User Name
mickact
Name
Micki Sharpe
Member Since
September 2, 2010
Bio
I am an equity actress/singer/dancer since 1985. Mother of two boys and grandmother of 3 girls (and one on the way!). I have been running and directing a drama program for the past 13 years at a high school in NC. In between the three productions a year we put up ,I perform myself at equity theatres. Right now I am working with Hedgerow theatre in Media, Pa. I have performed in numerous theatres on the East coast over the years in musicals and plays.
Educational Background
High School diploma
Training in theatre with:
Glassboro College Summer Stock program, AADA, Bobby Lewis scene study,NY, Hedgerow theatre with Ralph Roseman, Rose Shulman. Various dance/singing studios.
Number of years teaching
13
Favorite Playwright
Neil Simon, Tennesee Williams
Favorite theatrical moment
Hearing the theatre filled with laughter
Sondheim or Rodgers and Hammerstein?
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Interests
Most of my interests deal with any form of theatre. Mostly musical theatre and comedy. I also enjoy exercise, traveling and exploring, reading and learning about our world and people thru spirituality.
Something you should know about me!
Had a rough start and didn't get the chance to pursue my acting dreams on broadway. But I made lemons into lemonade and live a full life doing all sorts of theatre everyday. Acting/directing in professional, semi-professional, community and school theatres with adults and children.
Accomplishments
Drama award at graduation.
Best Actress award from area theatre.
In original production of "Nunsense" in Phila. Ran for 4 years.
Award for longest running musical in Phila.
Off broadway performance in a new musical "Pipers Song"
Off broadway performance/read for 'Sinister Sims'@ Playwrights Horizon, Circle in the Square.
Ran own theatre company performing for nursing homes, hospitals etc.
Performed in numerous musicals, plays over the years. Some tv/movies.
Gave birth to two sons.
Upcoming Projects
Just finished directing two musical theatre camps this summer.
Will be directing "Arsenic and Old Lace", "Joseph..dreamcoat this fall. directing/starring in "Nuncrackers" at Hedgerow theatre this christmas.
In March of 2011 will be directing "My Fair Lady".
School/Organization Name
Bishop McGinness High School/Hedgerow theatre
Shows You've Worked On
A little Princess, Dixie Swim Club, South Pacific, A Christmas Carol, the musical, Little Women, Peter Pan, Oklahoma, Footloose, HSM, The Philadelphia Story, for the past year and a half.
