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Mary Catherine Garrison has appeared on Broadway as Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme in Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins at the Roundabout Theatre’s Studio 54, as Izzy in the Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning Rabbit Hole, and in Top Girls and The Man Who Came to Dinner with Nathan Lane. She has appeared Off Broadway in The Foreigner, The Last of the Thorntons, and Crimes of the Heart. In an interview about her training at the University of Evansville, an enthusiastic Garrison said, “My experience at Evansville provided me with ample opportunities to explore various types of theatre. We did Chekov, Shakespeare, musical theatre, and world premieres of contemporary plays. The best part was that the approach to the work was always based on the real emotion of a character. It was natural. It was human.” When asked what she has carried with her into the professional world, she replied, “I try to remember what I was taught about trusting my natural instincts. We were always encouraged to explore the characters as real people and given the permission to trust and hone our instincts as actors.” Garrison also commented, “Some of my best friends today were roommates I had at Evansville. We just threw a surprise wedding shower for one of them! I think we are friends for life.” She concluded with, “The faculty really care about you as a person. They continue to stay in touch with you on a regular basis. Once you are part of the UE Theatre family, you never really leave. It is always with you.” |
Mary Catherine Garrison