JUEGOS Cast Profiles

Cast Profiles for JUEGOS

Marda Rose
Founder and producer of VIDA

• Birthday: July 29
• Born in Mentor, Ohio
• Doctoral student in Hispanic Linguistics
• Other interests: Theatre, dance

• Favorite books and movies: Harry Potter, Water for Elephants
• I love: theatre, second language adquisition, linguistics

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Alexi Turbow
Stage manager and Assistant director

• Birthday: May 19
• Hometown: LaPorte, IN
• Senior in Journalism
• Other interests: Tennis, running, reading, baking

• Favorite Quote: “I plan to live forever...so far so good.” ~Stephen Wright
• Other interests: Spain, traveling, running, curling up with a good book
• I like Patatas bravas and brownies. I also like anything by Almodovar or books by Jodi Picoult
• I don't like it when people are late or when they don't call me back when they're supposed to

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Eva Helene d'Ambrosio
Assistant director

• Birthday: April 28
• Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
• Senior in Economics and American Studies
• Other interests: Intramural wiffleball

• Favorite Quote: “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.” ~Dr. Seuss
• About VIDA: This is my fourth year with VIDA, and I'd like to thank Marda for creating such a great organization

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Cara Kinnally
Director of “Resguardo personal”

• Birthday: February 1
• Hometown: Aurora, Illinois
• Doctoral student (third year) in Spanish and Portuguese and American Studies
• Other interests: Playing bass guitar, Photography, Recreational Biking

• Favorite Quote: “I'm interested in things.” ~They Might be Giants; “Very well then I contradict myself.” ~Walt Whitman
• Favorite Movies/Books: The Royal Tenenbaums, American Beauty, Raymond Carver’s short stories, David Sedaris’s Me Talk Pretty One Day, Pablo Neruda's poetry, Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, Isabel Allende’s Cuentos de Eva Luna
• I love my family and hate elitism

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Talar Kharadjian
Marta, in “Resguardo Personal”

• Birthday: January 12
• Hometown: Tarzana, CA
• Masters student (first year) in Comparative Literature
• Other interests: translation, soccer, movies

• Favorite books and movies: Como Agua para Chocolate, Being John Malkovich, The Royal Tenenbaums
• I love color-coding; I also like to accessorize and words with accents
• I don't like traffic and silence

• About my character: I love her ability to express emotions that I generally never have. By playing this role, I've learned how to be hysterical, angry, and in a way, how to be a manipulative woman

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Chelsea Ault
Remedios, in “El censo”

• Birthday: May 4
• Hometown: Batesville, IN
• Undergraduate student (third year) in Education (Spanish), Theatre and Drama
• Sports/Interests/Hobbies: dancing, singing, playing violin, being active in my church, hanging out with friends

• Favorite Food: Pizza
• Favorite Movies/Books: Fireproof, The Holiday, Notting Hill
• Favorite Quote: We ran into each other at the intersexual, I mean the homosection. -In and Out
• I love it when people smile, tell jokes and are courteous. I care a lot about my family, my friends, and love in general.
• I dislike contention and controversy

• The great thing about my character is the bodysuit. I've learned that I like funny roles by playing her.

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Emily Patterson
Director of “Una mariposa blanca”

• I love electric blue!

Anita Park
Co-director of “Una mariposa blanca”

• Birthday: January 24
• Hometown: London, Canada
• Doctoral candidate in Literatures in Spanish
• Other interests: languages, music, the arts, NPR, cooking, and generally all things creative

• Favorite books and movies: short stories by Julio Cortázar or Jorge Luis Borges
• I love Pilates, slow food, the sound of teacups and footsteps in old movies, and persimmons
• I dislike harsh chemicals and running out of ink for my printer

• About VIDA: This is my second time co-directing. I love the creativity that I'm seeing in our rehearsals, and I've also learned a lot from my co-directora.

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Valkyrie Savage
Old Lady, in “Una mariposa blanca”

• Birthday: July 15
• Hometown: Urbana, IL
• Undergraduate student (fourth year) in Informatics and Math
• Other interests: Parkour, Frisbee, bicycles, inventing, traveling

• Favorite Quote: “Do or do not, there is no try.” ~Yoda
• I like to eat and I like books and films that make me think; I also like bright colors, problems without solutions, thinking about life, anything involving adventure
• I don't like mayonnaise, dirt under my fingernails, closed-minded people

• About my character: I like her eccentricity. In playing this character, I've learned that one need not be sane in order to change one's life.

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Grupo de Teatro VIDA		VIDA Theatre Group

Grupo de Teatro VIDA

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