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 wendy gough soroka began creating masks in 1995 as a student at the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, California. She has taught a Mask Improv and Performance class at Wayne State University in Detroit in 1998. Her masks have gone to five continents and appeared in many productions, most recently in Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis' Soothsayin': a Stylin' Julius Caesar & A Midsummer Night's Dream: In the Wink of an Eye, Write Act Repertory's The Trial, Cymbeline, & A Midsummer Night's Dream, Berkeley Repertory Theatre's Menocchio, (Lillian Groag), ICAP's The Rope, the Classical Theatre Lab’s The Iliad and For the Love of a Nightingale, Theatre of the Arts’ Playing with the Gods, Antaeus' The Ugly Duckling & The Proof of the Promise, Zapata High School's productions of Medea and Blood Wedding, the Knightsbridges’ The Mandragola, as well as many productions of A Servant of Two Masters. She has created nearly one hundred different masks, ranging from Commedia Dell’Arte and classical Greek theatre masks, to silent character masks, and flights of fancy such as gargoyles. She is the principal Mask Designer at Arlecchina’s Masks. Ms. Soroka holds an MFA in Acting from Wayne State University in Detroit and a BFA in Theatre from the University of California at Santa Barbara. In addition to Maskmaking, she also pursues an acting career in Los Angeles. |
