MICHAELA LIND
Actor // Performer // Creator
Rep: BiCoastal MGMT NYC
917.696.8579
I am a Swedish Portuguese performer, actor, and singer transplanted from Scandinavia to NYC, where I now reside since 2005.
I have performed with the Chinese Children's opera in Beijing, Street performed in Europe, Mexico, and NYC, played Shakespeare at a castle in Sweden, Walked on stilts in the Arizona Desert, danced on stilts for Gypsy Punk Rock band Bad Buka, and played a solo show at Edinburgh Fringe. I am a member of the all female NYC clown troupe, Clown’s Ex Machina led by Kendall Cornell, and a member of Shakespeare in the Parking Lot which performs in parking lots and Bryant Park. Theater/Clown training highlights: GITIS/Russian Academy of Theater Arts; CUNY Baccalaureate Program with a degree in Ritual Focused Performance Techniques from Hunter and Brooklyn College; Slava Polunin's Moulin Jaune in Paris, and Jango Edward’s Nouveau Clown Institute. As a professional singer, I sing Swedish Acapella in NYC at various private parties and Scandinavian companies around town. I am the founder of the theater company, ARA.
THEATER
The Crucible Betty Paris/Sarah Good Rose Bonczek// Gershwin Theater
Spring Awakening Ilse/Mask/Puppets Jonathan Hadley// The New Workshop Theater
Poetics: A Ballet Brut Dancer Kelly Copper/Pablo Lisa // The Public Theater
Clown’s Full Tilt Clown Kendal Cornell // LaMaMa Etc
The Cherry Orchard Carlotta Ivanova Peter Petkovsek// Columbia Stages
Prawns a la Indigo Elizabeth Lii Mirenka Cechova// Dixon Place
The Vanishing Play Roogie Sister Daniel Nelson// Ontological Theater
The Midsummer Nights Dream Fairy kingdom Kathy Curtis// Shakespeare in the Parkinglot
Fools Mass Jorunn Matt Mittler (NYC)
The Pillowman Mother Rhett Martinez// New Workshop Theater
Laugh out Loud Lucy Jef Johnson// Theater for the New City
Lorca! Duende! Lorca Orietta Crispino//TheaterLab
Clownical Trials Shadow Jef Johnson// TheaterLab
Lost and Found: Hexis Laika Belinda Mello// West End Theater
Landscapes Stilts/Vocals Carpetbag Brigade//Ursula Brezborn//
Much Ado About Nothing Maid Helena Peter Book// Steninge Castle (Sweden)
Clown’s Dreams Masks/Puppets/Clown Felix Ivanoov (Edinburgh Fringe Scotland)
Female Transport Tommy Peter Book( Stening Castle Sweden)
Romeo and Julia Highway Julia Josef Lamy (Sweden)
Saint Anne’s Robe Vocal/Stilts/Clown Jay Ruby// Circus stella (Canada)
Choir/Tours/Acapella Soprano Viggo Lofqrantz( Sweden//China//Spain)
Tinyville Talent Felicity Mette Ronne (Denmark)
Remember Forgetting Finding Stilts Alicia Gerstein//Michaela Lind//Various Venues NYC
My Birthday Clown/Creator Directorial Assistance, Kendall Cornell
Midsummer Nights Dream Mechanicals Drilling Company// Bryan Park
The Bad Un's Clown/Performer Clown's Ex Machina// LaMaMa Etc
ON CAMERA
Informercial Girl Apoteket Pharmacy (Sweden)
Industrial Shopper Billy Linker (Brickhouse Prod)
TRAINING/EDUCATION
Acting: GITIS-Russian Academy of Theater Arts, 2 Year Diploma; Michael Howard Studio conservatory, Austin Pendleton,
Tracy Bersley, Larry Singer, Fay Simpson, Alexey Burago, Vladimir Koifman
Shakespeare: Shakespeare & Co, Shakespeare Forum NYC
Voice: Pamela Thomas, Jan Horvath, Ulrika Skogby
VoiceOver: Justin Barret (The Barrow Group)
Speech: David Wells, Amanda Quaid, Francine Zerfas
On Camera: Heidi Marshall, Fiona Graham
Physical Theater: Carpetbag Brigade (Stilts), Nemcatacoa (Butoh), Grotest Maru, Jessica Burr (Viewpoints), Adam Lazarus( bouffon)Jef Johnson (Clown), Kendall Cornell (Clown)(ongoing), Aitor Basauri ( Clown) Felix Ivanov (Puppets & Movement),Avner the Eccentric (Clown), PIT (Improv), Belinda Mello (Alexander) Movement Research NYC ( contact Improv & modern dance), Tony De Mayer & Gennadi N. Bogdanov ( Mayerhold Biomechanics)
GARDEN OF FOOLS & NOUVEAU CLOWN INSTITUTE: (diploma) Slava Polunin, Jango Edwards, David Shiner, Ira Seideinstein (ongoing)
Directing: Austin Pendleton, Rose Bonzcek
Sound design: Bhurin Sead
SPECIAL SKILLS
Fluent in Swedish & English // Dialects: British, Eastern European // Voice: 1Soprano (2soprano/1alto) //
Acro Stilts, Masks, Puppetry, Beg Yoga, Beg Chi gong, Beg Pole//Piano, Jew Harp, Jewelry Making, crafting//Swimming and High-dive// Contact Improv, Modern Dance// Valid Drivers License and dual Passports. Basic Photography and Adobe Creative cloud, Soundtrap and Audacity, Blue Yeti available.
Bachelor of Science - City University of New York: Ritual Focused Performance Techniques (honored a Thomas W Smith Scholarship & Skandia Liv's Cultural Scholarship.
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