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“The actresses of My Own Stranger play together like the members of a technically brilliant and sophisticated chamber music group. The glowingly young … Kymberly Mellen, the impeccably self-mocking Mary Beth Fisher, and the more deeply meditative Campbell … This is a staggeringly difficult piece to carry off, and they do it exceedingly well." – Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times, 1/30/04
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“Campbell also performs in the piece, and her bright and measured performance makes one wish she wouldn’t stay away from the stage for so long.” Lucia Mauro, Estrogen Fest 2001, Chicago
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“Campbell also performs in the piece, and her bright and measured performance makes one wish she wouldn’t stay away from the stage for so long.” Lucia Mauro, Estrogen Fest 2001, Chicago
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Acting Resume
AEA
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Theater
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Production
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WRITER'S THEATRE-Chicago
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My Own Stranger, Dir./ Kate Buckley, w/Mary Beth Fisher & Kym Mellen
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Anne Sexton
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Dear Liar, w/ Bob Scogin, Dir/ Kate Buckley
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Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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Neidecker, w/Kristine Thatcher, Dir./Kate Buckley
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Ginny Porter
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The Bear, Dir./ Michael Halberstam
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Woman
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Misalliance, Dir./ Bill Brown
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Mrs. Tarleton (standby Susan Osborn-Mott, 5 performances)
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Booth, w/Austin Pendleton
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Understudy (Annabel Armour)
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The Father, Dir. Michael Halberstam
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Understudy (Shannon Cochran)
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SHAW CHICAGO
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Heartbreak House, Dir./Bob Scogin
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Lady Utterword
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Mrs. Warren's Profession, Dir./Bob Scogin
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Mrs. Warren
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The Skin of Our Teeth, Dir./Bob Scogin
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Sabina
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OPERA OF HIGHLAND PARK
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Don Giovanni, Dir./Marla Forbes
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Narrator
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La Traviatta, Dir./Marla Forbes
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Narrator
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ESTROGEN FEST 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005
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Directed by Ann Filmer, Jessica Thebus, Kimberly Senior
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Adaptor, Writer, Performer, Producer
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ART INSTITUTE-Voices Series
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Mary Cassatt, Natalia Goncharova, Kathe Kollwitz
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Featured Performer
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OFF BROADWAY, NY, NY (Provincetown Playhouse)
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My Own Stranger (Originated Role)
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Anne Sexton
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WRITER'S THEATER-New York (representative roles)
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The Path, w/Amanda Plummer
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Mother
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The Blindfold, w/Blythe Danner
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Principal
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And That's The Way It Is, Dir./John Whitesell
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Monica Perez
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MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB & EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
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The Gospel According to Mark Twain
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Ensemble
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DIRECT THEATRE
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One/Potato/More, by Tom Fontana
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Principal
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DANGERGIELDS, DUPLEX, COMIC STRIP
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Musical Dir./Mark Hardwick
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Comedy Club Act
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WILLIAMSTOWN THEATER FESTIVAL
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The Greeks, Dir./Nikos Psacharopoulos
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Chorus Leader
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HEDGEROW THEATER
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Measure For Measure, Dir./Rose Schulman
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Isabelle
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BOARSHEAD THEATER (representative roles)
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Holy Mary, by John PiRoman
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Jacinta
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The Lion In Winter, w/William Hurt, Dan Florek, Mary Beth Hurt
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Eleanor
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Hedda Gabler
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Hedda
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Private Lives
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Amanda
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Once Upon a Mattress
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Agravain
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The Three Penny Opera, w/Anthony Heald
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Lucy Brown
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The Importance of Being Ernest
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Lady Bracknel
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SOLO PERFORMER: Perform classical and contemporary poetry and literature in various venues around Chicago including the Green Mill Tavern, Old Town School of Folk Music, the Arts Club, Northshore Country Club, Skokie Country Club, Birchwood Country Club, Evanston Women's Club, Footlik Theater, Cuneo Museum, Subterannean, DePaul University, Northwestern University, Oakton Community College, Columbia College, Harold Washington Library, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Shakespeare Rep, Union Station, private livingrooms, birthday parties, pajama parties, weddings, themed parties and the Wild Hare to name a few. Material includes: Beat poetry (Diane di Prima, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti), Shakespeare, Shaw, Milay, cummings, Joyce, Atwood, Sexton and Susan Hahn. Perform with band Milk Baby.
