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Michelle Brandt
Michelle Brandt is a senior at St. Edward's University, where she is working towards a degree in theatre arts with an emphasis in acting. Her most recent credits there include August Strindberg's The Stronger as Madame X and daba-daba-ing in Cy Coleman's City of Angels as the female brunette of the narrating quartet. In the fall of 2010, she had the great honor to play Angelique (Angelina) in a contemporary translation of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid. Additional credits at legendary Mary Moody Northen Theatre include performing in On the Town as a featured dancer and with Summer Stock Austin in Oklahoma! as Dream Laurie and in Batboy: The Musical! as Miss Daisy. Michelle also recently directed her first play at MMNT, a ten-minute "psychic" comedy entitled Token to the Moon.
Michelle has been an instrumental part of DA! since its inception, performing in both versions of Direct Object ("Bandyland"), Relative Space, and originating the roles of the rhyming Heron in Heron and Crane and tap-dancing heroic hostess Lorraine Peachtree in Leave it to Beverly.
In addition to her work with DA!, Michelle played Beluga in Larius Likler at Hyde Park Theatre. And if you'd like to know how to take your accounting degree and become a Texas certified CPA, she can tell you! She was recently featured in the film On Your Way to be a Texas CPA, issued by the Texas State Board of Accountancy. Other favorite acting credits include Madame Thenardier in Les Miserables, Belva in The Lottery, and Gilmer in Godspell.
Michelle has spent every June since 2007 as a counselor and dance captain for the Texas Arts Project camp, an intensive pre-professional summer training program at St. Stephen's Episcopal School. She has spent many years studying and training in classical ballet, the Cecchetti Method, tap, jazz, lyrical dance, modern dance, acting, and voice in the greater Austin area; she looks forward to growing more and more as an artist in central Texas. Before graduating from St. Edward's, she will play Alexandra in Eric Overmyer's On The Verge in March and will present her acting thesis, an object-based solo performance, in April.
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PROJECTS
Our Marvelous Mountain Goat
This past fall, Michelle performed the role of Angelique (Angelina) in a contemporary translation of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid as part of St. Edward's University's 2010-11 Production Season. Don't miss her final Main Stage performance as a student: this spring, Michelle will be featured on the Mary Moody Northern Stage as Alexandra in On the Verge or the Geography of Yearning, Eric Overmeyer's vibrant and comedic tale of three Victorian explorers.
On the Verge of Graduating
You also have the chance to see Michelle's Acting Thesis: an object-based solo piece, which will be revealed in April 2011 at St. Edward's Mary Moody Northern Theatre. Come support her final performance requirement before graduation and see how the St. Ed's Department explores object play!
Paying it Forward
Michelle will be returning to Texas Arts Project as Dance Captain and Counselor. This is her fifth year working at this intensive pre-professional summer training program at St. Stephen's Episcopal School, following three years of attendance as a talented Dripping Springs High School Student. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge, Chel! TAP is lucky to have you on board!
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BIOGRAPHY
Michelle Brandt
is currently a student at St. Edward's University (class of 2011), where she is working towards a degree in theatre arts with an emphasis in acting. Her most recent credits there include August Strindberg's The Stronger as Madame X and daba-daba-ing in Cy Coleman's City of Angels as the female brunette of the narrating quartet. In the fall of 2010, she had the great honor to play Angelique (Angelina) in a contemporary translation of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid.
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