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Winner of the Best Female Solo Award at the SF Fringe in 2004 and 2006, Mia returns with a darkly comic valentine. "..beautifully written and performed...Cheerfully delivering crisp aphorisms, delving into the nitty-gritty of relationships gone bad, Paschal's forceful stage presence can be hypnotic. She hones in on little bits of life that all of us experience but never bother to articulate." "... she dived into my heart and soul...acting out the truth of our collective, yet unique, experiences of romance, lust, comfort, and longing for connection." "...intense, deliberate, dreamy, poetic, rhythmic, entrancing, human in every sense imaginable, profound.... phenomenal." ADDITIONAL INFO FOR WEB: I'm on FaceBook as Mia Paschal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TU3mRJmKNY Mia Paschal bio: Mia Paschal moved to San Francisco from Milan, Italy to study with Ed Hooks. As an undergraduate at Harvard, Mia studied acting with David Wheeler; she later studied with Bill Hickey at the HB Studio in New York. In Paris, Stockholm, Helsinki and Milan, she appeared in a number of independent films and video projects. In San Francisco, she has also studied with Bruce Williams and David Ford. Mia has performed in a number of plays and independent films in the Bay
Area. She produced and performed in Heroes Theatre Company's St. Valentine's
Day Massacre, a collection of comedic and dramatic scenes about dysfunctional
relationships. She produced, directed and acted in After the Fall by Arthur
Miller (Maggie), Harold Pinter's The Lover, and Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra).
Mia also acted in several productions of the Rough Theatre Company's Daytrippers,
one-acts conceived, written, rehearsed and performed in 24 hours, one of
which won Best of the Fringe 2001, as well as Best New Fringe Idea. One
of her most personally gratifying theatrical experiences was performing
in A Loud Little Handful, Greg Beuthin's site-specific production of works
dealing with the aftermath of war and violence, directed by Emily Koch.
She also wrote, produced, and directed the digital feature The Art of Etiolation
which premiered at the EXIT Theatre's DIVAfest in May 2004. She made her
singi! In September 2004, her show "some life", directed by Emily Koch, won the Best Female Solo Performance award at the San Francisco Fringe Festival, and continued its run at the EXIT Theatre's DIVAFest, and in a subsequent co-production with the EXIT. Her next work, "This Lily Was (Fontana)", received the Best of the Fringe - Best Female Dramatic Solo Award at the the 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival, and was performed at the Marsh in San Francisco, as part of the Marsh Rising series in January 2007, at the 2007 Rogue Performance Festival in Fresno, where the Fresno Bee selected it as a Top Five pick of the Rogue, and at the Iowa Fringe Festival in Des Moines. Her latest solo play, "Along the Path of Larks and Swallows", was chosen as a Top Pick of the Rogue by the Fresno Bee. CURTIS OVERACRE (lighting designer) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||