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Vanessa Nowitzky

Ariel's Shadow in The Tempest,
Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet

In five seasons at OSF: Shirley Talley in Fifth of July, Ensemble in The Two Noble Kinsmen, Anne Page's friend in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Town Girl in The Member of the Wedding, and understudy roles.

Other theatres: Little Man, Queen of the Night and Hansel in three years of school tour programs, Cousin Hebe in HMS Pinafore (Rogue Opera), Rapunzel in Into the Woods, Zaneeta in The Music Man (Rogue Music Theatre), Third Witch in Macbeth (San Jose Stage Company), Natasma in Werewolf Blues (Cygnet Theater, Ashland New Plays Festival) Jody Miller, Tarot Witch in Dandelion Wine (PCPA Theaterfest), Ipigenia in Trojan Women, Echo in Eleemosynary (Actors' Theatre of Ashland).

Education: certificate, actor training program, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Santa Maria, California; BFA, music, emphasis composition, California Institute of the Arts; also attended Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, and Southern Oregon University; studied dance in Ashland with Suzee Grilley, Liz Finnegan, Suzanne Seiber and Robin Bryant.

Other credits: innovator and teacher of Singdancing; choreographer, composer, artistic director of the Singdancing Company, Ashland, Oregon; movement and voice coach for The Jungle Book, Southern Oregon University Theater Department; composed and wrote musical Werewolf Blues, which received a reading with Ashland New Plays Festival; composed musical The Golden Key from story by George MacDonald, which received concert production at CalArts.

Awards: Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship, 2005.

Hometown: Ashland, Oregon.

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

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