mnartists.org: Elisa Carlson

Twelfth Night

Elisa Carlson — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:06:11 GMT

Directed this Original Practices production for GTA.

The Good Lie

Elisa Carlson — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:47:27 GMT

Dialect coach for this new feature film about the Lost Boys of Sudan, directed by Phillip Felardeau.

TEN

Elisa Carlson — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:43:17 GMT

Dialect Coach for this feature film, directed by David Ayer.

Steel Magnolias (2012 Lifetime Film)

Elisa Carlson — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:55:24 GMT

Dialect Consultant for the 2012 remake of [i]Steel Magnolias[/i], directed by Kenny Leon and starring Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Alfre Woodard and Jill Scott. Playing on the Lifetime Channel beginning in October of 2012.

Theatrical Outfit

Elisa Carlson — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:59:20 GMT

Voice, Speech, Dialects and Text Coach, Tom Key, Artistic Director. 2009 National Black Arts Festival: [i]The Blood Knot[/i] featuring Kenny Leon and Tom Key (Susan Booth, dir.) 2003 National Black Arts Festival: [i]The Island [/i]featuring Kenny Leon (Kate Warner, dir.) 2001-2002 Season: [i]Hard Times[/i], [i]The Magician’s Nephew [/i](Rosemary Newcott, dir.) 1997-98: [i]The Blood Knot[/i], featuring Kenny Leon and Tom Key (David H. Bell, dir) 1996-97: [i]The Real Thing[/i] (Vincent Murphy, dir.).

Actor's Express

Elisa Carlson — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:38:40 GMT

Actor and Voice/Dialects/Text coach, Chris Coleman, Artistic Director (1987-1999). Actor: [i]C[/i][i]ANDIDA [/i](Candida/Chris Coleman, dir.), world premiere of Sandra Deer's [i]SAILING TO BYZANTIUM [/i](Maud Gonne/Chris Coleman, dir.), [i]LI[/i][i]FE IS A DREAM[/i] (Rosaura/Chris Coleman, dir.), [i]THE GOOD WOMAN ([/i]Mrs. Mi Tsu/Chris Coleman, dir.), [i]RECKLESS [/i](Trish/Chris Coleman, dir.). Voice/TextCoach: 2001-2002: [i]the doll plays[/i] (Peter DuBois, dir.), [i]The Wooden Breeks[/i] (Wier Harmon, dir.), [i]Beautiful Thing [/i](David Crowe, dir.) 2000-2001: [i]The Illusion [/i](Wier Harmon, dir.)[i],[/i][i] Loot [/i](K. Elizabeth Stevens, dir.), [i]Fefu and Her Friends [/i](Wier Harmon, dir.),[i]The Mystery of Irma Vep[/i] (Randee Trabitz, dir.) [i][/i] 1999-2000: premiere of Robert Shenkkan’s [i]Handler[/i] (Chris Coleman, dir.) 1998-99: [i]The Devils [/i](Chris Coleman, dir.), [i]A Doll’s House [/i](Nancy Keystone, dir.) 1997-98: [i]Wonderful Town, Candida [/i]and[i] Auntie Mame[/i] (Chris Coleman, dir.), [i]The Birthday Party [/i](Peter Ganim, dir.) 1996-97: [i]The Misanthrope[/i] (Nancy Keystone, dir.) 1995-96: [i]Twelfth Night [/i](Chris Coleman, dir.)

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Elisa Carlson — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:28:20 GMT

Voice, Dialects and Text Director for Kenny Leon’s production of [i]Playboy of the West Indies[/i], 2002 Season.

The Children's Theatre Company

Elisa Carlson — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:02:56 GMT

Voice, Speech, Dialects, Text and Foreign Language Coach, Peter Brosius, Artistic Director. 2008 Season: Premiere of Jerome Hairston’s [i]Iqbal[/i] (Peter Brosius, dir.), Promenade-style [i]Romeo and Juliet[/i] (Greg Banks, dir.) 2007 Season: Premiere of Lonnie Carter’s [i]Lost Boys of Sudan, ([/i]Peter Brosius, dir.) 2006 Season: Premiere of Naomi Iizuka’s [i]Anon(ymous) [/i](Peter Brosius, dir.) 2004 Season: Premiere of Kia Corthron’s [i]Snap Shot Silhouette[/i] (Michael John Garces, dir.)

