ACTING RESUME
Valerie Adams Rigsbee
 



Height: 5'7”
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue-Green
Weight: 130
Vocal: Soprano
Email: vrigsbee@gmail.com
Current Location: Minneapolis


THEATRE EXPERIENCE

Oedipus Rex (Messenger)
Tyrus Emory dir.
Bottom Line Theatre

Master Builder (Kaja)
Leonard Pronko dir.
Pomona College

Into the Woods (Baker's Wife)
Diosdado Pascual dir.
Pomona College

Proof (Claire)
Jacob Stoebel dir.
Bottom Line Theatre

Spoonriver Anthology
Tom Leabhart dir.
Pomona College

Heartbreak House (Lady Utterword)
Leonard Pronko dir.
Pomona College

Mother Courage
Tom Leabhart dir.
Pomona College

Shakuntala
Betty Bernhard dir.
Pomona College
 
SPECIAL SKILLS

Recognized Actor/Combatant by
the Society of American Fight
Directors (2006)

Singer (Soprano): Solo Lessons, Acappella, Choirs

Ballroom Dance:
Social (Bronze Medal with Honors)
Latin (Bronze Medal)
Intl. Standard, English Folk

Proficient in French

Dialects:
Cockney, Standard British,
American Southern, Irish,
Scottish, German
 

HONORS/AWARDS

Virginia Princehouse Allen
Departmental Award (2007) Underclass Acting Award (2005)

Examiner's Award for Excellence
in Stage Combat (2006)

Best Thespian Award (2003) and Super Thespian Award (2002)

Musical Director's Award (2003)
 
TRAINING

BA Degree in Theatre Performance
from Scripps College
(through Pomona College)

London Dramatic Academy
(Spring 2006)

Mounds Park Academy
(High School Diploma)

Acting - Alan Blumenfeld, Armin
Shimerman, Jan Cole, Hilary
Wood, Michael Winter, Richard
Digby Day, Caryll Ziegler,
Diosdado Pascual, Mona
Poehling, Barb Bradley

Voice/Speech - Speaking: Tess
Dignan, Adrienne Thomas, and
Jan Cole; Singing: Jennifer Goltz

Dialects - Tim Charrington &
Caryll Ziegler

Stage Combat - Richard Ryan &
Marlon Bulger

Movement/Physical Theatre -
Alison Cologna (LeCoq), Sue
Goodman (Laban), Laurie
Cameron (Modern Dance), Angela
Hardcastle (Historical Dance),
Chris Witt (Ballroom Dance)

Internships - Guthrie Theater,
Park Square Theatre, Lakeshore
Players, Ars Musica Summer Institute