NEED Profiles: Anabel Graetz

THEATRE

- Sailors' Lives and Sailors' Lives (Mary Carpenter, Mary Kearney, Lucy German) - Thru 9/1/07

- Consent, Bay Colony Productions (Defense Lawyer)

- Plays Written Yesterday, Fusionworks (Directed)
- Pas de Deux by Stephen Reinstein

- Mantangler, Workshop Production (Nurse)

- The Women by Claire Booth Luce; Directed by Marianne Phinney (Mrs. Morehead) Needham Community Theatre

- Heroic & Outrageous Women - Solo Performance - Women of 1830 - 1930 speak to us through the songs they sang, the speeches, letters and journals they wrote.

- Women, Boston & the Songs That Were So Dear - Solo Performance -- American popular song during the nineteenth century and how it reflects joy, anger, loves and righteous indignation of 19th Century women.

- Tidebook by Dillon Bustin Created the role of Nancy Luce - Performances in Boston, Plymouth, MA and on Martha's Vineyard. Playwrights Quadrangle weekend of Short Plays

- The Test by Paul Kahn (Principal Role: Mrs. Nash)

- The Woman with No Nose by Joe Byers (Principal Role: Mrs. Veneer) SlamBoston Evening of Ten Minute Plays repeat appearances:

- Penn Station, by Pennell Somsen (Shopper, Homeless Woman+)

- The Kiss, by Mark Harvey Levine (Director)

- Agent Jane by J R Boyles (Director); Everywoman, New Works Winter Festival (Director) Acme Theatre, Maynard, MA.

- Agent Jane by J R Boyles (Director) Herring Run ArtsFest; evening of short plays (September, 2002):

- Searching Paradise by Yale Wong, Directed by Jane O'Reilly (Female Lead, Lillian)

- Insomnia by Pat Gabridge, directed by Jane Caplan (Female Lead, Mary)

FILM & TV

- Mysterious Journeys, The Travel Channel Rebecca Nurse

- Who Shall Be Called, Longyear Museum, Film Extra

- Exorcism, Engel Entertainment, History Channel, Georgia Manukas, Director Grandmother

- Absolute Trust, NYC, Harvey Mandlin, Mandlin Films Extra

OTHER

- Boston University School of Medicine, Standardized Patient Mary Johnson (Dementia) - Improvisational gig at teaching hospital.

- Haunted City, Salem, MA:

- My Three Poppets, Witch House Principal Character/Story Teller

MUSIC/MUSIC THEATRE

- The Proper Ladies - Principal Singer, Artistic Director; Songs and parlor ballads of the nineteenth century performed in a-cappella arrangements by an outstanding duo. Appearances available on request.

- Festival of Light & Song Creator, Artistic Director, Principal Singer - Created and directed a fully staged Winter Holiday Fantasy/musical production featuring a cast of up to 30 singers and actors. Both children and adults performed in this production that featured audience participation, acappella song, fantastical creatures and exciting and original lighting effects. The production was staged annually in December in downtown Boston for ten seasons.

- A Midwinter Feast - Radio Broadcast Creator, Director, Principal Singer, Narrator - National Broadcast -- 1991

- Anabel & Wild Rose - A-cappella ensemble that performed music from many cultures in the U.S. and Europe.

- The Bawdy Ladies Soloist, co-creator

- Laduvane Principal Singer, Director - A women's ensemble that performed traditional a-cappella song from Eastern Europe and the Balkan countries.

- A cappella & Classical Song Concerts - Solo Performance - Cambridge Center for Adult Education; The Omaha Jewish Community Center; The American Club, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Simmons College, Harvard University.

TEACHING:

Voice Teacher: Private lessons, classes and workshops for non-singers and beginning to advanced singers in Vocal Techniques; Bel Canto, Balkan and Folk vocal styles, Ensemble Techniques and Harmony Improvisation. These workshops have been presented for organizations and festivals throughout the United States and Canada including The School at the Music Emporium, Cambridge, MA; New England Conservatory of Music; Goddard College; The University of Wisconsin; McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA.; the Vancouver Folk Festival; The Eisteddfod and the Flower Carol Dulcimer Festival. Private students have included Patty Larkin, Roger Rosen and Freyda Epstein.

Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Created and taught the perennially popular class Song for Non Singers as well as Basic Vocal Techniques, Extend Your Voice, Rounds, Drones & Chords, Performance Techniques and The Happy Birthday Seminar.

TRAINING & RESEARCH

Fulbright Scholar 1986-87: researched Vocal techniques in Bulgaria; informal work in France and Yugoslavia

BFA -Theatre: Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts.

Music: The Higher Institute for Musical Studies, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; The Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY; The Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA.

Voice: Lorraine DiGregorio, Olga Averino, Mdme. Emilia Ippolito -- Boston, MA.; Antonia LaVanne -- NYC; Anka Koushleva, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Antonia LaVanne, New York, NY. Coaches include William Merrill, Jean Russak and Paul Meyer.

Acting: Performance techniques with Eloise Ristad and Chloe Owen. Acting with Ted Kasanoff and Lloyd Richards. Commercials with Tom Kemp. On Camera with Peter Kelley.

Publications:

BLACK SHEEP REVIEW 1983 - 84: Wrote regular column Sing Your Song for this folk publication.

SING OUT! Magazine 1978: Your Voice and How to Love it Article on vocal technique for folk singers.

THE LADUVANE SONG BOOK: Editor of a collection of Balkan Songs.

SPECIAL TALENTS

Languages: Speak: Bulgarian, French. Sing in over twenty languages and dialects including Bulgarian, French, Russian, Ladino, Hebrew, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Yiddish, Spanish and Latin.

MISCELLANEOUS

Other Interests: Extensive Costume Collection, Folk Dance, Cook, Garden, Cats, Travel, Photography, Computer Publications and Databases, Bicycle, Create Bead Jewelry.