Annelise Lawson Annelise Lawson
Union affiliation:
AEA
 
Hair color: Blonde
Eye color: Blue

Production Experience

Title

Role

Place

Director


Theatre

 

 

 

The Square Root of 3 Sisters (upcoming)

Masha

International Festival of Arts & Ideas

Dmitry Krymov

Arcadia

Chloe

Yale Repertory Theatre

James Bundy

The Moors

Emilie (u/s)

Yale Repertory Theatre

Jackson Gay

Owners

Mrs. Arlington/Alec’s Mum (u/s)

Yale Repertory Theatre

Evan Yionoulis

The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls

Nastya/Other Katya (u/s)

Yale Repertory Theatre

Rachel Chavkin

The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe

Ligeia/Luciana

First Folio Theatre

Michael Goldberg

Sigourno Reaver (Harold Team)

Member

iO Chicago

Kevin Sciretta

The Oresteia

Clytemnestra

Yale School of Drama

Yagil Eliraz

...And Sometimes Why (The Commedia Project)

Mr. Fix-It/Ensemble

Yale School of Drama

Christopher Bayes

The Troublesome Reign of King John

Constance

Yale School of Drama

Leora Morris

In Arabia We’d All Be Kings

Chickie

Yale School of Drama

Ron Van Lieu

The Tempest

Ariel

Yale School of Drama

Ensemble Created

Our Lady of 121st St

Marcia

Yale School of Drama

Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Preston Montfort—An American Tragedy

Chorus Two

Yale School of Drama

Andrej Visky

The Skin of Our Teeth

Miss E. Muse/Conveener

Yale School of Drama

Luke Harlan

A Map of Virtue

Sarah

Yale Summer Cabaret

Luke Harlan

Middletown

Librarian

Yale Summer Cabaret

Luke Harlan

Summer Shorts: A Festival of New Voices

Blink/Amy/Monika

Yale Summer Cabaret

Jessica Holt

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

Sidonie

Yale Cabaret

Leora Morris

The Secretaries

Peaches Martin

Yale Cabaret

Melanie Field

The Hotel Nepenthe

Actor Two

Yale Cabaret

Rachel Carpman

The Crazy Shepherds of Rebellion

3/Grandma/Carl Solomon

Yale Cabaret

David Bruin

The Cherry Orchard

Ranyevskaya

MXAT School

Alexandre Marine

Peter Pan’s Shadow Trilogy

Tinker Bell

Dream Theatre Company

Jeremy Menekseoglu

Ismene

Iphigenia

Dream Theatre Company

Jeremy Menekseoglu

The Grisly/Glorious Adventure
of Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh,
and Billie Moon

Piglet/Eeyore

Dream Theatre Company

Jeremy Menekseoglu

Happy End

Lt. Lillian Holiday

Carleton Mainstage

Edward Berkeley

The Laundromat

Ensemble

Carleton Mainstage

Barbra Berlovitz

Education

School

Degree

Area of Study

Teacher

Carleton College

BA

Theatre Arts/Psychology, summa cum laude

Barbra Berlovitz, Ruth Weiner, Edward Berkeley

Yale School of Drama

MFA

Acting

 

 

 

Acting

Ron Van Lieu, Evan Yionoulis, David Chambers, Robert Woodruff

 

 

Acting/Shakespeare/Text

Peter Francis James, James Bundy, Steven Skybell

 

 

Speech-Dialect

Beth McGuire, Jane Guyer Fujita

 

 

Voice

Walton Wilson, Grace Zandarski, Louis Colaianni, Dawn-Elin Fraser

 

 

Alexander Technique

Jessica Wolf, Bill Connington

 

 

Singing

Glenn Seven Allen, Anne Tofflemire

 

 

Stage Combat

Rick Sordelet, Michael Rossmy

 

 

Dance for Actors

Lori Leshner, Moncell Durden

 

 

The Body as Source/The Body in Space

Erica Fae

 

 

Voice Over

Billy Serow

 

 

Clown/Commedia

Christopher Bayes

 

 

Theater Games

Justine Williams

 

 

Creating Actor-Generated Work

Joan MacIntosh

 

 

Acting for Camera & Professional Preparation

Ellen Novack, Gregory Berger-Sobeck

 

 

Yoga

Annie Piper

 

Awards and Honors

Best Actress (Best of Chicago 2012 Reader’s Choice Awards); The Larsen Award in Creative and Performing Arts (Carleton College); Honor of Distinction for Senior Acting Thesis (Carleton)

 

Special Skills

Soprano-Contralto Vocal Range; Stage Combat; Clown/Commedia; Classical Guitar; Long-form Improv; Sketch Writing; Speech & Dialect Coaching; Basic Marksmanship; Beginning Spanish