| 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. |
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