L-R: Margaretta Campagna and Annie Paladino joined Akropolis Performance Lab as Artistic Associates in May.
We are delighted to welcome Margaretta Campagna and Annie Paladino as Akropolis Performance Lab’s new Artistic Associates! As Artistic Associates they will not only participate in APL’s artistic projects and ongoing training but also contribute to charting the ensemble’s direction both artistically and strategically.
Margaretta‘s affiliation with APL began in fall 2005, when she was cast in Seneca’s Oedipus (2006). She played Tiresias, for which she earned well-deserved critical praise, and she also provided much of the production’s musical soundscape on her cello. When the fretboard on her cello broke just one hour before curtain, Margaretta went to extraordinary lengths to secure a replacement — including cheering on (through tears of panic) another Oedipus actress, Liz Erber, as she scaled the side of a building to enter the window of a friend’s locked apartment (with permission, of course) and retrieve a suitable instrument! Since then, Margaretta has participated in every APL production and activity, most recently appearing as Sonya in Uncle Vanya (2014).
Annie, a recent transplant from San Francisco, began training with APL in our summer 2013 Performer’s Lab. We later learned that at Wesleyan University she had studied with Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento — one of the Lavys’ former NWPL colleagues. Annie came on board to assistant direct Uncle Vanya (2014) in the fall. Above and beyond her AD duty, she participated fully in the music rehearsal process throughout and was such a proficient ensemble member that we once “rewarded” her with 11th-hour call to be on-deck to perform due to actor illness (although she was not, ultimately, subjected to that trial-by-fire)! You’ll also see Annie credited with a majority of the extraordinary Vanya photography.
For more information about our new company members and their wealth of artistic experience, see our Collaborators & Artistic Associates page .
Please join us in congratulating Margaretta and Annie. We anticipate great things from their collaboration!