ListenUp! Audio Books

Elisa Carlson — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:08:51 GMT

Professional audio book narration. Latest title: Breathless by JP Smith

Theater Emory

Elisa Carlson — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:52:19 GMT

Actor/Director and Voice, Speech, Dialects and Text Coach for this professional theater associated with the Department of Theater Studies at Emory University. Vinnie Murphy, Artistic Director. Director: Love's Labours Lost, 1999 Black Rose Season; Infinite Country, 2011 Brave New Works Season. Actor: [i]The Flying Hours [/i](Lady Fop/Michael Evenden, dir.), [i]The Master Builder [/i](Mrs. Solness/Vinnie Murphy, dir.), [i]Back to Methuselah [/i](Mrs. Lutestring/She Ancient/Tim Ocel, dir.), [i]The Family Project [/i](Linda/Vinnie Murphy, dir.). Voice/Text Coach: 2001-02 Season: Naomi Wallace’s [i]The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek[/i] (Vincent Murphy, dir.), [i]Ah, Wilderness![/i] (John Ammerman, dir.). 2000-01: [i]Jersey City[/i][i] [/i](Ariel de Man, dir.) 1999-2000: [i]The Beckett Project [/i](Brenda Bynum, dir.), [i]As You Like It [/i](Janice Akers, dir.) 1998-99: [i]Brecht Cabaret[/i] and [i]Edward II[/i] (Tim Ocel, dir.) 1997-98: [i]Pillars of Society [/i](Ariel de Man, dir.), [i]The Lion and the Jewel [/i](Andrea Frye, dir.) 1996-97: [i]The Tempest [/i]and [i]Hamlet and Ophelia[/i] (Vincent Murphy, dir.) 1995-96: premiere of [i]American Wake[/i] (Tim McDonough, playwright/director)

Georgia Shakespeare

Elisa Carlson — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:47:22 GMT

Associate Artist/Voice, Speech, Dialects and Text Coach since 1995. Richard Garner, Artistic Producing Director. Credits include: 2012 Season: [i]The Importance of Being Earnest [/i](Sabin Epstein, dir.) 2011: [i]Noises Off [/i](Richard Garner, dir.) 2010: [i]The Odyssey: A Journey Home [/i](Richard Garner, dir.) 2006: [i]Metamorphoses[/i] (Richard Garner, dir.) 2005: [i]The Cherry Orchard [/i](Sabin Epstein, dir.) 2004:[i] [/i][i]Coriolanus[/i] (John Dillon, dir.) 2003: [i]Much Ado About Nothing [/i](Kenny Leon, dir.), [i]The School for Wives [/i](Karen Robinson, dir.), [i]Cymbelline [/i](Nancy Keystone, dir.) 2001: [i]Amadeus [/i](Karen Robinson, dir.), [i]The Winter’s Tale [/i](Richard Garner, dir.), [i]Julius Caesar[/i] (John Dillon, dir.). 2000: [i]Twelfth Night [/i](Sabin Epstein, dir.), [i]Tartuffe[/i] (Karen Robinson, dir.), [i]Richard II [/i](Tim Ocel, dir./also played Duchess of York) and [i]A Midsummer Night’s Dream [/i](Richard Garner, dir.). 1999: [i]Hamlet [/i](John Dillon, dir.), [i]The Comedy of Errors [/i](Sabin Epstein, dir.), [i]Saint Joan [/i](Karen Robinson, dir.) , [i]Romeo and Juliet [/i](Richard Garner, dir.). 1998: [i]Henry IV, Part One [/i](Drew Frasher, dir.), [i]The Miser [/i](Sabin Epstein, dir.), [i]Measure for Measure [/i](Tim Ocel, dir.). 1997: [i]The Tempest [/i](Sabin Epstein, dir.), [i]School for Scandal [/i](Karen Robinson, dir.), [i]Othello [/i](Nancy Keystone, dir.). 1996: [i]The Bourgeois Gentleman[/i] (K. Robinson, dir.), [i]Troilus and Cressida[/i] (Tom Markus, dir.). 1995: [i]Much Ado About Nothing [/i](Karen Robinson, dir.), [i]The Country Wife [/i](Sabin Epstein, dir.) and [i]King Lear [/i](Tim Ocel, dir.).

