a few photos from rehearsals and shows. . .
Walking To Work from WAZO WAZO - C.P. Mimi Seton
MIMI'S NON-VERBAL OPERA, WAZO WAZO
Back row: Tony Abatemarco, Marta Woodhull, Roxanne Mayweather, Craig Zehms. Front: Judy Schonebaum, Mark Bringleson, Jan Munroe and Nijole Sparkiss. Lighting by Barbara Ling
Above: Mimi playing the Isabella character in Bertolt Brecht's play, Roundheads and Peekheads (inspired by Measure for Measure) ~ directed by Andy Doe, head of UC Santa Cruz Drama Dept.
 resting before The White Whore And The Bit Player, 1972, Antioch College |  In the 1st SF Playwrights Foundation Festival, directed by Alma Becker |  Jesse Borrego from Joanne Akalaitis's GREEN CARD (Mimi was a cast member too) |
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 Mimi and Ona Verushka singing The Alabama Song from Little Mahagony. Directed by R.G. Davis at Epic West. |  Mimi in Wallace Shawn's solo piece, The Fever, at Lauderdale House, London, Directed by the superb Eve Pearce, formerly of the Royal Shakespeare Co. Early 90s. |  Greg Thirloway flying over B D Wong in Mimi's multi-mediat piece, See Below Middle Sea at the Mark Taper Forum's TAPER TOO festival, late 80s. |
 Cast of Wazo Wazo, composed and created by Mimi Seton mid '80s, LA. |  Cast of Brain Hotel, L.A. c. 1982: Mimi, Mark Bringleson, Bill Castellino, Jane Shulman ~ all writer-performers. Dir. by Tony Abatemarco. |  Roxanne Mayweather in See Below Middle Sea |
 Mimi with manuscript of See Below Middle Sea for LA Weekly Interview |  Cast of See Below Middle Sea |  With B.D. Wong, star of Mimi's 'See Below Middle Sea' |
 Greg Thirloway, William Paisley and Roxanne Mayweather in See Below Middle Sea, Taper, Too |  Don Preston (Mothers of Invention) played for Mimi's pieces, Wazo Wazo and See Below Middle Sea |  Judith Schonebaum, singer in Wazo Wazo |
 Comedy of Errors cast~ Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Mimi, Joe Spano, Karen Ingenthron, Ron Vernan, Linda Lee Johnson. |  Playwright John O'keefe int he middle ~ Mark Bringleson and Tina Preston on the ends |  Cast of Green Card ~ including Mimi, Jessie Nelson, Jesse Borrego, Jim Nishida, Ray Birke, Dana Lee, Alma Martinez, Rosalind Chao, Costulo Guerra an Josie Park ~ at the Mark Taper Forum |
 Mimi getting a kiss from Dick Shawn in The Emperor's New Clothes, (Showtime TV) |  Composer Matthew Goldsby rehearsing for the reading of Mimi's, Body Without Bones, for Skylight Theatre 2015 |  Mimi playing Fanny in La Geographie Du Desir, Theatre Grevin, Paris. Dir. by Tony Abatemaro. |
 Jean Francois Rey in performance at U of Paris (dir by Mimi) |  Tommie Thompson (from The Wiz) in Mimi's singing class in NYC 2013 |  Nick Fryman, pianist, with MB Gordy, drummer, Music Medicine Show excerpt, Studio Stage, L.A. 2015 |
 Angie Jarre, Cortez Alexander and Ali Olmo singing a tune from Body Without Bones by Matt Goldsby and Mimi for Playwrights' Arena fundraiser, L.A. 2014 |  Marianne Lewis ~ singer and inspirational speaker who has worked with Mimi on several projects, including this year's Music Medicine Show excerpt. |  Tony Gonzales singing in The Music Medicine Show excerpt 2015, conceived and composed by Mimi Seton |
 Patrick De Santis, a colleague of Mimi's from the improvisation company Brew Ha Ha and Peggy Baldwin, cellist for Mimi's play, The Abduction Of Lady Wen Chi |  Music Medicine Show excerpt, Studio Stage, L.A. 2015. MB Gordy, Tony Gonzalez, Cade Parenti |  Tony Gonzales, Cade Parenti, T.R. Krupa and Chris Acuff singing in an excerpt from the Music Medicine Show, 2015 |
 Mimi with cast of Music Medicine |  Roxanne, Marianne, Natalie and Kerry (L to R) Music Medicine excerpt |  with Laurie O'Brien, star of Mimi's play reading: Conversations With The Water Man |
 Mimi and Chazz Frichtel, bass player, at the reading of MOTHER MORPHINE, written and performed by Mimi with Chazz and Rick Casorla at Altadena Library, 2015 |  Actors Angela Paton, (Mimi), Darrell Larson, O-Lan Jones and Jessica Rao at the reading-with-songs of Mimi's play, Body Without Bones, Skylight Theatre, L.A. 2015 |  Lily Knight & Anna Mathias, Mimi, Mindy Kittay and Tina Preston |
 Rehearsing The Music Medicine Show (excerpt) 2015, L.A. |  Mega-talent, O-Lan Jones in Mimi's play, Body Without Bones ~ a reading with songs at Skylight Theatre. |  Actor, singer, composer, pianist John Allee, who played Male Mother in the reading at Skylight theatre of Mimi's play, Body Without Bones. Music by Matthew Goldsby. |
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 Ali Olmo who sang on the demo for Body Without Bones and has done several of Mimi's musical projects prior, including the solo demo for CAT/GATO ~ a song Mimi wrote from Sesame Street star, Sonia Menzano. |  Jessica Rao and Anna Mathias rehearsing for the Body Without Bones reading at Skylight Theatre, L.A. 2013 |  Tony Abatemarco with the the director of the Body Without Bones reading, Julianne Just |
 Robert Boress (L) who played in Mimi's piece 'See Below' and Fu Ding Cheng who did the cover art for her jazz albums |  Story-teller and percussionist, Danya Schwartz, whose one-woman show ('Aye Aye Aye Oy Vey!') Mimi co-directed for performance at Beyond Baroque, 2014 |  Cast of Mimi's show, Blue Corridor, created by Mark Bringleson |
 Roxanne Mayweather and Craig Zehms rehearsing See Below Middle Sea at Taper, Too |  Setting up the piano for Mimi's voice workshops at Pearl Studios, NYC |  Mimi in a small role on Streets of San Francisco with Michael Douglas...playing an angry young prostitute |
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