Angelique just closed three shows with the Texas Shakespeare Festival, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, and Sweeney Todd! She also participated in the staged reading of Jane Eyre.

This is her first time working in rep like this and she learned and grew a lot through this experience. This was also her first time doing a full-blown musical since her high school production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat! Whitney Branan (the director and choreographer of Sweeney Todd) was a dream to work with, and this experience has opened her up to the world of musical theatre. Hopefully this is only the first in a long line of musicals Angelique will do.

She is going to miss Texas Shakespeare Festival and especially all of the kind and talented people she worked with this summer.

Puck is a role that Angelique has been preparing for for over a year! And boy, is it a joy to play! She has so much fun every night messing around and dancing with her Oberon (played by Geoffrey Warren Barnes II) and causing chaos (both intentionally and unintentionally).

This is a role unlike anything Angelique has done before, and she is so overjoyed at the opportunity to stretch her acting muscles and see what else she can do!

Come and see this hilarious winter-fied production of A Midsummer Night's Dream! It runs until December 2nd!

The team, helmed by the wonderful Charles Pasternak as the director, had two weeks to rehearse and tech the show before it went up in front of audiences. But this was more than just a performance. Misty brought in panelists from around the world to discuss this play in 45-minute-long discussions with the audience following every performance. This led to discussions about what it meant that George Washington saw himself as this great liberator when he enslaved people. What it meant to have Black characters like Juba and Syphax, who were progressive in so many ways (Juba ends the play in an interracial relationship, and Syphax is so proud to be Black), knowing those characters were first played by white actors in blackface. What it means for this country to be reaching towards and uplifting these ideas of virtue and liberty, and to not yet have achieved those ideals.
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These very conversations and the power of theatre to create change that will continue long after the play has ended are why Angelique became an artist. And it was a privilege to be a part of telling this story and sharing in these conversations. 

This summer, thanks to generous grants from  the Ohio Arts Council and the Great Lakes Michael Chekov Consortium (GLMCC), Angelique had the opportunity to take two very different Acting workshops: Module 1 of the certification program at GLMCC and the Clown Core Program taught by the wonderful Michelle Matlock at Dell’Arte International. She chose these workshops intentionally as she wants to grow as a physical actor while preparing for her role as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company in the fall.

She learned so much during these workshops and is so excited to put these new skills into practice this year. From the joys of making people laugh to the precise psychological gestures created by Michael Chekov to simply the importance of being comfortable doing nothing onstage but being open and vulnerable, this summer has given her many new tools to use as she continues to learn and grow as an artist. But more than that, through these programs, she met many talented and kind people in the industry and outside of it. She is so grateful for the dinners they shared, the conversations they had, and the advice and wisdom she received. She made lifelong friends in these programs, and this summer is one she will never forget. ​

For the last year, Angelique has been able to work with the students of Xavier University's Theatre program as an intimacy director on three different productions. "Rabbit Hole" directed by friend and colleague Patrick Earl Phillips, and "Gruesome Playground Injuries" and "Measure for Measure" directed by student directors Tessa D'Errico and Isabelle Trapp, respectively.

Thank you, Xavier University for continuing to prioritize educational environments where all students can learn and grow without disregarding their physical and emotional well-being. It was a joy to work with these students, and Angelique hopes to work with Xavier Theatre again soon. 

Director Jemma Alix Levy took this controversial play by storm by reimagining the induction to focus on two women (Kristina and Amy), who throughout the play become more accepting of the unique relationship between Katherine and Petruchio. By keeping the induction in, the play allows the audience to not only learn from the story but also from watching the reactions of Kristina and Amy. 

In this adaptation, Angelique plays Bianca, Katherine's younger bratty sister who knows how to play the game to get what she wants. This change provided a great foil to Katherine, who is not angry but doesn't follow the rules laid out by this society. When Katherine meets her match in Petruchio, they have a battle of wits "meet cute." The play then follows the pair as they fall in love and learn from each other how to survive in this world that isn't built for them. Bianca falls in love as well, but by not being herself and, in doing so, may not have the happy ending marriage between Bianca and Lucentio that Katherine and Petruchio have. 

Angelique is so blessed to be a part of this daring production that has made her love Taming of the Shrew (even more than she loves its 90s adaptation "10 Things I Hate About You). 

This production runs until March 25th, so get your tickets today!