The Alliance Theatre

Elisa Carlson — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:35:50 GMT

Actor/Voice, Speech and Text Coach, Susan V. Booth, Artistic Director and Kenny Leon, Artistic Director (1995-2001). Actor: [i]The Grapes of Wrath [/i](David Bell, dir.), [i]Merlin! [/i](Larry Larson, dir.), [i]Marco Polo [/i](Skip Foster, dir), workshop of Sandra Deer's [i]The Subject Tonight is Love [/i](Megan Monaghan/Kenny Leon, dirs.). Voice, Speech and Text Coach: 2012-2013 Season: [i]Good People [/i](Susan Booth, dir.) 2011-2012: [i]Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,[/i] world premiere by Stephen King/John Mellencamp (Susan Booth, dir.), [i]I Just Stopped By to See the Man [/i](Ron OJ Parson, dir.) 2001-02: [i]A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur [/i](Kent Gash, dir.), [i]A Christmas Carol [/i](five productions since 1998; David H. Bell and Kenny Leon, dirs.), [i]Jar the Floor [/i](Andrea Frye, dir.), Premiere: Jorge Cortinas’ [i]Sleepwalkers [/i](Ruben Polendo, dir.). 2000-01: [i]The Book of Ruth [/i](Rosemary Newcott, dir.), [i]Art [/i](David H. Bell, dir.) , [i]A Moon for the Misbegotten [/i]and[i] Hearts [/i](Kenny Leon, dir.), [i]Light Up the Sky [/i](Peggy Shannon, dir.), [i]God’s Man in Texas [/i](Eddie Levi Lee, dir.). 1999-2000: [i]Chess [/i](David H. Bell, dir.), [i]He Looks Good in a Hat [/i](Lawrence Keller, dir.), [i]Shadowlands [/i](Susan V. Booth, dir.), [i]Heartbreak House [/i](Chris Coleman, dir.). 1998-99: [i]Aida: [/i][i]Elaborate Lives[/i] (diction coaching only on this Disney/Alliance co-production), [i]Crumbs From the Table of Joy [/i](Kenny Leon, dir.), [i]The Grapes of Wrath [/i]and [i]The Sum of Us [/i](David H. Bell, dir.), [i]Burning Patience [/i]and [i]Arcadia [/i](Peggy Shannon, dir.), [i]The Old Settler[/i] (L. Kenneth Richardson, dir.). 1997-98: [i]Medea[/i], directed by Kenny Leon with Phylicia Rashad as Medea, [i]Beast On the Moon [/i](Susan V. Booth, dir.), [i]Valley Song[/i] (Andrea Frye, dir.). 1996-97: [i]Romeo and Juliet [/i](David H. Bell, dir.).

The Guthrie Theater

Elisa Carlson — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:18:01 GMT

Resident Artistic Staff for Voice and Speech, 2002-2010, Joe Dowling, Artistic Director. Coaching Credits include: 2009-2010 Season: [i]M. Butterfly [/i](Peter Rothstien, dir.), [i]Dollhouse[/i] (Wendy C. Goldberg, dir.), [i]A Streetcar Named Desire [/i](John Miller, dir.), [i]A Christmas Carol [/i](Gary Gisselman, dir., 4 productions since 2005) 2008-2009: Premiere of Tony Kushner’s [i]The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures [/i]featuring Michael Cristofer, Stephen Spinella and Linda Emond (Michael Greif, dir.), [i]Tiny Kushner[/i] (Tony Taccone, dir.), [i]Shadowlands [/i](Joe Dowling, dir.) 2007-2008: [i]Pen[/i] (Rob Melrose, dir.), [i]The Secret Life of Constance Wilde [/i](Marcela Lorca, dir.), Premiere of Julie Marie Myatt’s [i]Boats on a River [/i](Michael Dixon, dir.) 2006-2007: [i]Lost in Yonkers [/i](Gary Gisselman, dir.), [i]The Glass Menagerie [/i](Joe Dowling, dir.), [i]Major Barbara [/i](Lisa Peterson, dir.) Workshop of Kia Corthron’s [i]Tap the Leopard [/i](Tim Bond, dir.) 2005-2006: [i]Intimate Apparel [/i](Tim Bond, dir.) Premiere of Kelly Stuart’s [i]Shadow Language [/i](Michael Dixon, dir.) 2004-2005: [i]Sex Habits of the American Woman [/i](Michael Dixon, dir.), Premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s [i]Oedipus [/i](Lisa Peterson, dir.), [i]She Loves Me [/i](John Miller, dir.), [i]A Body of Water [/i]with Michael Learned, Edward Hermann (Ethan McSweeney, dir.) 2003-2004: [i]The Night of the Iguana [/i](John Miller, dir.), [i]Crowns [/i](Tim Bond, dir.), [i]Romeo and Juliet [/i](Ethan McSweeney, dir.), [i]Pirates of Penzance [/i](Joe Dowling, dir.) 2002-2003: [i]The Chairs [/i](Daniel Aukin, dir.), [i]Mrs. Warren’s Profession[/i] (Lisa Peterson, dir.), [i]Wintertime [/i](John Miller, dir.), [i]Six Degrees of Separation [/i](Ethan McSweeney, dir).

As You Like It

Elisa Carlson — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:54:03 GMT

Touchstone in [i]As You Like It[/i] directed by Randy Reyes, The Strange Capers, 2010 Season.

Children of Oedipus

Elisa Carlson — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:42:13 GMT

Director/Adaptor/Designer of [i]Children of Oedipus [/i](from Sophocles' [i]Antigone[/i] and Aeschylus' [i]Seven Against Thebes[/i]) for the Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program, 2010 Season.