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Celeste Innocenti
Artistic Director, Chronos Theatre Group www.chronostheatre.com celeste@chronostheatre.com (619) 981-4179 Age range: 40s – 50s Height: 5’1” Weight: 110 Eyes: Dark brown Hair: Red brown Media Film/Video Probe, Lauren (lead), Mercury Cinema, Roman Koenig Stare Therapy, Tessa Gambos (lead), Mercury Cinema, Roman Koenig Supernormal, Mercury Cinema, Roman Koenig World Wild West, Mercury Cinema, Roman Koenig TV/Cable Commedia and the Roots of Slapstick, Guest, KPBS-TV, Beth Accomando Opera Talk: Pagliacci, commedia dell'arte (Colombina), UCSD-TV, Dr. Nick Reveles (host) Opera Talk: Pagliacci, Guest, UCSD-TV, Dr. Nick Reveles (host) Arts Update, Host, Manhattan Beach Public Art Program Radio/Podcast Twice Begun by Reina Lisa Menasche (audio book) Commedia and the Roots of Slapstick, Guest, KPBS-FM, Beth Accomando Talk of San Diego, Guest, Susanna Peredo Swap (host) La Mesa Centennial Spirits, Opera Singer, Miriam Raftery Haunted Halloween, Paranormal Caller, KRS Radio, Jyl Kaneshiro San Diego Theatre Scene, Guest, Dale Morris (host) The Lounge, Guest, Dia de los Muertos, KPBS-FM, Dirk Sutro (host) The Lounge, Guest, Valentine's Day, KPBS-FM, Dirk Sutro (host) Theater Original Performances Madame Olga’s Literary Séance, Madame Olga/Mary Shelley/Edgar Allen Poe, Write Out Loud, Old Town SHP Un Corrido de la Calavera Catrina, Catrina, Old Adobe Chapel, SOHO, Old Town San Diego The Treasures of Josie Earp, AASD Actors Festival, Saint Cecilia's, San Diego Full Productions The Elephant Man, Pinhead/Countess/Princess, Backyard Renaissance/Oceanside Theater companies, Christopher Williams and Fran Gercke The Balcony, Madame Irma, Chronos Theatre Group, 10th Avenue Arts Center, Rhys Green and Celeste Innocenti Zoot Suit, Dolores (understudy), San Diego Rep, Kirsten Brandt Scandal in St. Florian Valley, Mayor’s Wife, Chronos Theatre Group, Victory Theater, Ivan Rupnik Yelizaveta Bam, Yelizaveta Bam, Chronos Theatre Group, Swedenborg Hall, Ivan Rupnik King Lear, Gonoril (understudy), San Diego Rep, Todd Salovey Trojan Women, Chorus Leader/Musical Director, Ion Theatre, Claudio Raygoza King Lear, Gonoril, Vanguard Theatre, Westminster Hall, Tom Haine Yerma, Various Roles, Chronos Theatre Group, Swedenborg Hall, Doug Hoehn Shakuntala, Sanumati, Chronos Theatre Group, Swedenborg Hall, Celeste Innocenti The Coffee Shop, Vittoria, Chronos Theatre Group, Swedenborg Hall, Celeste Innocenti and Sandy Hotchkiss Frogs, Chorus Leader, The Theatre Inc., Douglas Lay Rocky Road, Mother, New Perspectives Festival, Swedenborg Hall, Sally Stockton Bloody Poetry, Mary Shelley, 6th@Penn Theatre, Doug Hoehn The Sad Tale of Ali Ali, Maryam, 6th@Penn Theatre, Natalie Sentz Children of Heracles, Chorus/Musical Director, 6th@Penn Theatre, Delicia Turner Sonnenberg Hippolytus, Aphrodite/Artemis/Chorus, 6th@Penn Theatre, Marc Overton Reckless, Trish/Other Characters, 6th@Penn Theatre, Kevin Burke Changing Rainbows, Lucinda, Ensemble Arts, Glynn Bedington Death By Survival, Pepita, Vantage Theatre, Centro Cultural, Dori Salerno The Waiting Room, Wanda, Asian American Rep, Sandra Kraus Women Behind Bars, Guadalupe, Diversionary Theatre, Lois Miller Return Engagements, Miranda (Aubrey Award nominee), Lamplighters Theater, Margo Essman Cowboy Bo, Chief’s Wife, AASD Actors Festival, Lyceum Theater, Jason Connors Edith Wharton, Zeena Frome, AASD Actors Festival, Carlsbad Playreaders, St Cecilia’s, Barbara Elliott Milk, Sheila, AASD Actors Festival, St. Cecilia's, Rosina Reynolds A Distant Kiss, Lisa, Octad One, Reina Menasche Comedy of Errors, Adriana, Shakespeare Festival, Zorro Gardens, Christopher R All's Well That Ends Well, Widow of Florence, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Jack Zerbe Twelfth Night, Ensemble, Globe Playhouse, L.A. Staged Readings Accidental Death of An Anarchist, Maria Feletti, Chronos Theatre