PERFORMING RESUMé

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             range: mezzo soprano                                                  

             height:  5’2”                             clothes size: 14 P             email: lissy@lissygulick.com

             hair:  brown/silver               eyes: blue /green

 Theater, 1991 - 2011

A Christmas Carol                             Character Woman                 Actors’ Summit, Akron, OH

Is He Dead?                                          Mme. Bathilde                       Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland

The Receptionist                                 Beverly                                    Dobama Theatre, Cleveland

The Carpetbagger’s Children         Grace Anne                            Ensemble Theatre

Don’t Call Me Fat!                               Aunt Jane                               Cleveland Public Theatre

Shear Madness (Cleveland Company) Mrs. Shubert                Playhouse Square Productions

We Gotta Bingo! (Cleveland Company)  Helga Voekel             14^th St. Theater, Playhouse Square

A Christmas Carol                              Mrs. Fezziwig/Laundress   Great Lakes Theater Festival,

Dark of the Moon                               Mrs. Summey                         CSU Summer Stages

Fuddy Meers                                         Gertie                                      Dobama Theater, Cleveland

Death of a Salesman                          Linda Loman                         Magical Theater Company

Everyman                                              Kindred                                    CSU school of Theatre and Dance

Musical Theater & Opera, 1991 - 2011

Jerry Springer – the Opera!           Irene                                          Beck Center for the Arts

Wine, Women and Song                   soloist                                        Actors’ Summit

Unbeatable! A Musical Journey    Mom                                          Playhouse Square “Launch” Series

H.M.S. Pinafore                                   Cousin Hebe                            Cleveland Opera Company

H.M.S. Pinafore                                   Buttercup                                 Cleveland Opera on Tour

Sweeney Todd                                      Mrs. Lovett                               Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland

Fiddler on the Roof  (1996, 2003)    Yente / Fruma Sara                Carousel Dinner Theater, Akron, OH

Funny Girl                                             Mrs. Strakosh                           Carousel Dinner  Theater

Oklahoma!                                            Aunt Eller                                  Porthouse Theatre, Blossom Music Ctr

Bye Bye Birdie                                     Mrs. Mae Peterson                  Porthouse Theatre

Cabaret                                                     Fraulein Schneider                  Halle Theater, Cleveland

Man of La Mancha                             Housekeeper                             Halle Theater

The Music Man                                     Mrs. Shinn                                 Cain Park Summer Theatre, Cleveland

The Robber Bridegroom                  Salome                                        Cain Park Summer Theatre

Violet                                                         Old Lady/Hotel Singer            Cain Park Summer Theatre

Nunsense                                                 Mother Superior                       Beck Center for the Arts

Film

Antwone Fisher (2002)                    Mona                           Denzel Washington, Director / Sony/Fox

Welcome to Collinwood (2002)      “Mom “ #2                     Russo Brothers, Directors / Section 8

Residencies, Concerts, Lecture-Concerts

Hathaway Brown School Artist-in-Residence, 1993: Composer: A Requiem (mass for chorus and 5 soloists)

Young Audiences of Greater Cleveland, 1991-92 Writer/Performer: Voices from Early Ohio (folk lec/dem)

Western Reserve Historical Society, Writer/Performer:

1995: (with Bette Lou Higgins/ Produced by Eden Valley Enterprises): Ballads of the Inland Seas

1993: (with Bette Lou Higgins/ Produced by Eden Valley Enterprises): Canal Songs and Stories

1989 -93: Voices from Early Ohio

Cleveland School Of The Arts, 1987: From English Ballad To American Rock (Grades6/7)

Training

VOICE, OPERATIC COACHING:  Indiana University School of Music 1969-1971; special student of Elizabeth Mannion (teacher of Jessye Norman); Alfred Heller, D. Mus., Indiana University, 1966-76

ACTING, SPEECH, DANCE:                  American Music and Drama Academy (AMDA), NYC, 1965-1966

THEATER, MUSIC THEORY, COMPOSITION: Vassar College   Major: Theater   Minor: Music, 1962-65