I am rereleasing an episode I did with the wonderful Denise Oucharek! This woman is dynamic, talented, thoughtful, so creative, and has a heart of gold! If you missed her interview the first time around, give it a listen!
Have you ever wondered how to have a career in the arts, have a lasting marriage, raise your children and still be a grounded, compassionate and good humoured human being? Meet Denise Oucharek. In this episode, we discuss all of these things and pretty much everything else under the sun about performing life.
As a performer, Denise has appeared in plays, musicals, and concerts on stages across Canada as well as on t.v screens in Canada and the U.S in numerous commercials.
Denise Oucharek: Agents and Relationships and Balance! Oh My!
Selected Theatre credits include: Rosie in Mamma Mia! (Port Hope Festival Theatre); Ursula/Mother Abbess u.s in The Sound of Music (The Stratford Festival); Ensemble/Nettie Fowler u.s in Carousel (The Stratford Festival); Anna in The Anna Russell Story (Theatre Aquarius); Rita/Singer in Flying On Her Own (Neptune Theatre, Halifax); workshops of Canadian musicals entitled Pilgrim’s Progress (Lighthouse Festival Theatre, Port Dover) & Evangeline (Mirvish Productions); Anne Parker in Queen for a Day The Musical (April 30th Entertainment) Golde in Fiddler on the Roof, Annie Golden in Leader Of The Pack, Mme Wardrobe in Beauty & the Beast, Georgie in The Full Monty, Angela Miller in The Last Resort (Stage West, Mississauga); Kate in Remember Maggy? (Maggy Productions); Woman 2 in Songs for A New World (Angelwalk Productions); Bird Girl in Seussical (Theatre Aquarius); Wanda in Wanda’s Visit, Sr. Mary in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it all for you (The People’s Theatre)Sister Amnesia in Nunsense II (King’s Wharf Theatre); Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore (Kingston Symphony); Lily in The Secret Garden (YWP); The Narrator in Joseph & the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, The Witch in Into The Woods, Lalume in Kismet (Grand Theatre, Kingston); and Suor Angelica in Puccini’s Suor Angelica; Ensemble/Rosie u.s in Mamma Mia! (Mirvish Productions).
Denise received her B.Mus. and B.Ed. from Queen’s University and was the recipient of the 1997 Mississauga Arts Council Award as Emerging Artist in Theatre. As an educator, Denise is a member of the Voice faculty at Sheridan College and The University of Toronto’s Theatre and Drama Studies program (UTM), has taught vocal improv at Second City, teaches/coaches privately and serves as artistic director for Theatre Atoms.
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Twitter: @deniseoucharek
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