Acting.
As an actor, I have performed in academic and regional productions as well as numerous student projects, and readings of new works. I also have experience working on virtual readings, devised work, solo performance, and musical theatre. I was also a recipient of the 2021 Greer Garson Award for Acting at SMU.
Regional credits include Ellen in The Little Dog Laughed at Uptown Players, Callie in The Pleasure Trials at Amphibian Stage, A in JQA at Stage West, Poet One in Stage West and Moonrise Initiative’s devised production, In Search of the Sublime and numerous staged readings.
SMU credits include Bradley in Men on Boats, a company member in we the invisibles, Maggie in Snapshots, Thea in Spring Awakening, and a Player in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. In SMU’s New Visions, New Voices play festival, I read for SO in Noah James Heller’s Hope and Nemain in Andrew Horn’s The Hazards of Love.
Roles in student projects include Stacy in Gingerbread House and The Witch in Into the Woods. I also developed and performed a solo performance piece entitled two-point-nine percent investigating multiracial identity.
Production photo from "Shape" directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni. Photo by Matt Mrozek.
Production photo from "The Perisans," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Undermain Theatre. Photo by Paul Semrad.
Production photo from "The Pleasure Trials," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Amphibian Stage. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "In Search of the Sublime," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni and devised with the company with Moonrise Initiative, presented by Stage West Theatre. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "The Perisans," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Undermain Theatre. Photo by Paul Semrad.
Production photo from "The Pleasure Trials," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Amphibian Stage. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "JQA," directed by Emily Scott Banks, presented by Stage West Theatre. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "Shape" directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni. Photo by Matt Mrozek.
Production photo from "The Perisans," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Undermain Theatre. Photo by Rob Menzel.
Production photo from "The Pleasure Trials," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Amphibian Stage. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "The Perisans," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Undermain Theatre. Photo by Rob Menzel.
Production photo from "The Pleasure Trials," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Amphibian Stage. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "Shape" directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni. Photo by Matt Mrozek.
Production photo from "In Search of the Sublime," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni and devised with the company with Moonrise Initiative, presented by Stage West Theatre. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Promotional material from "The Pleasure Trials," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Amphibian Stage. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "The Pleasure Trials," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Amphibian Stage. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "The Perisans," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Undermain Theatre. Photo by Rob Menzel.
Production photo from "In Search of the Sublime," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni and devised with the company with Moonrise Initiative, presented by Stage West Theatre. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Promotional material for "In Search of the Sublime," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni and devised with the company. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "Shape" directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni. Photo by Matt Mrozek.
Production photo from "JQA," directed by Emily Scott Banks, presented by Stage West Theatre. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "In Search of the Sublime," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni and devised with the company with Moonrise Initiative, presented by Stage West Theatre. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "In Search of the Sublime," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni and devised with the company with Moonrise Initiative, presented by Stage West Theatre. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Promotional material for a student project of "You Are the Blood" by Ashley Rose Wellman, dir. Hayley Shipley. Photo by Hayley Shipley.
Promotional material from "JQA," directed by Emily Scott Banks, presented by Stage West Theatre. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Promotional material from "The Pleasure Trials," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni, presented by Amphibian Stage. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Promotional photo from a student project of "Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, directed by Sam Weber. Photo by Sam Weber.
Production photo from "JQA," directed by Emily Scott Banks, presented by Stage West Theatre. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Rehearsal photo from a student project of "Into the Woods" by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, directed by Sam Weber.
Promotional material from "JQA," directed by Emily Scott Banks, presented by Stage West Theatre. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Production photo from "In Search of the Sublime," directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni and devised with the company with Moonrise Initiative, presented by Stage West Theatre. Photo by Evan Michael Woods.
Rehearsal photo from "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" by Tom Stoppard, dir. Kara-Lynn Vaeni at Southern Methodist University. Photo by Mackeon Welch.
Videos
Mojdeh from How to Defend Yourself by Lily Padilla
Josie from Iron by Rona Munro