stats and vitals:
-Graduate of Howard University's Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, BFA Musical Theatre (yes, I will bring it up)
-Southern Idaho born and raised (special skills include downhill skiing, shooting a Diet Coke can through the "o", peeling a potato faster than anyone you've ever seen)
-Libra sun, Sag moon, Scorpio rising
-Favorite Shakespeare: Hamlet
-Favorite Sondheim: Company
-Recently closed: The Kennedy Center's spring tour of Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
-Currently working on: DC I Love You: First Dates with the Folger Theatre, directed by Nadia Guevara (tickets here)
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bio:
A graduate of Howard University's BFA Musical Theatre program, Savina has studied musical theatre, restoration comedy, Shakespeare, and devising techniques in Idaho, New York, DC, and London.
Performance credits include for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf (Lady in Orange), Look Both Ways (Francie, et al/Dance Capt.), one drop cool (May), Cabaret (Rosie/Rudy), Head Over Heels (Ens./Pythio u/s), Twelfth Night (Antonio/Fabian), The Addams Family (Ens./Dance Capt.), Pippin (Leading Player), The Revolutionists (Marianne Angelle), Rapture Blister Burn (Avery Willard), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Robin Starveling), ¡Luchadora! (Lupita Guerrero/Mascara Rosa II), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Lucy Barker).
Savina was a featured playwright in Theater Alliance's A Protest in Eight, a series of eight newly commissioned plays directed by artistic director Raymond O. Caldwell. In October 2022, they co-directed the Idaho regional premiere of Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu with longtime collaborator and best friend in the whole wide world, Roney Jones.
Offstage Savina is a teaching artist, and has worked with St. Thomas Playhouse, Sage School, The Spot, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Wood River Community YMCA, Howard University, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, and Arena Stage directing, choreographing, and teaching dance and acting to K-12 and undergraduate students.
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pics or it didn't happen:
"Johanna" and "Searching"
dance reel
photos (click to enlarge)
reviews:
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, ArtCentric
"Deserving of special mention is the amazing “no more love poems #1” performed by Savina Barini as Lady in Orange, displaying tremendous acting and dancing chops."
-Maryland Theatre Guide
one drop cool, Moxie Arts NY and the WP Theatre
"Humorously personable, firecracker performances by Savina Barini (May) [...] wraps the central conundrum in a cozy veneer of poppy approachability that grounds the wit of the writing to reality with their impressively bold and charismatic instincts."
-Broadway DNA
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks, The Kennedy Center and Theater Alliance
"It is difficult to single out any one actor as they are all seemingly at the top of their game in this one. [...] The actors give this show the kind of force and depth that make a production memorable for years to come."
-Maryland Theatre Guide
"A series of set pieces [...] all of them earnestly and heartfully played by a six-person cast that should be soon making their way to their next block—Broadway. Top grades to this ensemble cast."
-DC Metro Theatre Arts
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track me down:
savinabarini (at) gmail (dot) com
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