MIXING IT UP: Creating a full length stand up piece with 22 year old daughter Maria Merrin about a white single mother's issues and joys with raising mixed children. Performed a 12-minute segment for Estrogen Fest 2005, which the Chicago Tribune called "a spoken duet of humorous recrimination." Directed by Yolonda Androzzo.
ONE WOMEN SHOW: This 90-minute work-in-progress showcases the works of 4 women from literature, George Sand, Anne Sexton, H.D. Doolittle and Diane di Prima.
TELEVISION/RADIO: Guest Performer - Straight Talk (WOR-TV, NYC); Nickleodeon (Cable, NYC), Kaleidoscope (Cable, NYC). Studs Turkel Show (WFMT, Chicago), Mara Tapp Show (WBEZ, Chicago); On-Air Broadcast Announcer (8 yrs.) WNYE-TV, NYC.
AWARDS: "Best Actress," Holy Mary, Gannett News Service, BoarsHead Theater, Lansing, Michigan
EDUCATION AND TRAINING: Rose Shulman (Hedgerow Theater); Richard Thomsen (BoarsHead Theater); Theater/Performance Studies: Dr. Annette Martin (Eastern Michigan University-4 yrs.).
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“The actresses of My Own Stranger play together like the members of a technically brilliant and sophisticated chamber music group. The glowingly young … Kymberly Mellen, the impeccably self-mocking Mary Beth Fisher, and the more deeply meditative Campbell … This is a staggeringly difficult piece to carry off, and they do it exceedingly well." – Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times, 1/30/04
“Campbell also performs in the piece, and her bright and measured performance makes one wish she wouldn’t stay away from the stage for so long.” Lucia Mauro, Estrogen Fest 2001, Chicago
“… Program B, significantly stronger, features Mixing It Up, a spoken duet of humorous recrimination between fortysomething Marilyn Campbell who is white, and her twentysomething biracial daughter, Maria Merrin, about their battle to tame and beautify Merrin’s kinky locks.” -- Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 5/20/2005
_Holy Mary is almost impossible to do. The main character is very hard to cast,” Richard Thomsen, Artistic Director of the BoarsHead Theater says, I didn’t know anyone who could do this … and then it suddenly flashed into my head that I did know someone who could play the part. Marilyn Campbell had first worked with BoarsHead in the early 70s. She was fresh from Eastern Michigan University then, but she could tackle heavy roles like Hedda Gabler. She did more than 20 shows at BoarsHead, then headed to New York.” --Richard Thomsen interview, Lansing State Journal, 2/13/82
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Copyright 2007 Marilyn R Campbell presents Parlor Productions. All rights reserved.
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“… during the “Heavy Flow” performance I attended, the most revelatory and emotionally charged works involved the spoken word. Marilyn Campbell led a moving and meditative invocation, featuring Beat Poetess Diane di Prima’s “Ave,” which set this eclectic evening of Venus-like vitality in motion.” – Lucia Mauro, Estrogen Fest 2001
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“Marilyn Campbell is excellent as the eternal other woman Sabina in Robert Scogin’s expertly edited staged reading of Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth at the Claudia Cassidy Theatre of the Chicago Cultural Center. -- Richard Christiansen, Chicago, Tribune, 3/10/98
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“Marilyn Campbell played the role of Jacinta with evident sympathy for an increasingly disagreeable character. She also displayed such a bounty of comic skills that PiRoman’s penchant for pushing past realism into the suburbs of slapstick was well realized in her performance.”
-- The Flint Journal, 2/10/82
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“But whatever you decide about that final scene, you will undoubtedly be astounded throughout the play at Marilyn Campbell’s performance as Jacinta. Except for brief costume changes she is on stage for the entire play, aging from young womanhood to old age. Without a portrayal that was so thoroughly believable – and utterly poetic – the play couldn’t work … she is brilliant.” -- Lansing State Journal, 2/19/82
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