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...pretty boring,” says Talisa B. Friedman ’10, who in reality, is anything but. Alongside Carolyn W. Holding ’10, she was recently awarded the Jonathan Levy Award in Drama by the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA), a prize recognizing the most promising undergraduate actor or actress in the College. Her performance credits include eleven Harvard productions and several productions staged abroad and overseas...
...addition to playing several lead roles, notably Sandy in “Grease,” Clytemnestra in the Visting Director’s project “The Flies” and Ophelia in “Hamlet,” Friedman has performed in two Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) Visiting Directors’ Projects and one professional A.R.T. work. She is grateful to have taken advantage of professional theater...
...Friedman got her start in South Africa, where she lived from the ages of eight to twelve. She started singing in a touring children’s choir, then auditioned for a show choir, which she credits with pushing her in a more theatrical direction. In high school she dabbled in professional shows, small films, Shakespeare studies, and directing but found a particular passion for acting. “I realized I liked acting better than singing because it required a lot more intelligence and thought...
...Choosing a school without a theater major was a wild move at the time,” says Friedman. She knew she wanted to work in the business, but decided against conservatory training. “Everyone in the industry that I knew told me to go to a liberal arts school,” says the English concentrator with a secondary in Dramatic Arts. “I thought maybe they were telling me that because they didn’t think I was going to make it.” However, Friedman seems to have underestimated...
...Crimson got what it was looking for yesterday afternoon, scoring in six innings to win a wild 13-12 victory over Northeastern at Friedman Diamond...