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Laura

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About Me

Theatre artist, costume and clothing "guru", writer and music promoter. Resident Dramaturg and Company Member of Run of the Mill Theatre in Baltimore. Professional theatrical experience: playwriting, dramaturgy, costume design, directing and marketing. Consignment manager at DryTear: 1728 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. Also, affiliated with Happy Room Records, Pablo's Reggae Sweatshop and the bands Legend of the Bat, Bill C. and the Bees, DragonSong, Interrogation, HR and the Dub Agents, the Players Band, Medic and Experiment Haywire.
"I'm breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions," Tyler whispered, "because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit..."
Barking and barking.
Barking and barking.
"We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us."

My Interests

Current projects:

ALMOST SOLD OUT!...and see Charles acting on stage!

MACBETH by Shakespeare at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.

Directed by Ian Gallanar, Costume Design by Laura Ridgeway. November 9 - December 2, 2007. Performs at the Howard County Center for the Arts: 8510 High Ridge Road, Ellicott City, MD 21043. www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com.

GOYA (en la Quinta del Sordo). Written and directed by Willy Conley, Costume Design by Laura Ridgeway. November 8-18, 2007 at Gallaudet University in the Gilbert. C. Eastman Studio Theatre. For more info, visit http://theatrearts.gallaudet.edu/x4855.xml

Recent Productions:

Check out my latest review: http://www.citypaper.com/story.asp?id=14673 BLOODWEDDING by Federico Garcia Lorca at Run of the Mill Theater.

Baltimore Theatre Project Fri-Sun, November 11th - 21st. Part of the Baltimore Free Fall Festival. Directed by David Mitchell. Costume Design by Laura Ridgeway. www.runofthemilltheater.org

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Loyola College, directed by Arion Alston, Costume Design by Laura Ridgeway. October 26 - November 4th, Thursday - Saturday 8p, Sunday matinee, with a special MIDNIGHT SHOW on Friday, November 2nd! McManus Theater, 4501 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21210. For more info or tickets, call (410)617-5024.

TURN YOUR HEAD AND KAFKA by Laura Ridgeway June 28 - July 8, 2006 Produced by Run of the Mill Theater, Sponsored by Loyola College, Baltimore, MD

Music:

Book DC's greatest rock band:

"Shit Son" Classic Reggae and Soul spun by Pablo Fiasco at Asylum on Monday Nights! 2417 18th St., NW, Washington, D.C. www.asylumdc.com. "Mamboclot" reggae/soul/funk with DJ Pablo Fiasco and friends at Chief Ike's Mambo Room on Tuesday Nights! 1725 Columbia Rd, NW, Washington, D.C. Voted one of the "world's best bars..." www.chiefikes.com.

Experiment Haywire

DragonSong: HR, The Players Band, Red This Ever, Medic, Experiment Haywire, Dharmata 101, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Rocket from the Crypt, Dead Kennedys, Sonic Youth, Bloc Party, Beastie Boys, Charles Mingus, A Tribe Called Quest, Sex Pistols, Pixies, Misfits, Bottle Babies, Rodan, The Smiths, Kyuss, Dead Can Dance, De La Soul, Ministry, White Stripes, Parliament, NIN, Postal Service, Bauhaus, Hot Hot Heat, David Bowie, Death From Above 1979, Da Lench Mobb, Fugazi, Jurassic Five, Miles Davis, Rage Against the Machine, Wu Tang Clan, Depeche Mode, Bad Brains, Franz Ferdinand, Digable Planets, Dave Brubeck, Ramones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Eric Dolphy, Bjork, T. Rex, Morphine, Theivery Corporation, Interpol, Gorillaz, Jesus Lizard, The Doors, Strokes, Nas, Kidneythieves, Beck, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Helmet, Missy Elliot, AC/DC, Janes Addiction, Agent Orange, Dinosaur Jr, Dead Milkmen, Black Flag, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Pharoah Monch, Soul Coughing, Velvet Underground, Minor Threat, The Cure, Static-X, Nick Cave, Led Zeppelin, Arctic Monkeys, Jimi Hendrix, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Dust Brothers, Concrete Blonde, Black Sabbath, FatBoy Slim, Clash, Black Eyed Peas, She Wants Revenge, Johnny Cash, Stray Cats, Mudhoney, Outkast, Portishead, The Specials, Rolling Stones, Daisy Chainsaw, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billie Holiday, Muse, Prince, Fishbone, Frank Zappa, Timbaland & Magoo, Concrete Blonde, Ima Robot, Placebo, Wolfmother, Gorillaz, Radiohead, Sly & the Family Stone, Mars Volta, Danger Mouse, Bob Marley, Gas Huffer, Outkast, Sublime, Helmet, the Pietasters, John Coltrane, ubangi, Motorhead