Group, La Jolla Library, Sandra Cortez The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, Giulio/Various Characters, Intrepid Shakespeare, Ruff Yeager Margin of Error, Sunita Savarkar Myrvald, Moxie Theatre, Ruff Yeager The Balcony, Madame Irma, Chronos Theatre Group, 10th Avenue Arts Center, Bryant Hernandez Seven, Farida Azizi, Moxie Theatre, Delicia T. Sonnenberg Elliot, A Soldier’s Story, Ginny, Carlsbad Playreaders, Dori Salerno Shades of Poe, Reader, Write Out Loud, various trolley stops, Old Town SHP, Veronica Murphy and Walter Ritter A Very Jewish King, Iris, San Diego Rep, Todd Salovey The Master Builder, Narrator, characters, ion, Academy of Performing Arts, Glenn Paris When We Dead Awaken, Maya, ion, ion, Lyceum Theatre, Glenn Paris The Tempest, Ariel, San Diego Shakespeare Society, Westminster Hall, Jack Winans Much Ado About Nothing, Margaret, San Diego Shakespeare Society, Westminster Hall, Jack Winans Othello, Bianca, Shakespeare Society, Westminster Hall, Jack Winans W;t, Students/Technicians, North Coast Rep, UCSD, Jack Banning The Waiting Room, Wanda, AASD On Book On Stage, North Coast Rep, Steve Gallion Richard II, Bushy/Willoughby/others, Lyceum Theatre, Natalie Sentz Flags, Narrator, Lyceum, Delicia Turner Sonnenberg The Private Room, Anna Perelli, Lyceum Theatre, Bill Fennelly Kingdom of Shadows, Olga/Zinaida, Lyceum Theatre, Barbara Chronowsky Summer and Smoke, Rosa Gonzalez/Rosemary, AASD On Book On Stage, Ensemble Arts Theater, Jack Winans Social Security, Barbara, Carlsbad Playreaders, Steve Gallion Evita & Victoria, Eva Peron, Carlsbad Playreaders, Gabriel Romero (bilingual reading) Like Water for Chocolate, Mama/Rosaura/Gertrudis, Carlsbad Playreaders, Pola Allen (bilingual reading) Crossing Delancy, Izzy, Carlsbad Playreaders, Pat Hansen The Cherry Orchard, Carlotta, AASD and Moscow Art Theater exchange, San Diego State University, Summer and Smoke, Rosa Gonzales, Ensemble Arts Theatre, Jack Winans Chronos Theatre Group Staged Readings The Balcony, Irma, Tenth Avenue Arts Center, Bryant Hernandez Agamemnon, Cassandra, Encinitas Library Don Juan Tenorio, Prioress/others, Victory Theater The Divine Comedy, Swedenborg Hall The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Lyceum Theatre Grandee’s Son Takes the Wrong Career, Zhao Ruby Plum, Lyceum Theatre Yelizaveta Bam, Yelizaveta Bam, Lyceum Theatre The Rubaiyat, Narrator, Lyceum Theatre Peace, Chorus Leader, Lyceum Theatre, Doug Hoehn Penthesilea, Penthesilea, Lyceum Theatre, Doug Hoehn The Gaol Gate, Mary Cahel, Lyceum Theatre, Doug Hoehn Gilgamesh, Ishtar, New World Stage Agamemnon, Cassandra, New World Stage Birds, The Nightingale, 6th@Penn Theatre Dr. Faustus, Mephistophilis, Lyceum Theatre, Doug Hoehn Athaliah, Josabeth, 6th@Penn Theatre Lysistrata, Myrrhine, 6th@Penn Theatre Fuente Ovejuna, Isabella, 6th@Penn Theatre Shakuntala, Sanumati, 6th @ Penn Theatre Menaechmi, Erotium/Wife, 6th@Penn Theatre Grassroots Greeks Staged Reading Series Medea, Medea, SDSU, David Cohen Antigone, Antigone, 6th@Pann, Linda Castro Agamemnon, Cassandra Trojan Women, Cassandra Ajax, Tecmessa Prometheus Bound, Io Libation Bearers, Electra Lysistrata, Myrrhine The Eumenides, The Pythia Hippolytos, Artemis Rhesus, Athena Suppliant Women, Evadne Oedipus at Colonus, Ismene Seven Against Thebes, Antigone Orestes, The Phrygian Alcestis, Death, 6th@Penn, Sledgehammer Electra, Chorus Leader, 6th@Penn Andromache Heracles Oedipus Tyrranus Ion Helen Hecuba The Bacchae Medea Phoenician Women Suppliants Iphegenia in Aulis Women of Trachis Iphegenia in Tauris Children of Heracles Philoctetes The Persians Touring Educational Productions Dr. Wilderness Show, Magician’s Assistant, San Diego County Water Authority When Books Come Alive, Mom, South Bay Unified, Reina Menasche Literature Alive, Various characters, Literature Alive, Musical Direction Trojan Women, Chorus Leader/Musical Director, Ion Theatre, Claudio