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Off-Broadway and Touring
Barbara's Off-Broadway performance
of
"Ivy Rowe" from
Lee Smith's Fair and Tender
Ladies, led to her touring of
one-woman adaptations
from the works of Lee Smith,
Kaye Gibbons
and Fred Chappell. "On Agate Hill," from
Lee Smith's latest
novel, is currently a popular choice.
With
musical accompaniment by Jeff Sebens, and minimal staging
requirements, her productions play at libraries, colleges, and
conferences, as well as on stages.
www.jeffsebens.com
Telling Her Own Stories
Practicing
what she preaches in "Our Own Stories" workshops (and
having studied with Spalding Gray), she tells her own
story, "The C-Word: A Life-meets-Art Cancer Story."
In
a related public service program, she pairs with an oncologist
in an interactive format: "A Doctor-Patient
Dialog on Cancer." Other original
pieces for touring are "Confessions of a Deacon's Wife," "Once Upon a Stage," and "My Own Christmas Story- with Apologies to
Norman Rockwell."
Roles
She
was featured in four Southeastern productions of
Margaret Edson's prizewinner "Wit," and named the '03 Southeastern Theatre Conference Best Actress
for her role in "Eleemosynary." At
the Asolo Theatre, she was in the world premiere of Horton
Foote's "Talking Pictures." Other notable roles in regional theaters have
included "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "Three Tall Women,"
"Company," "Driving Miss Daisy," and Samuel Beckett's "Happy
Days."
Past
Works
Barbara
conceived and co-directed "Jazz,
Jam, No Jive," an original play by
and about Tampa's black teenagers, with music by Nat
Adderley. Programs based on literary lives and works highlighted the years she headed Taproot Theater,
an educational
ensemble in Florida.
Barbara and her husband,
Russell, now live in the mountains near Clyde, North Carolina, where she plays
autoharp, dulcimer, piano and guitar, and is learning harp and harmonica.
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