CURRENT RESIDENCE: Oak Park, Illinois
YEAR JOINED ENSEMBLE: 2013
POSITION: Actor
AMERICAN BLUES THEATER CREDITS
The Last Wide Open
It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago! (12 years) – Jeff Award nomination for Ensemble
The Spitfire Grill – Jeff Award nomination for Supporting Role – Musical
Little Shop of Horrors – Jeff Award nomination for Musical-midsize
Hank Williams: Lost Highway – Jeff Award nomination for Musical-midsize
The Ripped Festival
The Commons
@Home
Rubber Banned Book Club
The Garage series
ABOUT DARA
She is a proud ensemble member of American Blues Theater and a member of Actors’ Equity Association. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has performed extensively with American Blues and numerous regional theaters, as well as off-Broadway in Old Jews Telling Jokes, and in its Chicago engagement at the Royal George Theatre.
Select favorite roles outside of Blues include Hero (Asolo Repertory Theatre and Marriott Theatre, Jeff Award nomination), Sunset Boulevard and Fiddler on the Roof (Drury Lane), The Secret of My Success (Paramount Theatre), The Addams Family (Mercury Theater), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Theatre at the Center), and productions of October Sky, Elf, South Pacific, Sister Act, and City of Angels at the Marriott Theatre.
FUN FACT
Dara and Michael have a son together named Ezra, who does not like seeing theater or watching them sing or play music. He often protests that he is “not meant for the stage,” but Dara refuses to believe it and is often found forcing him into musical theater summer camps and piano lessons.