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Eileen DeSandre*

Brighella in The Servant of Two Masters,
Bertha Katz in Paradise Lost

In 15 seasons at OSF: Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Madaniḱā and Ensemble in The Clay Cart, Gertrud in On the Razzle, Mme. Pernelle in Tartuffe, Emilia in The Winter's Tale, Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Sasha Smirnoff in Room Service, Holofernes in Love's Labour's Lost, Dr. Pinch in The Comedy of Errors, Della in The Royal Family, Monica Reed in Present Laughter, Juliana Tesman in Hedda Gabler, Popilius Lena and Clitus in Julius Caesar, Aunt Meme in Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Heidi in Fuddy Meers, Andromache in Troilus and Cressida, Nurse Preen in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Go-to-Hell Kitty in Chicago, Mrs. Helseth in Rosmersholm, Maddalena Guarneri in The Magic Fire, (OSF and The Kennedy Center), Mrs. Candour in The School for Scandal, Maria Vasilyevna in Uncle Vanya, Amira in Pentecost, Bessie Berger in Awake and Sing!, Maria in Twelfth Night, The Maid in Blood Wedding, Rhea in You Can't Take It with You.

Other theatres: Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Theatre of East Carolina, Fulton Opera House, St. Vincent Theatre. Theatre for the New City, ATA, Promenade, INTAR.

Education: MFA, Pennsylvania State University.

* member of Actors' Equity Association

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Full time: 325
Part time: 175
Average length of service: 8 years
Volunteers: 600

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