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…
In this whirlwind three-week development workshop to launch New Exhibition Room‘s new project, EEP! Show, eight adults and one awesome ten-year-old joined forces to investigate the broad themes of women…
I designed this deck of promotional cards for Food For Free, a small food rescue nonprofit where I serve as part-time Administrative and Events Coordinator. The design challenge here was…
I recently composed and performed music for Caryl Churchill’s Vinegar Tom, presented by Whistler in the Dark at the Boston Center for the Arts. (Listen to music samples here!) It’s “a play…
Another show for Winning Higgins’s Love, a clown tragedy co-created and performed by my collaborative cohort-in-crime Aimee Rose Ranger and me. We’ve been fortunate enough to present this piece at…
I performed a short piece at the debut installment of The Encyclopedia Show Somerville, a monthly themed variety show produced by Simone Beaubien and The Boston Poetry Slam and co-hosted…
Brown Box‘s second annual free outdoor production played a two-week tour in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Delaware. What a pleasure to perform with such a great cast on such a beautiful…
I spent a wonderful two weeks teaching Shakespeare to 10-15 year old campers at Peter Gould‘s Get Thee To The Funnery! camp at the New England Youth Theatre. My marvelous co-teachers were Jonny…
I drew this cover for Open Stories Project (formerly Big Class Boston). The book contains stories written by seventeen students from Brooke Charter School and a matching number of adult artists. I…
February and March have included some exciting new flavors of projects for me. On February 24th, 2012, I performed as a voice in Matt Samolis’s experimental music/sound/text piece Painting White Shadows, performing…
In March, I had fun working with video for the first time in support of Simple Machine’s rogerandtom, running March 30-April 7. I shot and edited two promotional videos, which you can watch right here: Simple…
I taught a master class, “Imagery in the Body”, for CHIMERAlab Dance Theater, drawn from the work of Jerzy Grotowski (via Elaine vaan Hogue) and Jon Lipsky. The class included an introduction…
I sang on the radio supporting my friend Molly Allis on WMBR’s local music show Pipeline! I was singing on the radio! I have clearly arrived. We played a lovely, stripped down…
January 9-21, 2012 I’m teaching a movement intensive at the Puppet Showplace Theater titled Body Puppetry and Bharatanatyam, which utilizes storytelling tools derived from the classical South Indian dance-theater form in…
Shakespeare, unrehearsed: the stuff of actors’ nightmares? Or wicked fun? I spent a whirlwind weekend in Brattleboro, VT at the New England Youth Theater, where young adult alums of their excellent youth…
Winning Higgins’s Love: A Clown Tragedy from Veronica Barron on Vimeo.
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