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SF Bay Area, California -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 (3 and one/half octave 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
Women/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' (premiering on NBC Sept. 2007)
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:
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, in spite of you (and me) You made my chords go ev'rywhere ;-D
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.
Mezzo -
belt and legit. 3 1/2 octaves range
Can sing Alto, Mezzo, second Soprano, first Soprano.
Powerhouse voice
but can bring it down to light and sweet, yet strong.
Grazie, Eddie S. ;-D
Can sell anything, especially
when it is 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 1 -108
...very high leg kicker.
Can wiggle both ears on command
