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Cristina Ulloa
One day, while heading over to the Flandrau Planetarium where
Anne Heintz was staging her production of Hamlet in which I
was playing Horatio, I saw the kind of sight you only get to
see when you have a life in the theater: namely, a hot girl
pulling up in a pick-up truck, getting out and unloading a handful
of medieval spears. Said girl, this time around (and believe
me, there have been many) was Cristina Ulloa, who turned out
to be the stage manager on that production and a few years later
would end up joining the cast of my rendering of Le Cid, playing
Donna Arias and looking quite fetching in her emerald green
dress. Cristina was a theater major at the University, appearing
in productions of Muse, The Three Penny Opera and Six Degrees
of Seperation and directing Anne Heintz in a hysterical production
of The Original Last Wish Baby, but I think her biggest splash
was creating the role of Iris, the Warrior Princess of Venus,
in The Attack of the Killer Space Zombies. Collaborating with
Jim Driscoll-MacEachron on the show’s fight choreography,
Cristina got to come in at the end and save the day, defeating
Jim in an extensive, brilliantly silly battle that culminated
in her vanquishing him with her radioactive lip gloss. Clad
in a form fitting gold tube dress and luxurious hair extensions,
she was so good people applauded every time she came and left
the stage. These days Cristina is still living in Tucson, selling
real estate and quietly plotting a return to the stage once
she’s settled into her married life. Doubtless the future
holds many fine roles for her, but I’m she’ll always
be my little space princess.
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