European Premiere

BLACK PEARL SINGS!

by Frank Higgins
10 Sept – 21 Oct 2012
 
 
Adrienne Ferguson

Adrienne Ferguson

Susannah Mullally

Adrienne grew up on the west coast of Canada. She graduated from the acting ensemble at York University, Toronto, where she received an Award of Excellence in Creative Work.

Adrienne has worked as an actor, and as a teacher of acting, in Toronto, Vancouver, Singapore, Japan and, now, Vienna. She holds a second degree in Theatre in Education, studied clowning in Paris, and is a workshop leader for the International School Theatre Association, a job which has, so far, taken her to Lisbon, Istanbul, Düsseldorf, Rome and Copenhagen.

Recent directing credits include Closer by Patrick Marber, Ensemble Theater, Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell, Kunsthaus, Wien, and Top Girls by Carol Churchill at Vienna’s English Theatre, for the V.E.T.’s Youth Ensemble.

Recent acting credits include Victoria in A Moment on the Lips, Ensemble Theatre, VTP, The Vagina Monologues, Kosmos Theater,VTP, Drama Queens and a King, Theater Drachengasse, VTP, and Anne in How the Other Half Loves with Arts4Charity at the Wiener Kammeroper. Acting highlights at the International Theatre, Vienna include: the Angel Americana in Angels in America, Sylvia, the dog, in Sylvia, and Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion.

Adrienne recently played a lead role in the short feature Sierra Zulu, for monochrom and Golden Girl Productions, and will appear this fall in the feature film The Boundary Man starring Klaus Maria Brandauer. She has also done a variety of commercial work for Austrian television.

Adrienne currently teaches acting at the 1st Film Academy, Vienna, and is proud to be Artistic Director at Showtime, Vienna’s English Theatre’s Youth School of Performing Arts.

She is thrilled to share her acting debut at Vienna’s English Theatre with such a talented colleague in such a wonderful play!