sarah scanlon
actor. intimacy director. aerialist. musician. movement. make-up.
and combinations thereof.
stats
resume
eyes: green
hair: brown
5'3" 110 lbs
mezzo/alto
theatre
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Deckchairs
Captain Steve's Caring Kingdom
The Tempest
Tails Eats Snake Part Deux
Soon I Will Be Invincible
Blue Planet
The Aurora Project
The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen
L'Imbecile
The Dead Prince
Pippi's Lost Stockings
Facing Angela
Witness to an Accident
Ping Pong
Peter Pan's Shadow: Foreverland
Goodbye, Cruel World
Spirit Play
Diary of Anne Frank
The Dream Journal of Dr. Jekyll
Jenny&Jenni
The Last Daughter of Oedipus
The Ring Cycle
Hey! Mr. Spaceman!
Last of My Species
Broken Fences
Crusible the Musible
Wings of Desire
Betty's Summer Vacation
Zoya's Apartment
Ellis Island: The Dream of America
Marquis/Secretary U/S
percussionist/live foly
Allamis
Ariel
Lorainee/Stacy
Elphin
Hulda
Gatekeeper
Mrs. Harrison
percussionist/live foly
Sallie
Mr. Neilson
Make-up and mask design
Lilian
Make-up design
Mermaid
Musician/Foley Artist
Female understudy
Anne/Margot (u/s)
Eve
Lisa/Sherkah
Antigone/Megira
Rhinemaiden/others
Zilla
Cymbal Hat Army
Becky
Burning witch/ensemble
Marion (u/s)
Trudy
Maria Nikoforovna
Helen Rosenthal
Lifeline Theatre Company
The Conspirators
Factory Theater
Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival
The Side Project
Lifeline Theatre Company
Akvavit Theatre
Otherworld Theatre
Strange Tree Group/NY Fringe Festival
Babes with Blades
Strange Tree Group
Akvavit Theatre
The Rukus
Polarity Ensemble Theatre
The Nine
Dream Theater
Strange Tree Group
Strange Tree Group
Metropolis Performing Arts
The Mammals
Factory Theater
Babes with Blades
The Building Stage
Strange Tree Group
Redmoon
Chicago Dramatists
Strange Tree Group
American Repertory Theatre
ART Institute
MXAT, Moscow RU
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Artistic Associate with The Strange Tree Group
Various collaborations with the Noah Ginex Puppet Company
Stage Combat: hand to hand, rapier, quarterstaff, found objects
Dialects
Her Majesty's Will, assistant director; Lifeline Theatre
The Opportunities of Extinction, intimacy designer; Broken Nose Theatre
Dinner Of Our Discontent, co-director; Aloft Circus Arts
on-camera
Chicago Fire; Carley Hamilton (s5e11, s5e12)
American Girl
Hello Fresh
Ralph's World; Ronnie
Weber Grill
Saputo Cheese
SunPower Equinox
YouFit
Advocate Health Care
Kenmore; Principal
The Scarlet Line (1 episode)
Bacon: The Cure-All
Sanford Brown Colleg
World's Worst Musical; Pirate/Pig/Ensemble (3 episodes)
AT&T U-Verse
Dave and Buster's
NBC Universal
Commercial
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Web Series
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Web Series
Short Film
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circus arts/
movement
Aerial Dance
Specializing in single point aerial sling, static trapeze, and invented apparatus; comedic and lyrical acts available
General Circus Arts and Movement Work
Partner acrobatics, clown and mask, slapstick, unicycle, stilt walking, basic juggling, fire-spitting, and Viewpoints
Collaborations and Training
The Actor's Gymnasium, Aloft Circus Arts, Circus Smirkus, Redmoon, Garden of Eve, Willow Creek Community Church, Ameba Aerial Dance, Forms in Motion, Frequent Flyers, Skokie Park District
coaching, choreography, character development, general hanging-about, and performance
Contact Improv
Intimacy Directors International Certified Intimacy Director
music
Freelance composer, singer, songwriter, inventor of pretty sounds
Read, write, and arrange music
Multi-instrumentalist: piano, oboe, English horn, hammered dulcimer, and percussion performance
Sound design and foley effects
General sonic bad-assery
training
MFA in Acting
American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theatre
BA in Theatre Performance
Western Michigan University
Black Box Acting and The Acting Studio
Advanced Scene Study, voice-over, audition workshops
London Academy for Music and Dramatic Art and Shakespeare on the Green
Summer Shakespeare Intensives
Dell'Arte School of Physical Theatre
Mask construction and performance intensives
Intimacy Directors International
Pedagogy, intimacy design, choreography