FRANNY McCABE-BENNETT
  FRANNY McCABE-BENNETT
  • About Me
  • Performer
  • Playwright
    • SMASHES MEDIA
    • BAR STAR MEDIA
  • Vocal Coach
  • Accolades
  • Contact
  • Two Juliets
  • About Me
  • Performer
  • Playwright
    • SMASHES MEDIA
    • BAR STAR MEDIA
  • Vocal Coach
  • Accolades
  • Contact
  • Two Juliets

acting resume + reel

FRANNY McCABE-BENNETT

CAEA / ACTRA
HEIGHT: 5’8”       HAIR:  BROWN         EYES:  GREY         VOCALS: soprano/mezzo-soprano
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THEATRE (selected)

Book Club (July-Aug 2018)                    Eileen                                        Port Stanley Festival Theatre, dir: Liz Gilroy
Judith Lander's Birthday Cabaret          Featured soloist                      Jazz Bistro/Judith Lander  
The Real Inspector Hound                     Moon                                        Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts
Volpone, or The Fox                                
Lady Would-be                      Shakespeare BASH'd, dir: James Wallis
SMASHES+                                                Franny/Charlotte                   Buddies in Bad Times/Cabaret Company
Five Alarm                                                  Ellen                                         Port Stanley Festival Theatre, dir: Simon Joynes
Much Ado About Nothing                      Antonia, First Watch             Secret Shakespeare, dir: Sarah Phillips 
Love, Loss and What I Wore                 Merrill/Alex/Nancy                 Living Arts Centre/Galahad Productions 
XOXO: The Relationship Show+           Performer/co-creator           Toronto Fringe/Two Juliets
Perfect Wedding+                                     Julie                                           Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts
The Beaver Den: A New Musical           Phoebe                                    The Storefront/JazzSquared Productions
As You Like It                                             Phebe                                       Monday Funday Creation Group
Twelfth Night                                             Malvolio                                   Monday Funday Creation Group
The Taming of the Shrew                       Baptista                                    Monday Funday Creation Group
Proof+                                                           Catherine                                Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts
Miss Julie (workshop)                                Miss Julie                                 directed by Tatiana Jennings
Hair+                                                              Jeanie                                       Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts
We Walk Amongst You (workshop)      Puppeteer                               Artichoke Heart Collective
The Idiot (workshop)                                 Mrs Yepanchin                       Humber Theatre/Theatre Smith-Gilmour
Gulliver’s Travels                                         Queen of Brobdingnag        Humber Theatre, dir: Tatiana Jennings
The Winter’s Tale                                       Hermione                                Humber Theatre

+PLEASE SEE Accolades FOR AWARDS, HONOURS AND REVIEWS.

FILM + TELEVISION (selected)

Haunted Case Files                                  Principal                                  Travel + Escape Channel
HAZE                                                           Principal                                  Ryerson Film School    
The Signal                                                  Lead                                         24 Hour Toronto Film Challenge
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COMMERCIALS

Special K cereal & cereal bars               Leo Burnett Agency               International campaign, online and TV (Canada, USA, Australia, Asia)
Quickbooks Accounting                         Leo Burnett Agency               North American campaign, online and TV (Canada, USA)
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SPECIAL SKILLS + INTERESTS

Soprano/mezzo-soprano. Puppetry. Storytelling. Advanced choral singing, sight singing. Ukulele, flute. Beginner salsa, waltz, belly dance. Driver’s license (G). Sports: swimming (intermediate), axe throwing (beginner). British RP, Irish, general American, American Southern, as required.
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EDUCATION + TRAINING

Humber College, Theatre Performance • University of Guelph B.A. with Honours, Drama
IMPROV + SKETCH COMEDY:  Second City Training Centre, Toronto SketchFest, 24 Hour Sketch Challenge
➤ Second City:     - Improv for Actors 1 & 2: Frank McAnulty, Kevin Frank
                                  - Level D & E: Jess Grant, Alastair Forbes
                                  - Musical Improv A & B, Ukulele for Improvisors: Josh Murray, Nug Nahrgang, Peter Cavell
SCENE STUDY: Ravi Jain, Daniel Brooks, Tatiana Jennings, Judith Thompson
MONOLOGUE (CONTEMPORARY + SHAKESPEARE): Bruce Dow, James Wallis, Terry Tweed, Ian Watson
MOVEMENT + PHYSICAL THEATRE: Karin Randoja, Dean Gilmour, Varrick Grimes, Dan Watson
SINGING: Judith Lander, Marta McCarthy (University of Guelph Chamber Choir, Women's Choir)

Picture
(C) DAHLIA KATZ

VIDEOS + MUSIC

An evolution of "SMASHES", written and performed by Franny McCabe-Bennett
Sept 2017: Franny shares some advice about bad break ups.
​A scene from SMASHES.
June 2015: The first reading of SMASHES, originally titled: "Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Secret Bisexual? An Analysis of the (Love) Letters of Feminist Author Charlotte Perkins Gilman Written to Her Closest Female Friends (1880-1910) And Maybe Some Comments on Anne of Green Gables, Too".


"XOXO: The Relationship Show" / Two Juliets
written and performed by Meghan Chalmers & Franny McCabe-Bennett
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