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Ms. Blem has been involved with touring projects,
developing plays, and hands on reworking of original material both as an
actress and a director since 1980. Her first project was as an Artist in
Residence in the Seattle Schools System where she helped rework and direct
a play and poetry about the environment that two sixth grade classes had
written. Ms. Blem toured with Family Album, a play dealing with issues
that children face every day....i.e. divorcing parents, combining two
families into one, and cultural differences, etc.....as an actress
throughout the Portland area for three years.. She directed Secrets
for Kaiser Permanente, a play that reached teenagers on an emotional
level about AIDS, for the first two years of its touring, as well as their
production of Mr. Body Wise. She helped edit a three person version
of Quilters (two actresses and an accompanist) in which she played
multiple roles, performing often in Oregon and Washington.
As a director Ms. Blem has been involved in numerous
readings of drafts of original scripts for selected listeners as well as
public gatherings. She also worked with Don Horn at Triangle Productions
on two of his original scripts that had full productions, Tell Momma
Goodbye and Don't
Know the Color of Rainbows, Actually, helping to develop and hone the
dramatic through going line of action of the plays and the through going
line of the characters' spines.
Ms. Blem has also been involved in many readings of drafts
of original works as an actress. She has performed in several original
productions. One was Four Square
by Manuel Zarate, in which her input and ideas were
incorporated through out the process over many months. Another was
After the Light Goes, a collaborative effort with Rebecca Daniels as
dramaturge and Nancy Klementowski as playwright, that began as Ms. Blem's
idea for a touring one woman show about Georgia O'Keeffe, and ended up as
a full 7 person play performed at A.R.T. with Allen Nause directing.
The creative process took three years of research, discussion,
exploration, readings, rehearsing, etc. and has been one of the most
rewarding experiences Ms. Blem has ever had.
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