Doreen Taylor-Claxton - Lady Macbeth

Doreen Taylor-Claxton is one of those fluid performers, working as a soloist, actor, chamber musician and music director, moving easily from one genre to the next.  This is her second summer with Bear & Co. having performed in The Tempest (Alonzo), last year.  She is thrilled to sink her teeth into the juicy role of Lady MacBeth.  Other credits include: for Easy Street Productions; Up to Low (Poor Bridget),  The Ottawa Stilt Union; Searching for Snails (Marvin the Flightless Bird), Odyssey Theatre; Arms and the Man (Catherine Petkoff), Deluxe Hot Sauce; SKIN (ensemble), Medea (Creon), NAC Pops Orchestra; Guys and Dolls (Agatha), The St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival; A Grand Night for Singing (Lynn), Jesus my Boy (musician), The Taming of the Shrew (Widow), Measure for Measure (Francesca), Upper Canada Playhouse; Seaway Story (Sue), Opera Lyra Ottawa Young Artists; Magic Flute (Pamina).  She is a founding member of Deluxe Hot Sauce, a theatre collective committed to voicing the complexity of women’s lives and choices.  Deluxe Hot Sauce has created a “musically-infused, movement-rich” aesthetic that integrates various artistic disciplines and modes of story telling.  Its productions of Medea (2007) and SKIN (2013) were both nominated for Rideau Awards.  As part of the collective, she collaboratively created SKIN, for Undercurrents Fesitval Theatre 2013 and two other pieces of site specific theatre: First Dusk Last Light and Back in the Box for subDevision in 2012 and 2013.

Doreen Taylor-Claxton

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