My theater experience includes performance (acting, mask work, puppeteering, stage combat, performance art, radio dramas, circus skills, etc.), mask design (for which I won a 2008 L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award), writing, stage management, directing, foley work, and more.
My theater experience includes performance (acting, mask work, puppeteering, stage combat, performance art, radio dramas, circus skills, etc.), mask design (for which I won a 2008 L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award), writing, stage management, directing, foley work, and more.
I've held high-level management jobs in theaters across California, including a stint as the Managing Director of LA's Rogue Artists Ensemble, after which I became the Operations Manager at The Marsh, San Francisco's premier solo performance venue. From 2009-2010, I ran the box office (among other duties) at San Francisco's famous Magic Theatre, and until 2013 I was the Audience Development Manager for the Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
My performance work has appeared at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Long Beach Opera, Son of Semele, Bootleg Theater, MTV.com, and on the radio. I hold a degree in drama (with honors) from the University of California, Irvine.
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Training
- Acting: Robert Cohen (theater), Richard Brestoff (film)
- Voice: Phil Thompson, Alan Beck, Bonnie Barbari
- Movement & mime: Annie Loui
- Clowning & mask: Eli Simon
- Stage combat (quarterstaff): Dave Maier/Dueling Arts International
- Butoh & Suzuki: Fran Barbe
- Performance art: Deborah Oliver
- Bunraku: Sean Cawelti (Rogue Artists Ensemble)
- Aerial arts: Circus Center San Francisco, Sonya Smith
Experience
In 2002, I trained at KUCI 88.9FM in Irvine, California and got myself cleared to act pretentious and play indie rock at, deservedly, three in the morning. (I got better.) The next year, on my show renewal form, I ditched my (far superior) co-host and decided to go it alone, rebranding my show as "Pirate Radio with Captain Cari." As a joke, I listed my show's genres as "sea shanties, pirate rock, and other buried treasures." The program director took me seriously and gave me a stellar timeslot for my creativity.
- Host and Board Operator
Children of the Revolution (KUCI 88.9 FM, 2002-2003)
Pirate Radio with Captain Cari (KUCI 88.9 FM, 2003-2004) - Foley Artist
The Mystery of Agatha Christie (2002)
Sorry, Wrong Number (2003) - Voice Actor
Soap Noir, lead (BBC Radio, 2004)
The Bottleneck Cafe, featured (FCC Free Radio, 2010) - Assistant Training Director
KUCI 88.9 FM, 2003-2004
It was the best thing that could have happened to me, because suddenly I was forced to stop sucking and really put some effort in. I scoured the internet for sea shanty compilations and begged the distributors to send me a free copy in exchange for airtime. Shockingly, it worked. But there's only so many shanties you can listen to in a day, so I had to get creative. Pretty soon, I had all sorts of fun traditions, like pirate merch giveaways for answering nautical trivia questions and--my favorite--a daily, live mashup of some ambient indie rock (Godspeed You Black Emperor, for example) and the vocal track from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.
...I said I got better, not less pretentious.
Theaters I've worked with
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