PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Maria Dizzia
By Ernio Hernandez
24 Nov 2009
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| Maria Dizzia |
| Full given name: | Maria Teresa Dizzia |
| Hometown: | Cranford, NJ |
| Zodiac sign: | Capricorn |
| Audition monologue: | Emma from Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls |
| First Broadway show ever saw: | Cats |
| If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? | Uta Hagen in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Current show you have been recommending to friends: | Circle Mirror Transformation |
| Favorite show tune: | Every song from Cabaret |
| MAC or PC? | Mac, but I'm writing this on my mom's PC. |
| Most played song on your iPod: | "Sophisticated Boom Boom" by The Shangri-Las and "There is No Sun" by Jay Reatard |
| Web obsession: | tinyartdirector.blogspot.com (start at the bottom and work your way back to the most recent post) and tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogspot.com (I want to be her when I grow up.) |
| Last book you read: | "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin |
| Must-see TV show: | "30 Rock" |
| Last good movie you saw: | "Amarcord" on DVD |
| Favorite card game: | Spit |
| Performer you would drop everything to go see: | Peggy Shaw |
| Pop culture guilty pleasure: | Bejeweled Blitz 2 |
| How you got your Equity card: | My Three Angels and I Hate Hamlet at Summer Theater Mount Holyoke |
| Worst onstage mishap: | In Two Gentlemen of Verona at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, I started a quick-change too early. I heard Launce, Aaron Cabell, reciting a random sonnet onstage, got back in my nightgown and ran on with the back of it attached to my wig. And then I had a coughing fit. |
| Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition? | I played the girlfriend of a suspect on "Law & Order: CI." And a meth-addicted prostitute on "Law & Order" regular. |
| Worst costume ever: | Green and white muumuu as Princess Ozma |
| Favorite junk food: | Reeses Peanut Butter Cups |
| Who would play you in the movie? | Zoe Lister-Jones |
| Worst job you ever had: | Selling lingerie at Bloomingdale's. During a sale a woman leaned towards me and said, "I'd hate to see you under real pressure." |
| TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed: | Getting my neck and shoulders cast in latex so I could be my own headless body on "Fringe." |
| Would Eurydice and Mrs. Daldry, your character in In the Next Room, get along: | I don't know if they would get along, but they both love reading the Greeks. |



