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Alba Jaramillo
Alba was the very last person to walk through the door at the
auditions for Lysistrata, and she had the most beautiful headshot
I had ever seen. One of the nicest, shiest girls I’ve
ever met, Alba seemed cursed to get hysterical women roles,
and aside from playing, to perfection, Cassandra in my production
of The Oresteia, her other most notable acting achievement was
in the film Fuentte Ovejuna, in which she played an agonized
pregnant teenager. She was one of the three masked chorus girls
in Lysistrata and as the unmasked Achelia got to dump water
on Wylie Herman. She assistant directed The Butler Did It! and
got to go on twice in Leah Heifferon’s role, which she
understudied. Before leaving the acting life to pursue other
interests she appeared in Borderlands’ Tucson Pastorella
and Antony And Cleopatra with Tucson Parks & Rec, but in
the long run her delicate nature seemed better suited for gentler
professions, which is a shame because she certainly had the
talent. Even Chuck Graham, who trashed The Oresteia in the Tucson
Citizen, fell in love with her as Cassandra, and it was hard
not to. She had these huge brown eyes and acted from the heart
and understood the elegant way of screaming as if her life depended
on it.
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