Full given name: |
Marin Yvonne Ireland |
Hometown: |
Camarillo, CA |
Audition monologue: |
I used to do one from Timberlake Wertenbaker's Three Birds Alighting on a Field. Also Cressida. |
Special skills: |
Boxing, from a show I did — I still like to claim it as a skill. . . sign language, also fading from memory |
First Broadway show ever saw: |
Damn Yankees with Bebe Neuwirth and Victor Garber. I believe it was actually his last performance, they made a little speech at the curtain call. Totally thrilling. |
If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be? |
Glass Menagerie with Laurette Taylor. The Lark with Julie Harris. Cuckoo's Nest, as directed by the estimable Terry Kinney. Buried Child (with the estimable Terry Kinney, of course) |
Current show you have been recommending to friends: |
Garden of Earthly Delights. . . and I'm really excited about Next to Normal coming back |
Favorite showtune: |
"Tell Me on a Sunday" |
Most played song on your iPod: |
Grand Machine No. 12, "Electric President" |
One CD you couldn't live without: |
Too hard to pick just one! At the moment: Bright Eyes, "Cassadaga." |
Last book you read: |
"Music for Torching," A. M. Homes. So, so good. |
Must-see TV show: |
"30 Rock." "Top Chef." "Project Runway." |
Last good movie you saw: |
"Coraline" (but I'm WAY more excited about David Greenspan/Stephen Merritt's version. . .) |
Favorite board/card game: |
Apples to Apples |
Performer you would drop everything to go see: |
Eddie Izzard. Jayne Houdyshell. Mark Rylance. Reed Birney. |
Pop culture guilty pleasure: |
Beyoncé. I do love girl pop. |
First stage kiss: |
You Can't Take It With You. I was a junior in high school, he was the cool senior dude. The director knew I was really nervous, so he made us do it like a million times the first time we got to it. I thought I was going to fly apart, like on a cellular level. |
How you got your Equity card: |
Craig Wright's play Molly's Delicious, summer theatre at Mt. Holyoke College. Classic one-week stock. |
Worst onstage mishap: |
One night during Sabina at Primary Stages, I walked out and started the first speech of the play, a direct address monologue, and a woman in the back of the house screamed "Be quiet!!" at the top of her lungs. So I stopped talking. I waited a second and tried again, and this time it was even louder "Bee quiiiet!!!" I stood there in silence for what felt like a full minute. . . finally I started for the third time, and just continued over the person who had resumed screaming, until house management showed up. I discovered later that the person was trying to tell her companion to stop asking her for help with his hearing aid. Because, I can only assume, it was disrupting the play. Yeesh. |
Who have you played on "Law & Order"? Which edition? |
I have achieved the trifecta. "Criminal Intent": best one was the murder victim, pushed down an airshaft by mom, who had mad cow disease. Seriously. "SVU": multiple rape victim who offs herself in the bathtub. Mothership: the bad guy!!! I assisted a couple suicides. This episode had the best cast ever: Brad Dourif, Elizabeth Marvel, Susan Blackwell, Michael McKean... amazing. |
Worst costume ever: |
Children's theatre. Girl Scout outfit plus giant brown permy geri-curl-y wig. I was playing Goldilocks. Completely inexplicable. |
Cats or dogs? |
Both. But at present, a kitten. |
Who would play you in the movie? |
Since Meryl's probably busy, Tilda Swinton |
Worst job you ever had: |
Working in a haunted house in college. I was literally on the rack, screaming, for hours at a time. After one group went through one night, a kid who looked about 10 years old hung back and said to me, "Wow, you really needed a job, huh?" |
TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed: |
Kissing my then-boyfriend all day for a Verizon commercial. |
Leading lady role you've been dying to play |
Desdemona. Marie Antoinette in this amazing play by David Adjmi. |