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aadika singh

I make theater. I love to work. I love rehearsal. I love to work with people who love to work and who love rehearsal. Much of my material is generated through improvisation. It is often movement based and sometimes site specific.

The Paper Project, to be performed in San Francisco late March, will examine my personal and historical connection to paper. It is the first overtly autobiographical project I’ve pursued. It will be staged in a dying, dirty building – one with architectural elements that impose themselves on the performer – that I have yet to find. If you know of a space that needs haunting –

 

education
university of rochester
rochester, ny
ba, english
concentration in media production
minors in theater & spanish
may 2005

gaity school of acting
d
ublin, ireland 2003-2004

maine photographic workshops
rockport, me
advanced training: film direction, screenwriting, cinematography & still photography
summer 2002

awards
Barbara Lee Rubin Prize for Creativity in Film
awarded annulaly for scholarship, creativity, or artistic accomplishment.

Best Play
University of Rochester
Todd International Theater Program
One-Act New Plays Festival

Best Director
Most Promising Female Actor

Todd Int'l Theater Program Student Toscars
shows

Intimate Nation
play written by Aadika Singh
Todd Theater,
Rochester, NY, Spring 2005

A Woman Without a Man is Like a Fish Without a Bicycle or Oysters and Peas
theater performance of three Irish texts by Sam Beckett, Martin McDonagh, and James Joyce
produced, designed, & directed: by Aadika Singh
performed by Aadika Singh & Amanda Ahrens
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Fall 2004

Resguardo Personal
La Llamada de Lauren

two plays by Paloma Pedrero produced, designed, and directed by Aadika Singh
Todd Theater, Rochester, NY
Fall 2002

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
performer -- Player King
Todd Theater, Rochester, NY Spring 2003

The Visit (Friedrich Durrenmatt)
performer -- Radio Commentator
Todd Theater, Rochester, NY, Spring 2002

The Vagina Monologues
performer -- Under the Burqa, Hair
Strong Auditorium, Rochester, NY, Spring 2002/2003

influences
Nigel Maister
Sally Fox
Agnes Benoit-Nader
Mervyn Willis
Nikita Tkachuk
Kali Quinn
Joanna Scott
Skip Greer
Brenton Hamilton
Martin McDonagh
Sam Beckett
James Joyce
Michael Haneke
links
www.tomdispatch.com
brentonhamiltonstudio.net
www.rochester.edu/theater
www.earthisland.org
www.grist.org
contact
aadika at millionfishes.com
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