Heather Louise Parker
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Actor, Singer, Director, Musician-Pianist
Based in Los Angeles, CA
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Artist's Stats & Personals
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AGE RANGE:
HEIGHT:
HAIR:
EYES:
VOICE:
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18-35
5'4"
Blonde
Blue
Soprano
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INSTRUMENTS:
ALTERNATE OCCUPATION:
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Piano
Cello
Film Student
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OTHER SPECIAL SKILLS:
Good at sightreading piano, portraying "difficult patients
for UW medical students interviewing lecture.
Artist's Bio
Heather has spent the majority of 2001 directing
and collaborating on the new musical We Are Not Good Girls,
which had a 9 week sold-out run at the Liberty Deli Theatre
on Alki. After revisions and rewrites, the play, which is
written by Kate Hart, encored at the Meydenbauer
Center in Bellevue in September 2001.
Heather graduated from Andover in 1985, and from Oberlin college
with a B.A. in English, (and an unofficial minor in music)
in 1990. She spent the next ten years working doing scientific
research at places like Fred Hutchinson, but is back on track,
and now devotes all of her time to pursuing a career in theatre.
She was the Seattle coordinator for BookPALS (Performing Artists
for Literacy in Schools), a Screen Actors Guild Foundation
program in which actors volunteer their time to read to kids
in at-risk neighborhoods.
Heather's directing credits also inclue The Maids,
The Moments In Between, A Trap Is A Small Place,
and The Dining Room at Freehold Theatre. She also directed
Juliet and And if God Choose at the Freehold
Directorsí & Choreographersí Lab, as well as Into the Blue,
Blessed Be and The Party for the Freehold/Simon
Frasier Directors' and Choreograpers' Lab.
Heather's additional stage performance credits
include Too Much Water, The Wedding and The
Library with Pacific Performance Project; Johnsey in Falling
Leaves at Seattle Public Theatre; Lou in The Erpingham
Camp at the UW (1996) and Aro.Space (1998); Hailey in
a reading of The Closer for the NW Screenwriters Guild;
Beryl in Lucky Sorrow (which she wrote) and Kelly in
Poor Whiskers for Printer's Devil Play Bonanza; Briar
and Degas Dancer in Feasting at Aha! Theatre; Alexis
in Eat and Run (which she wrote) for A Broken Theatre;
Lee in Renaissance Man at New City Theatre; as well
as First Woman in A Certain Kind of Woman: Her Rite
(which she wrote), Court Reporter in All Powers Necessary
and Convenient, and Johanna in Home Free at Freehold
Theatre.
She played the fiancée in the film Mom's Special
Sauce for the UW Screenwriting Program and has helped
with UW medical student training playing multiple improvised
roles for the Difficult Patients Seminar from 1996-99 and
2001. Heather's sound design work includes Three Sisters
and The Seagull for Freehold.
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