SARA COPELAND

Height: 5’5” Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue

THEATRE______The Good Doctor Julia/Irena/Nina/Girl (Josh Anderson) Garbot (original) Garbot Stage 773 One Act Festival (Colin Jackson) The Comedy of Errors Emilia Northern University (David Frank) Antigone Chorus NIU (Patricia Skarbinski) Look Homeward, Angel Mdm. Elizabeth/Mrs. Clatt NIU (Patricia Skarbinski) The Cherry Orchard (adaptation) Varya Moscow Art Theatre School (M. Milkis) Laundry and Bourbon Elizabeth Caulder NIU (Kendra Holton) A Bright Room Called Day Rosa Malek NIU (Alexander Gelman) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Chorus NIU (Ryan Massie)

FILM ______Technical Difficulties (NIU webseries) Jasmine NIU (Anthony Perrella Jr.) Venture Megan NIU (Clay Janicke) Marine Grill (independent) Sherry Funny Ugly Productions (Dan Fox)

TRAINING/INTERNSHIPS______Northern Illinois University, BFA in Acting (a four-year Meisner-based Professional Training Program that integrates Voice and Speech, Movement, and Period Style Work)

Acting: Meisner Kathryn Gately & Rick Poole Shakespeare/Verse Drama Alexander Gelman Movement: Williamson, Michael Chekhov Patricia Skarbinski Voice/Speech: Fitzmaurice, Dialects, IPA Stanton Davis Acting on Camera Anthony Perrella Jr. Business of Theatre/Audition Preparation Kay Martinovich Directing Patricia Ridge

The Moscow Art Theatre School: Movement: Droznin Vladimir Sazhin Acting: Stansislavski Mihail Labanov & Mihail Milkis Fencing Andrey Uraev & Grigory Levakov Stage Combat Vyacheslav Rybakov Theatre History/Dramaturgy Anatoly Smeliansky

Acting Studio : On Camera II/III Janelle Snow

Organic Theater Company: 2014 Summer Internship, Chicago, Illinois Alexander Gelman

SPECIAL SKILLS______Dialects (Standard American, RP, Deep South, Russian); IPA Proficient; backbend from standing, shoulder stand, Stage Combat; Fencing; National Pastime Theater (Chicago) strike assistant