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SF Bay Area, California
Immobile: (415) 491-9723
Mobile: (415) 299-0996
E-mail: dariabau@gmail.com
Height:
5'6
Weight: 150
Hair: brown
Eyes: blue
Voice:
MEZZO (3 1/2 octave range) ~ belt and legit
Equity status: non-equity,
emc candidate
female
Caucasian
Stage work:
'Tosca' chorus - mezzo, Berkeley Opera Company,
Director: Jonathan Khuner Producer: Barbara Heroux
'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,
Vicki Martinez > Hoochi Doo Productions with Ross Valley Players
'Sweeney Todd':
Ensemble/Soprano, Dir: Jeff Wiesen, Independent Actors of Marin (IAM)
'Most Happy Fella',
Marie, Dir: Carrie Sugarman, Novato Theater Company
'Annie' encore production, Mrs.
Pugh, Dir: Carrie Sugarman, Novato Theater Company,
'Man of La Mancha': Antonia, 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
Film:
background
'To
My Surprise' featured background/talk show audience, Dir: Nina Lescher/Scary Cow Productions
Screened and film
won 1st prize at Scary Cow Productions -Round 6- Victoria Theater, SF, Ca. Oct-2008.
'James Bond',
'View To A Kill',
'Maxie'
In this film, I was blessed to be part of Ruth Gordon's very last film
RIP Ruth G.
'True Believer'
'Copycat'
'Beaches'
Television:
Featured extra: 'Midnight Caller': Women's Jail Warden;
background roles:
'Partners
In Crime'
'Midnight Caller'
'Nash Bridges',
'Journeyman' NBC
NBC's
'Trauma' > fair booth vendor
'Trauma' featured: ER room and waiting room
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
Apple.com, lifestyle shoot, Production - NTropic/ SF.
Subaru: web/print ad.
Subaru
owners with bumper sticker(s)
Gatorade: SAG commercial, Harvest
Productions, dir: Baker Smith,
Tours De France - European spectator
Voiceover
work:
'Narrator' 'The Good Egg' docutrailer for doc about Invitro fertilization
'Janet'
'The Cheeky Dimension' book/play by KDReady
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
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.
Voice, piano, languages and music theory studies at SF Conservatory of Music.
Dietrich
Erbelding, Bill Mathieu
class/Elaine Clark (author of 'Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is')
Voice
Over workshop/ Taylor Korobow.
Acting: W. Allen Taylor, College of Marin;
Proud member of Theatre Bay Area
http://www.theatrebayarea.org
Skills:
Can sight read music well.
Excellent
with harmonies.
Mezzo - belt and legit.
Can sing Alto, Mezzo, Second Soprano, First Soprano
Powerhouse voice but can bring it down to light and sweet, yet strong.
Can sell
anything, especially when it's something I truly believe in and am passionate about.
Dialects/accents:
british, french, southern, fluent in spanish, semi-fluent in german, french and italian.
Good mover
Good tennis player
Great ping-pong player
Good bowler
Happy Hiker, swimmer
High leg kicker!