Kaylah Marr
(518) 379-6003
Education
Ithaca College Class of 2020, BA Theater Studies with a minor in History
Ithaca College London Center, Fall 2018
Dramaturgy
Experience
December 2023-January 2024 – Maria Rasputin in Spangleland by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos – New Play Dramaturg for four early drafts
April 2020 – Rye Bread by Audrey Lang,
with Theatrists Theatrics at Ithaca College, via
Zoom
Production – Dramaturg,
New Play Dramaturg
December 2019 – Antigone Project, with Ithaca College Theater
Arts – One of two Production
Dramaturgs
February 2019 – The Old Maid and the Thief and The Medium
by Giancarlo Menotti, with Ithaca College
Theater Arts
Production – Production Dramaturg
June-August
2018
Independent Researcher with Ithaca College
Summer Scholars – The Life of Antonin Artaud,
and the “Theatre of
Cruelty”
April 2018 – The Diaries of Adam and Eve from The Apple
Tree by Bock and Harnick, with Ithaca College
Theater Arts – Production Dramaturg
Other Recent or Relevant Theater
Experience
December 2016 – Songs for a New World by Jason Robert
Brown with Ithaca Theater Collective – Assistant Director
Special Skills
Lobby Design and Display
Stage Combat
-Certified by The British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat in Unarmed (Expired December 8, 2021)
-Experience with Rapier and Shortsword, but not certified
Language Skills
-Able to read some Spanish
-Rudimentary understanding of Welsh, Latin, and Italian (in that order)
-Understanding of Greek Alphabet
Historical Knowledge
-History of Scotland from the Iron Age to 1750
-History of Ireland from the Famine through the Troubles
-Interwar Europe
-American Reconstruction
-I can talk a lot about Arthurian Romance and Welsh Myth
Musical
-Trained Singer (Musical Theatre, Classical, Celtic and American Folk)
-Basic Music Theory
-Basic Piano Skill
Misc.
-Able to identify Birds, Rocks, Clouds, Gothic Architecture, and Swords
-Scottish, Irish, and sometimes English Accents
-A lot of really neat pieces of trivia
-Can accurately pronounce
“Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch”
-Enjoys assembling Dramaturgy Packets for non-theatrical media, as a hobby and as practice
when not working on a play.
-When I write, I like liminality, uncertainty, and death.
References
Dr. Walter Byong-sok Chon
Joan O’Dwyer
Norm Johnson