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Amanda Karam
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Mandy started her Quicksilver association with I Laughed, I
Cried, I Shot The Person Next to Me, when her then boyfriend,
Chris McCaleb introduced her to our circle. Like everyone else
in the show, she played a number of roles throughout the evening,
but the following summer, when she nabbed the role of Margaret,
she was the only woman in Faust not double-cast, and along with
Werner James as the younger Faust, carried the romantic plot-line
of the play. Beautiful, composed, earthy and dreamy at the same
time, Amanda launched herself as an actress who worked best
in unusual, complicated female roles where the internal conflict
of the character was often between what she wanted and what
she was supposed to want. She perfectly captured the simplicity
of Margaret’s peasant life and piety, versus the richness
of her fantasy life and sensuality of her attraction to Faust.
That winter she inverted the formula, originating the role of
Jenny in the premiere of The Exiled and making the part as comic
and approachable as Margaret was tragic and ethereal, and chipping
her tooth on the lip of a wine bottle during the third performance.
That following summer Amanda moved to Los Angeles, where she
worked for Carl Sagan Productions doing voice-overs and appeared
in the film Sorority Boys, where she had no lines or character
name, but appears in about every third shot of the film. She
had already appeared in the Chris McCaleb films Murmur and Insomnia,
which she co-wrote with Chris and myself, but after a couple
years of hammering at the industry gates she returned to Tucson
and the University of Arizona to pursue her first love, astronomy.
We were happy to have her back and Anne Heintz immediately cast
her in the Horror Unspeakable production of Mounted and Pinned,
where ironically she played a girl who dreamed of moving to
Los Angeles. She next returned to Quicksilver in The Odyssey,
playing the witch Circe, amongst other roles, for the second
time in her career appearing opposite Jim Driscoll-MacEachron,
who had previously played her lover in the U of A production
of Broken Bones. Her last stage appearance to date was in the
Horror Unspeakable double production of Snapshot and The Attack
of the Killer Space Zombies, in which she originated the adulterous
wife at the center of the story in the former, and the brave
but under-appreciated Daisy in the later. Her wedding gown in
Sanpshot later showed up as Kendra Webb’s outfit to Anne
and Jim’s real-life wedding, and for Daisy she wore an
electric pink wig and black vinyl dress which had been purchased
for the film of Insomnia, proving the age-old adage that the
wardrobe of a true actress never dies, even if she becomes an
astronomer.
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