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Press for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]
Review for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] at North Coast Repertory Theatre, July 29, 2021. Director and Performer.
"The cast riff and scramble through Shakespeare's assembled works with impressive energy and verbal and physical agility" - North Coast Journal
"broad physicality, over-the-top shenanigans and split-second timing.... Their comedic chemistry together was indeed something special." - Times Standard
Photo by Evan Wisherrop
Photo by Evan Wisherrop
Press for Around the World in 80 Days
Ensemble devised and directed, Performer as Ms. Fix
"Cesarz is a dream of movement onstage, swooning and swooping and sneaking around. She tells us she's got "the longest legs in England" and she puts them to work."
"Around the World in 80 Days is simply the best holiday show from Dell’Arte in years."
- Mad River Union
Photo by Mark Larson
Transforming into Baba for Citizens of Nowhere
August 16 2018
Every night for the performance of CITIZENS OF NOWHERE I spent an hour and a half doing my makeup and transforming into an eighty or ninety-year-old-woman.
Check out this post about the process of doing old age makeup, and pictures of me as Baba.
Artwaves interview with Wendy Butler on KHSU
April 18, 2018
Kathryn and fellow Dell'Arte MFA 2019 students discuss their upcoming tragedy project, Citizens of Nowhere, and the experience of devising in an ensemble of eight.
December 5, 2017
Kathryn and fellow Dell'Arte MFA 2019 students discuss the process of transforming into a character.
Previous Productions
" I have traveled so that my vertebrae fell apart, one by one, until I was a scattered bag of bricks. That was when my legs walked deeper and deeper into the dry, soft sand, heavy and inviting. I was swallowed by the deserts of it all. "
Women transform into beasts, peoples' hair mysteriously grows long overnight, and souls come back to reunite with something they have lost in death. Featuring an ensemble of actors, singers, musicians, and movers, this multidisciplinary epic aims to transport and reconnect.
EMILY was featured at the 2016 Milwaukee Fringe Festival.
Cloud of Gnats
" Little cat walked in the window, and Raymond snuck milk from the icebox. Here little kitty he said, have a lap and a nap. Mother didn’t know. Mother wouldn’t know. Maybe buy the milk with found change to feed kitty so Matka doesn’t know. "
A new performance project devised by Kathryn Cesarz and Don Russell. Performed April 29th and 30th, 2016.