(photo: Matt Harvey)
Leigh will be next seen playing the part of Princess Puffer in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
2 pm: April 14, 21
8 pm: April 12-13, 19-20
Meader Little Theater
Troy Campus, The Sage Colleges
Sara Curtis as Rose and Leigh Strimbeck as Princess Puffer in Theatre Institute at Sage’s 2013 production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, photo by Tamara Hansen
The Trojan WomenAdapted and Directed by Leigh Strimbeck
Euripides’ play follows the fates of a group of women after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and any remaining family members doomed to enslavement. In this new steampunk, dystopian adaptation, the women of Troy are living in the aftermath of war in a refugee camp abandoned by protection and authority. As their conquerors send missives about death sentences for their children, the women must decide whether to listen to the raving Cassandra, or take matters into their own hands as they lament the loss of the land that reared them: the city of Troy.
Lexie Phillips as Helen in The Trojan Women, adapted and directed by Leigh Strimbeck at The Theatre Institute at Sage, 2013. Photo by Tamara Hansen.
Kyrie Ellison as Hecuba in The Trojan Women, adapted and directed by Leigh Strimbeck at The Theatre Institute at Sage, 2013. Photo by Tamara Hansen.
Cassandra sees the future; Kaleigh Cerqua as Cassandra, Margaux Boury as “Talty” in The Trojan Women, adapted and directed by Leigh Strimbeck at The Theatre Institute at Sage, 2013. Photo by Tamara Hansen.
Dates and Tickets:
The Berkshire Festival of Women Writers
Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Friday, March 22, 2013 7PM
berkshirewomenwriters.org
Dates and Tickets:
The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble’s First Stories Festival
The Wild Project
195 East 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009
For tickets: 212-352-3101
or boxoffice@phoenixtheatreensemble.org
Saturday March 9, 2013 4:30PM
Sunday March 10, 2013 6PM & 8PM
All tickets, $20
Dates and Tickets:
The Theatre Institute at Sage
Troy Campus, The Sage Colleges,
James L. Meader Little Theater
February 28th, 2013 10AM, 7PM
March 1, 2013 Friday, 10AM & 8PM
March 2, 2013 Saturday, 8PM
March 3, 2013 Sunday, 2PM
For tickets: 518-244-2248
$10 Adults, $8 Students and Seniors
Virginia Woolf received mention as “Critic picks the top 10 theater productions of 2012” By Bob Goepfert
Virginia Woolf received mention as “Critics top five picks of 2012”: Michael Eck
“TROY – Wow!
Sometimes one has to look in corners and crevices to find the best the area arts scene has to offer. Such is the case with the Theatre Institute at Sage’s 50th Anniversary Second Stage production of Edward Albee’s staggering masterpiece “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”…a small, excellent cast.
David Bunce and Leigh Strimbeck play George and Martha. Bunce, easily doing his best work ever, is remarkable as George, and Strimbeck is often genuinely fearsome as the cat in the corner Martha. They hurl insult after insult, while riding waves of emotion, Scotch and gin.
They make this the best “Woolf” I have seen (which is saying something, considering it’s my favorite play)…This play is not light. It is as dark as art gets, and it plunges headlong into the inky depths of the crippled American spirit…Very recommended”
— Albany Times Union Arts Beat Blog by Michael Eck, 11/2012
Fighting for Freedom is screening at the Film Columbia festival Saturday October 20th, 6:30PM. Leigh plays across from Bruce Dern, as his wife, and as Kristanna Loken’s Mom. For tickets go to: www.filmcolumbia.org Please come support this wonderful film!
I played the character of Nimue in Dark Horse Comics Youtube Series, Hellboy.
Additional parts of this series can be found at YouTube.
Writing a new adaptation of Women of Troy and directing it at Russell Sage College. My husband Joe is sound designing. This version will be set in a dystopian prison camp for women on the banks of the Hudson River in Troy, New York. Limited run, school matinees available. Call 518-244-2248 for tickets and info.
Performing Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Theatre Institute at Sage. Directed by David Baecker with David Bunce as George. Couldn’t be happier to be revisiting this role for a second time. Dates: November 2, 2PM & 8PM; November 3, 8PM, November 9 & 10, 8PM; November 11, 2PM.
Meader Little Theatre, Troy, New York – For tickets go to: www.sage.edu/theatre/ or call 518-244-2248
About to go into rehearsal for a workshop devised theater production of “like/unlike” which I am directing for WAM Theatre. We are the company in residence at the WORDXWORD Festival in Pittsfield, MA. The piece is about the impact of social media on women’s lives. For more info, go to: WAMTheatre.com
In its “Best Of” list for 2011, Berkshire online gives Leigh Strimbeck an honorable mention in the best actress category for her role as Clare in Capital Repertory’s Kingdom of the Shore, written by Terrance Lamude and directed by Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill.
