Sara Gmitter has stage
managed 29 productions in her 10 adventurous years working with Lookingglass
including the Lookingglass Alice tour to Princeton, New York and Philadelphia.
Her play (A Long Fatal Love Chase- an adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel)
was produced last summer by the Powerhouse Theatre Company in New York. Her
short story "Harold" has been heard on WBEZ's Stories on Stage and
she is currently working on a novel about a circus girl turned assassin. She
sometimes teaches stage management at Northwestern University and has also
taught beginning Circus Arts for the Lookingglass Youth Ensemble. She rounds
out her complete immersion in all things Lookingglass by taking classes at the
Actors Gymnasium where she has achieved the lofty status of advanced beginner.
hometown: Chesapeake, VA
college: College of William & Mary
major: B.A. in theatre
favorite vacation destination: Edinburgh
favorite book: Villette by Charlotte Bronte
favorite band while in high school: R.E.M (sorry Heidi)
favorite text Lookingglass has adapted: Baron in the Trees
favorite Lookingglass memory: Favorite is too hard so I'll tell one of my funniest memories instead. We were in rehearsal for Her Name was Danger and Larry and Andy were playing these two highly comical undercover detectives. Ostensibly to prepare for a scene in which Larry played a mime (but really I think because he thought it would be funny) Catlin (the director and author) had them play charades with each other. Hilarity ensued. Culminating in Larry trying to charade VW Bug to Andy. Larry tried to cheat by using 2 fingers to make a V and then 3 fingers to make W but Andy kept thinking he was using the charade symbols for 2 words and 3 words or 2nd word, 3rd word. So it went on and on with them completely misunderstanding each other and Larry was getting so frustrated and Andy was so calmly saying NOT what Larry wanted and Catlin, Mele and I were just helpless with laughter. I'm laughing again right now just thinking about it. They never got it, by the way.
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