Vinie ("vine-ee") Burrows...began her career as a child actress on Broadway with Helen Hayes, in a production directed by Joshua Logan.Vinie most recently appeared in a Broadway show (Having Our Say) in 1997, in productions at the award-winning Berkeley Rep (California) and Alley Theatre (Texas). In between, her career has encompassed roles ranging from Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, and other Shakespearean roles to a judge on Days of Our Lives. Vinie has won an impressive array of awards over the years. This year she graduated summa cum laude with a Masters Degree in Performance Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, along the way winning the Performance Studies Departmental Award (for academic year 2000). This year Vinie won the Eugene McDermott Award of the Council for the arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Previous winners include I.M.Pei, the architect, and Henry Moore, the sculptor.) |
Credits: Vinie has been featured in over 5,000 performances -- on and off-Broadway, on television, and in films, as well as on the stages of theatre groups, universities, and other organizations around the world. Résumé: Some background reading for casting directors. | "...a magnificient performer" New York Times "an actress of superb virtuosity" Associated Press praise for Africa Fire! "The audience was mesmerized." New School for Social Research praise for Africa Fire! "superbly executed with universal appeal to both students and teachers" New Orleans Public Schools
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| To supplement her work as an actress, Vinie developed an impressive repertoire of one-woman shows, including Africa Fire!, a collection of traditional African folk tales. Vinie collected these stories on her many trips to the continent, where she also learned the traditional art of narrative storytelling.
Like the critics, audiences of all ages and nationalities respond with wild enthusiasm to these performances. | Read complete reviews and personal testimonials to this extraordinary actress, who uniquely melds passion, intelligence, and life-affirming power in every performance.
Casting directors: please use e-mail or the fax number (below). |
| To book any performance, workshop, or lecture, please call, or use the fax number listed below, or send mail to the New York City address: |
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