Resume'
SF Bay Area, California -Globally: wherever the work takes
me
Immobile: (415) 491-9723
Mobile: (415) 299-0996
E-mail: dariabau@aol.com
Height: 5'6
Weight: 150
Hair: brown, gray, etc. ..as required
Eyes:
blue
Voice: MEZZO (4 octaves range) ~ belt and legit
Equity
status: EMC (Equity membership candidate)
female
40 - 70 age range
Caucasian
Stage work:
'Tosca' Berkeley Opera Company, dir: Barbara
Heroux, Conductor: Jonathan Khuner, chorus/ second soprano, Julia Morgan Theatre, Berkeley, Ca.
'Funny You Don't Look Like A Grandmother', Dir: Scott Fryer, Grandmother #2, Napa Valley Opera House, El Campanile
Theatre, and various other venues in Contra Costa County
'Carousel' ~ Staged
Concert: Ensemble/mezzo, Lamplighters Music Theater, Director: Dennis Lickteig, Dean Lesher Center For The Performing
Arts ~ Walnut Creek, Ca., Yerba Buena Center For The Arts ~ SF, Ca, El Campanile Theater ~ Antioch, Ca.
'Can't
Say I Do' ~ staged reading, original musical dramedy ~ book, music and lyrics by Peter Alexander and Kevin Yell: Margaret
Bennett: miserable, bitter, divorced mother of gay son and pregnant daughter (both living with their prospective partners)
who fortunately arcs towards a semi-evolved, feeling, tolerant human being by show's end) Jon Sims Center For The
Arts ~ SF. Ca.
'Ragtime': Ensemble, Immigrant, Social Welfare Worker/second soprano, Dir: Joel
Schlader, Woodminster Amphitheater ~ Oakland Hills, Ca.
'Threepenny Opera': Ensemble/Beggar/Lunatic, mezzo,
Dir: James Dunn, College of Marin/Main Stage ~ Kentfield, Ca.
'Carmen': Chorus/Soprano, Golden Gate
Opera Company, Dir: Edna Garabedian, Conductor: Jeffrey Gallegos, Marin Veteran's Memorial Auditorium ~ San Rafael Civic Center
'Once Upon A Mattress': Ensemble/Alto Dir: Linda Dunn, Ross Valley Players ~ Ross, Ca.
'Carousel':
Nettie Fowler, Dir: Blanca Florido, San Anselmo Town Players ~ San Anselmo, Ca.
'Sound of Music':
Mother Abbess, Dir: Mark Clark, Novato Theater Company ~ San Rafael,Novato, Ca.
'Into The Woods', nominated
for Bay Area Theater Critics' Award - Best Ensemble in a Musical: Granny/Cinderella's Mother, Dir: Sean Bernardi, Hoochi Doo
Productions with Ross Valley Players
'Sweeney Todd': Ensemble/Soprano, Dir: Jeff Wiesen, Independent
Actors of Marin (IAM)
'Most Happy Fella', Marie: bitter, nasty, unhappy sister of 'most HAPPY fella', Dir:
Carrie Sugarman, Novato Theater Company
'Annie' encore production/fundraiser for Juvenile Dibaetes Assoc, Mrs.
Pugh, Dir: Carrie Sugarman, Novato Theater Company,
'Man Of La Mancha': Antonia: greedy yet sweet niece of
Man of la mancha/Quixote, Dir: Mark Clark, Novato Theater Company
'Sound of Music': Sister Sophia, mezzo,
Dir: Andrew Holtz, Willows Theater, Concord, Ca.
'Me and My Girl': Maid,Ensemble, Dir: H. James Schlader, Woodminster
Amphitheater ~ Oakland, Ca.
'Anything Goes': Ensemble, Dir: H. James Schlader, Woodminster Amphitheater ~ Oakland,
Ca.
'Cabaret': Two Ladies/Kit Kat Girl, Dir: Linda Ell, Oakland Summer Theater
'Guys and Dolls': Agatha,
u/s Sarah Brown, Dir: Ted Smalley, Oakland Civic Theater
'New Girl In Town', Dir: Ted Smalley, Oakland Civic Theater
Film Credits:
'To My Surprise' featured background/talk show audience, Dir: Nina Lescher/Scary Cow Productions,
Mill Valley, Ca.
Screened and film won 1st prize at Scary Cow Productions -Round 6- Victoria Theater, SF,
Ca. Oct-2008.
Featured Background roles:
'Four Christmases' (to be released in 2008) with Reese
Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Mary Steenbergen and Robert Duvall.
