Angelique just opened the second production ever of Brian Dykstra's new play, Polishing Shakespeare at the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskills, NY! She booked the job the day she arrived in NYC (after driving through the night from Cincinnati).

The play is the story of a dot-com billionaire who pays an esteemed American theatre company to translate Shakespeare into English. This sly comedy, written entirely in iambic pentameter, is inspired by an unbelievably true story, as it asks the question: to sell out or not to sell out.

Come see the show! The play runs until April 27th.​

Angelique is thrilled to be working with playwright and screenwriter, Zina Camblin (Wu-Tang: an American Saga) on the world-premiere of her new play, The Guest! The play is a family situational living room comedy, that explores what happens when an adopted bi-racial woman knocks on the door of her Evangelical, right-wing birth mother's home in rural Missouri to get answers about her identity. Dysfunctional family dynamics ensue, and dark secrets are revealed, in this hilarious and timely dark comedy. 

This is the first time Angelique has been a part of a world-premiere like this and she has loved developing the script and her character, Jessica, alongside Zina. 

In December 2023, Angelique was a part of Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig's Holiday Party, an immersive Christmas Carol experience put on by the company the year they could not put on their famed production because of the renovations for the theatre! It was there that she met so many kind artists, including the lovely and talented Dina Monk.

She had no idea that just two years later, she would act alongside Dina and some of the most talented and generous people she has ever had the privilege to work with. It is so rare to have a team that wants to spend their evenings playing games, singing karaoke, or even participating in a book club! But they did! And she will miss these wonderful artists and the many laughs they have shared both onstage and off. 

She is forever grateful to have been a part of this Cincinnati Christmas tradition! She hopes she is able to come back next year and make performing in A Christmas Carol a tradition of her own.

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.