Raygoza Yerma, Various Roles/Musical Director, Chronos Theatre Group, Swedenborg Hall, Doug Hoehn Children of Heracles, Chorus/Musical Director, 6th@Penn Theatre, Delicia Turner Sonnenberg Grassroots Greeks Reading Series, Ensemble/Musical Director, Linda Castro and David Cohen Theater Administration Work History San Diego Performing Arts League Theater Week Marketing Committee, Vice Chair (2015) Chronos Theatre Group, Artistic Director (2005-2015) 6th@Penn Theatre, Assistant to Producer (2002-2005) San Diego Performing Arts League, Marketing Assistant (2005) Education and Training Education B.A. Linguistics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA American University of Rome, Rome, Italy, Semester Abroad Shakespeare Santa Cruz (intern), U. C. Santa Cruz Acting Courses and Training Acting and theater classes, Pomona College, Pat Madsen, Bret Lyon, Ike Saunders Acting Shakespeare, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, U. C. Santa Cruz, Jack Zerbe Voice and Bodywork, Santa Monica, Bret Lyon Shakespeare Master Class, Westminster Presbyterian, Jonathan McMurtry Shakespeare, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, Richard Easton Acting Shakespeare, Actors Alliance of San Diego, James Winker Shakespeare, Actors Alliance of San Diego, Eric Grishkat Acting, Actors Alliance of San Diego, Doug Jacobs Audition techniques, San Diego Repertory Theater, Todd Salovey Audition Preparation, San Diego Repertory Theater, Jeffrey Meek Commedia dell'arte, Chronos Theatre Group, Ivan Rupnik Chorus and mask work seminar, The Getty Center, Los Angeles Summer theater program, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Special Skills Studied techniques such as Chekhov, Stanislavsky, Meyerholdt (Biomechanics), Viewpoints, and others Improv, commedia dell’arte training and mask work; Greek chorus specialist Singer (mezzo soprano); sight-reading skills; familiar with world music and ethnic styles Vocal technique and training, including Linklater and other methods; knowledge of IPA and Phonetics Speak, read, and write Italian, Spanish, French, German, some Armenian Foreign accents and regional American and English dialects Dance/movement training (modern/jazz/bellydance/various ethnic styles) Fencing, archery; historical interpretation and re-enactments Educational theater, teaching background (theater, ESL, English, History, and other subjects) Theater administration, house management, box office, and Costume DesignCostuming and Design Experience
Costume Staff UCSD Theater Department/La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA Wardrobe supervisor for graduate student productions. Pomona College Theater Department, Claremont, CA Assistant to the Staff Costumer Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI Assistant to the Staff Costumer Theater Costuming San Diego Fringe Festival Men and Juliet, immersive theater and dance performance, directed by Ana Nieto Vanguard Theatre King Lear, directed by Thomas Haine The Fritz Blitz Vial, directed by Jason Connors AASD Actors Festival Cowboy Bo and the Train Whistle, directed by Jason Connors Little Brown Mice, directed by Doug Hoehn 6th@Penn Theatre War, directed by Jason Connors The Sad Tale of Mr. Ali Ali, directed by Natalie Sentz Children of Heracles, directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg Hippolytus, directed by Marc Overton Reckless, directed by Kevin Burk The Mysterious Mr. Love, directed by Jack Banning A Prayer For My Daughter, directed by Robert May Chronos Theatre Group Numerous productions from diverse time periods and cultures. Globe Playhouse, Los Angeles, CA Twelfth Night, directed by Hamlet, directed by Video/Film/TV UCSD-TV Opera Talk: Pagliacci with Dr. Nick Reveles. Commedia dell’arte costumes. West Port Productions Costumer/stylist for TV commercials Historical and Period Costuming Fiesta de Reyes Las Posadas, an annual