RILEY K WEBSTER
Riley is a director, performer, sometimes-writer, and supernatural presence based in southern Maine, western Maine, midcoast Maine, North Jersey Shore, and Manhattan. All at once! She has a particular affinity for Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, Butoh, Noh, and is always having a passionate probably one-sided love affair with Weimar-era silent film. She is, unfortunately, very very bored of realism in the American theatre and lives for the gothic, the grotesque, and the camp!
She is also REALLY TIRED of writing about herself in third person now!!!
I hold my BFA in Theatre Arts with a concentration in Musical Theatre from Long Island University Post, where I was Hogwarts-style sorted into the Physical Theatre Text Analysis track under Tina Mitchell, Leon Ingulsrud, and Akiko Aizawa.
Outside of my theatrical pursuits I am usually covered in dirt and twigs and slime and stuff. I enjoy long treacherous walks through the brambles to my local bog, communing with the plants in my vegetable garden, beating the sh*t out of invasive plants, and chasing squirrels off of my bird feeder with a big stick. I truly believe that no one in this life can out-eat me when fried clams are on the table, and if they do, I guess I will have to reluctantly offer my hand in marriage or something because that is absurd.
and what’s riley up to now?
Currently taking a breather after a good five years of not sitting still… and then heading into rehearsals next month for Another Evening at Dave’s Sauna with Cow Pasture Productions for performances in Portland and Norway.
Also incredibly excited to be joining the cast of Ellen McLaughlin’s Iphigenia and Other Daughters with Heartwood Regional Theater Company as Iphigenia in early summer :)
perfecting the directorial perch
my sorrybird, photographed by kenedi chriske