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, 28 Days Later, Happy Gilmore, Queen of the Damned, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Money Pit, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Matrix, Sean of the Dead, Life Aquatic, Rear Window, The Funeral, American History X, Superfly, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Taxi Driver, Nightmare Before Christmas, My Own Private Idaho, Man Bites Dog, Parenthood, Zoolander, The Fifth Element, Pump Up the Volume, Gimme Shelter, Break in Two Electric Boogaloo, Female Trouble, Breakfast Club, Four Rooms, Snatch, Reservoir Dogs, Dazed and Confused, Fargo, Easy Rider, Boogie Nights, Meet the Parents, Glengarry GlenRoss, Romeo+Juliet, Heathers, Pulp Fiction, Motorcycle Diaries, A Scanner Darkly, Brazil, Stand By Me, The Wall, Gia, Black Hawk Down, The Departed, Suburbia, Immortal Beloved

Books:

Authors: Chuck Palahniuk, Sam Shepard, Kurt Vonnegut, Milan Kundera, Harold Pinter, Don DeLillo, Franz Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Stoppard, Lillian Hellman, Bertold Brecht, Amy Hempel, Denis Johnson, Djuna Barnes, David Rabe, J.D. Salinger, William S. Burroughs, Anton Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, David Mamet, Toni Morrison, Mezz Mezzrow, Erica Jong, Tenessee Williams, Heiner Muller, Vaclav Havel, Kate Chopin, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Athol Fugard, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Isaac Babel, Joyce Johnson, David Mamet, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe

Heroes:

Johnny Cash, Vaclav Havel, Milena Jesenska

My Blog

Topdog/Underdog at Morgan State

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose name...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:11:00 PST

old friends

If myspace is good for nothing else, it has helped me get back in touch w/ lots of old friends. Back in touch with:NancyNicholleLindaDavidStill looking for:Rebekah and JanettTamaraSharonGregBrent & Li...
Posted by Laura on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:12:00 PST

Bertold Brecht's BAAL at Loyola

I costume designed BAAL by Bertolt Brecht, Directed by Dr. James Bunzli.Feb. 16-18, 23-25. Loyola College. McManus Theater on the campus of Loyola College, Baltimore www.loyola.edu/drama...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:08:00 PST

pics of STREETCAR (my costume design)

Check out the photos I took of STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE at Gallaudet University. If you haven't seen it yet, this weekend is your last chance!.. I loved costume designing this show, and I hope you en...
Posted by Laura on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:15:00 PST

Tonight is opening night .1 of 4

Hello Blog: one of the many shows I've been working on is opening tonight, with many more long hours and opening nights to follow soon. So if I haven't been in touch w/ my friends as much lately, know...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:01:00 PST

My trip to Charleston, SC

So I'm in Charleston, SC visiting my best friend Jamie. So far my fav haunts are Sticky Fingers, Vickery's, King Street Grille, Cumberland's (home of METAL MONDAY) and of course Folly Beach. Here's so...
Posted by Laura on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:45:00 PST

VARIATIONS ON FEAR, presented by Run of the Mill Theater

FEAR AND LOATHING IN BALTIMORE: 2ND ANNUAL VARIATIONS PROJECT 10 Plays. 6 Actors. 5 Directors. 1 Stage. What do you fear? Run of the Mill Theater is pleased to present the second annual Variations pro...
Posted by Laura on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:04:00 PST

The critics love my play!

"Ridgeways three-act Kafka is a time-jumping, imaginative exploration of the intellectually and sensually charged relationship between the titular German-speaking Jewish writer and the Catholic Milena...
Posted by Laura on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:56:00 PST

My show opens this Friday! And we're having a party to celebrate

So I wrote a play and a theater in Baltimore is producing it! It's awesome & you should come. We open this Friday, and since we're the first show in the 25th annual Baltimore Playwrights Festival, we'...
Posted by Laura on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:24:00 PST

The Mesmers Play Capital Gay Pride This Sunday

The Mesmers biggest show of the year occurs this month. Out of over 4,000 applicants the Mesmers have been chosen as the OPENING ACT for the 2006 DC Gay Pride Festival. More than 200,000 people are ex...
Posted by Laura on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:36:00 PST