If it were my job to read poetry into a microphone more often, I would not be sad about that! I’m on at 24:00 and 40:00, reading excerpts from Thoreau’s journals,…
WHO WOULD BE KING presented by Liars and Believers at OBERON in Harvard Square November 5-22 ACCESSIBILITY: * Oberon is a wheelchair accessible venue. * All performances feature super-title captions ** Audio description will be…
Lukas and I gave a house concert in an art studio! Lukas and I met doing a theater piece together—Liars and Believers’s Americana “songplay” ICARUS—and quickly realized that we share a…
I’m delighted to be making my Huntington Theatre Company debut playing a variety of maids, patients, and 19th-century vaudeville girls in Ether Dome, a new historical drama (with many darkly…
Last Sunday, September 21st, I completed my second annual Ride for Food on behalf of Food For Free, the scrappy Cambridge nonprofit I work for part-time. We are an anti-hunger…
The beautiful music is written by Nathan Leigh, composer of the score for ICARUS.
Vinegar Tom was a special project, and those of us involved still talk about it as such. It’s on my mind now, as I recently attended Whistler in the Dark’s…
Many folks who know my background know that I trained in India for four months in classical dance-theater. It taught me precision of gesture and aliveness of eyes, which I…
My friend and colleague Danny Bryck has until March 28th to meet his Kickstarter funding goal—if you’re moved by this project, as I am, you can view the trailer, learn more, and contribute…
My Shakespeare/James Bond-inspired murder ballad is now available for download via Bandcamp. Enjoy! Find me on Photo credit: Daniel Chodusov under CC license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/)
I had the pleasure of playing the kickin’ 35Below wrap party for the Huntington Theatre Company’s VENUS IN FUR on Friday night. We played a jazzy-bluesy-slinky-loungey set with a freshly-minted and delightful lineup…
My niece Edith didn’t want to sit in the park and listen to me playing my guitar; SHE wanted to play. We solved this problem together: she slid herself under…
So I recently had an experience I never thought I’d have: I performed in a musical on 42nd Street in New York. Why did I never think I would have…
I recently collaborated with Brad Shur, Brenda Huggins, Phil Berman, Kaitee Tredway, and others under the direction of Roxanna Myhrum for an outdoor giant puppet show! Goldie, a Puppet Showplace…
I spent last weekend performing in the premiere of Icarus, a new songplay developed and presented by Liars and Believers. It was a real pleasure to perform this show, set in…
If you’ve been just waiting for the day when you could own a whole album of Shakespeare/James Bond mashup songs, recorded by sweet Boston local musicians…that day has come. My…
Enjoy these demos (vocals only, instead of the full arrangements) from Whistler’s January 2012 staged reading of Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom: Lyrics by Caryl Churchill; music composed and performed by Veronica Barron.
I recently made a new clown piece, and got the chance to test it out in front of two awesome inaugural audiences: a classroom full of adult English language learners…
You may think it’s a sweet lullaby…but then you listen to the verses… Tony Leva and I share a love of the Lead Belly tune “Good Night Irene”—in fact, I…