performance and a traditional event in Old Town (5 years) Old Town San Diego State Historic Park The Inauguration of Juan Osuna, a theatrical historic re-enactment, Richard Rivera and Celeste Innocenti Our Stories, first person narratives, Chronos Theatre Group and the Descendants of Old Town, Victor Contreras Children's Theater J Company Fiddler on the Roof, directed by Joey Landwehr. San Diego Junior Theatre Stone Soup Feeds the World, directed by Jason Connors. Nominated for the National Youth Theater Award for Outstanding Costume Design. South Bay Unified School District Designed and made costumes for traveling educational shows A Dental Line, directed by Reina Menasche The Brain Game When Books Come Alive Education and Training Education Pomona College, Claremont, CA, B.A. Linguistics American University of Rome, Rome, Italy Shakespeare Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz Costume Courses and Training San Diego Continuing Education, Point Loma, CA Patternmaking, Jeannie Reith Pomona College, Claremont, CA B.A. Linguistics Work/study training in theatrical costuming Special Skills Costume design for theater, dance, and video Sewing and costume construction, tailoring techniques Patternmaking, cutting, and draping skills Millinery, corsetry, and period costuming for historic productions and re-enactments Mask making Video ProductionVideo Experience
Producer, Writer, Director Chronos Theatre Group, San Diego, CA Artistic Director of a non-profit theatre group. Development, marketing, publicity, website design and maintenance. Plan season; create, produce, cast, direct, and publicize performances and special events. Direct and edit video promos for performances. Dreamtime Productions, San Diego, CA Writer, producer, director, and designer for short films, music videos, and other projects. Manhattan Beach Public Arts Program, Manhattan Beach, CA Wrote and produced a video series, Arts Update, for local cable. Also on-camera host. Focus on Video, Manhattan Beach, CA Wrote, produced, and edited a series of educational and promotional videos for non-profit organizations. Also did voice-overs and narration. Technology Manhattan Beach City Schools, Manhattan Beach, CA District library media center supervisor. Responsible for ordering, using, and maintaining media equipment, including video cameras and other technology, videotaped school events. Cable TV liaison for the District. Production Assistant The Wolfe Company, Los Angeles, CA Production assistant for music video production company. on a variety of shoots in the L. A. area. Bob Fox Productions, Los Angeles, CA Production assistant for shoots in L.A. and San Francisco for a small independent production company.. West Port Productions, Los Angeles, CA Production assistant and stylist for freelance commercial production company. Neil Boyer Photography, Redondo Beach Assistant to commercial photographer. Helped in the studio and on shoots in various capacities as needed, from go-fer to stylist to receptionist. The Friedman Agency, Los Angeles, CA Pre-production and temp work in a variety of L.A. production companies. Education and Training Education Pomona College, Claremont, CA, B.A. Linguistics American University of Rome, Rome, Italy Shakespeare Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz Video Courses and Training Video Production, Grossmont College Cinematography, San Diego City College Screenwriting, Los Angeles City College Sony Video Training Course (Certificate), South Bay Adult School, Torrance, CA Special Skills Professional theatre and video production (actor/producer/writer/director). Video and audio editing skills (Final Cut, iMovie, Audacity, others). Camera, lighting and audio experience Extensive teaching experience with a variety of age groups. Speak several languages, including Italian, Spanish, French, and German. |
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