BriAnne Sudia, former Plainsboro resident, portrays Annie Sullivan in “The Miracle Worker” at Actors’ Net in Morrisville, Pennsylvania for the second time. She played the part in 2001 when she was only 14.##M:[more]##
Besides performing in close to 10 shows at Actors’ Net, she has also performed at Brook Arts Center and Kelsey Theater. Sudia has also stage managed, choreographed, and created special effects. She has studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
Sudia, who was homeschooled, received her associate degree from Camden County College last spring. Sudia recently attended Juilliard School’s Interpreting for the Theater program.
She has been performing with the Amaryllis Theater Company in Philadelphia, the city’s first fully-accessible professional theater company featuring deaf and hearing actors. She understudies and acts with both deaf and hearing actors and serves on the theater group’s interpreting team. She recently performed in the recent Walnut Street Theater production of “Beauty and the Beast” as the understudy for the role of the Wardrobe. Last fall she worked as a voice interpreter for a deaf actor in “Perfection Unspeakable” at the Adrienne Theater.
Sudia and her boyfriend, R. Liam Jennings, a deaf actor, artist, and interpreter, formed a new company, Show of Hands (www.showofhands.net). They tout themselves as a theatrical interpreting agency that can provide theaters with interpreter placement, lighting and seating requirements, deaf patrons and audience development.
Her parents, Cindy and William Sudia, opened the Neighborhood Arts Center in Pemberton a few years ago. They moved from Plainsboro to Tabernacle close to two years ago. The center, created from an old firehouse, houses a theater, art studios, and classrooms. Visit www.thenac.org.
The Miracle Worker, Actors’ NET, 635 North Delmorr Avenue, Morrisville, 215-295-3694. www.actorsnetbucks.org. $13 to $15. To Sunday, January 29.