Cab Driver SFO and traveler at SFO
'James Bond', 'View To A Kill',
'Maxie' (with Glenn Close, Ruth Gordon and Mandy Patinkin): One half hour
into film, immediately following library scene, as Glenn Close comes down elevator in Galleria Mall/SF, I and another actress
are looking in window of lingerie shoppe as we begin walking across screen, arm-in-arm.
I, then, got sent
back solo, with another actress and I almost careening into each other! These starring, major roles (NOT) were before
I realized background work may not get my career moving forward very rapidly.
But, I did get to be part of Ruth
Gordon's very last film. ;-D
RIP Ruth G.
'True Believer' (with James Woods and Robert Downey Jr.),donning
winter coats on a hot summer's SF evening, portraying a cold winter in Chicago
'Copycat' (with Sigourney Weaver
and Holly Hunter), on a very windiy afternoon atop Twin Peaks
'Beaches' (with Barbara Hershey and Bette Midler)
Dir: Garry Marshall
I'm the solo driver (my then Honda Accord) going in opposite direction as Bette M. turns
into hospital entrance after her rainy night drive to SF from LA.
...on a sunny afternoon made, beautifully, to
look like a rainy night. Ah, the magic of film.
TV Credits:
Featured extra: 'Midnight
Caller': Women's Jail Warden;
other background roles:
'Partners In Crime'
(with Loni Anderson and Lynda Carter),
'Midnight Caller' (with Gary Cole),
'Nash
Bridges',
'Journeyman' NBC
'Trauma'
Industrial work:
AC TRANSIT
: PSA (ala Robert Altman!), Scientist/Yacht owner, dir: Nina Lescher, Berkeley, Ca.
FOCUS ON FIVE: HD training series screened for Macy's Bridal and Gift Registry
conference, Orlando, Florida, May 2007.
role: Gina's Aunt
Producer: Siciliana Trevino ~ Macy's Satellite Network
COMMERCIALS:
Subaru: web/print ad. (let's talk with some
real Subaru owners) dir:
Gatorade: SAG commercial, Harvest Productions,
dir: Baker Smith,
Tours De France European spectator, Sonoma wine country.
Other
Credits:
Voiceover work:
'Narrator' 'The Good Egg' docutrailer
for doc about Invitro fertilization
'Janet' 'The Cheeky Dimension' book/play by KDReady
Background
work: 'Michael Jackson' video: 'Cry',
Soloist and chamber singer: San Francisco Lyric Chorus, Robert
Gurney, conductor,
Scene work: College of Marin acting class, scene in performance:
'Glass
Menagerie': Amanda,
''night Mother': Mother,
'Childrens' Hour': Mrs. Mortar
Brown Bag Theater (scenes) College of Marin Kentfield
Dir: Tom Kushner
'Death
Of A Salesman': Linda Loman
Dir: Anne Rice
'Picnic': Rosemary
Standardized patient for UCSF Med students training.
Domestic
Violence Training (actor,victim,survivor) for SF Police Academy
Nat'l. training classes for Calif. state
police officers
Training:
3 years vocal study with
Edward Sayegh (studios in SF, LA and NY)/ private individual coach, vocal intensive workshops/ vocal stylization workshops.
Thank you Eddie - you guided my chords to go anywhere!
Voice, piano, languages and music theory studies at SF Conservatory
of Music. Dietrich Erbelding, Bill Mathieu
Voice Over workshop/ Taylor Korobow.
Acting
training: W. Allen Taylor, College of Marin;
Actin Coach: Larry Bedini, SF
Skills:
Can
sight read music well.
Excellent with harmonies.
Great at cold readings.
Great with copy
in hand
Mezzo - belt and legit. 4 octaves range
Can sing Alto,
Mezzo, second Soprano, first Soprano, etc!
Powerhouse voice but can bring it down to light and sweet,
yet strong.
Grazie, Eddie S. ;-D
Can sell anything, especially when it's something I truly believe
in and am passionate about.
Dialects/accents: british, cockney, french, southern (various), yiddish,
New York, Boston, fluent in spanish, semi-fluent in german, french and italian.
Can move well
Good
tennis player
Good bowler
Excellent driver (stick and automatic)
Happy Hiker
Good, creative/swimmer: watch me in the pool; you'll see what is meant
Singing balloon-gram messenger, driving
a van filled with balloons.
Good, working with children, aged 0 -108
...very
high leg kicker.
Can wiggle both ears on command
