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Courtney Wilkerson
Beautiful and sweet, Courtney did only one show with me, The
Odyssey, but she was wonderful to work with and a couple years
later when I saw her performing with the U of A based sketch
comedy troupe, The Charles Darwin Experience, I actually wished
I was still living in Tucson just so I could put on more plays
she could be in. A fabulously comic actress with a knack for
funny pretty women roles, Courtney was a riot as a bitter, bitchy
Helen of Troy, ruthlessly baiting Wylie Herman as Menelaus and
yet effortlessly switching into regal, mysterious elegance when
addressing Rick Hill as Telemachus. She was even funnier in
the second act as a childish handmaiden attending on the princess
Nausicaa, rolling out a blisteringly hysterical look of vapid
adoration every time Jim Driscoll-MacEachron’s Odysseus
looked at her, and she topped herself in the opening of act
three, this time as a befuddled mermaid flabbergasted when told
she was nothing more than a figment of someone’s imagination.
A dance major at the University when I met her, she did some
excellent tumbles while circling the raft of Odysseus, but rumor
has it she moved on to other art forms. When I saw her sketch
comedy act she was the token girl that night, and shot down
my suggestion of “crackhead” for a profession to
act out with the smiling retort, “This is a family show.”
Whatever, Courtney. You know you want to play a crackhead.
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