Wanda's Picks Radio Show: Cast from Danai Gurira's The Convert

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We close with an interview with Elizabeth Carter (Mai Tamba) & Katherine Renee Turner*(Jekesai/Ester) in the Bay Area Premiere of Danai Gurira's The Convert at Marin Theatre Company, February 19 – March 15, 2015.Elizabeth Carter has appeared at MTC in Beggar’s Holiday, The Crucible and The Art of Dining. She was most recently seen as The Eternal Feminine in Wittenberg at the Aurora Theatre Company. Carter has performed with numerous Bay Area theaters. Her favorite roles include Rose in Fences, the Bawd in Pericles, Millie in Trouble in Mind, Effie in Dreamgirls, Mistress Ford in Merry Wives of Winsor and Agnes in Agnes of God. Carter teaches Shakespeare performance at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts and has directed for the Cal Shakes Theater Summer Conservatory for nearly 20 years. She resides in Oakland and can be heard in the historic Peralta House audio exhibit.Katherine Renee Turner*(Jekesai/Ester) has appeared at MTC in Fetch Clay, Make Man. A Washington D.C.-based actor, she has appeared in that region in*Fetch Clay, Make Man*at Round House Theatre;*The Threepenny Opera*at Signature Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream,*Much Ado About Nothing*and*The Tempest*at Shakespeare Theatre Company;*The Laramie Project*at Ford’s Theatre;*The Twelve Days of Christmas*at Adventure Theatre,* Rumplestiltskin*at Imagination Stage and*Photo-Op*at UrbanArias. Turner is a graduate of Ithaca College and the National Theater Institute at Eugene O’Neill Theatre.

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