Barbara Geary has had a varied performance career, careening through Mud Shows, mask performance, indie films and Shakespeare.

A graduate of Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre, class of ’79, she has performed with The Victims of Circus Dance, The Dell’Arte Company and Imago-Theatre Mask Ensemble. Her directing credits include the acclaimed contemporary commedias Love Potion # Mine and 3 Dottores 3, as well as an extended, sold out run of Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca, NY where she was also Artistic Associate. Barbara has played the Devil in The Soldier’s Tale with Ensemble X, made her mark as Anne Bonney at the Pirate Festival in the Florida Keys and was a founding member of Mud Rumpus. In 2000 she developed the graduate course, Physical Expression For Animators at the Rochester Institute of Technology and has brought that work to animators around the country. With the Dell’Arte Company she most recently created and performed the roles of Artemisia Gentileschi in Artemisia, The Woman In Green in Big Fat liar/Peer Gynt, Sylvia in GOLDEN STATE and Madame Pernelle in their adaptation of TARTUFFE. Locally she has been seen as Sunny Jacobs in THE EXONERATED with Deus X Machina, as a super in the Santa Fe Opera’s TIMID TWOSOME, and as Tiresias in ANTIGONE at the Vortex. Currently she is directing THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS for Santa Fe New Music.

Barbara also has extensive experience as a mask maker and visual artist, exhibiting her ceramic sculpture around the country.

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