Meet Martha Harms!

New KDT Artistic Company Member Martha Harms is no newbie to Dallas theater. Seen all over town, most recently in the hit On the Eve, Harms has landed at The MAC to bring to life marketing-loving Allison in RX at Kitchen Dog Theater.

MARTHA

FULL GIVEN NAME

Martha Lynne Harms

HOMETOWN

Elm Grove, Wisconsin (just outside Milwaukee)
 

ZODIAC SIGN

Leo

 

CURRENT SHOW (OTHER THAN YOUR OWN) THAT YOU HAVE BEEN RECOMMENDING TO FRIENDS

My Name is Rachel Corrie at Second Thought Theatre

FAVORITE PLAY
Every time I read Hamlet, I'm like OHMAGOD. One day, when I'm ready, I would like to direct it.


MOST PLAYED SONG ON YOUR IPOD/DEVICE

 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright'
 

LAST BOOK YOU READ

"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

MUST-SEE TV SHOW

GIRLS. Season 1. And Portlandia. And Breaking Bad. Oh God, Breaking Bad.

LAST GOOD MOVIE YOU SAW

How to Survive a Plague

 

PERFORMER YOU WOULD DROP EVERYTHING TO GO SEE

Fiona Shaw

POP CULTURE GUILTY PLEASURE

Dirty Dancing (1987). I have 2 records, a 10th anniversary DVD and a 2009 calendar that I will never throw out.

 

FAVORITE PRE-/POST-SHOW MEAL

I love a huge, steaming home-cooked meal when I come home from doing a show. It's the best thing.

WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE?

I wanted to be a veterinarian.

WORST FLUBBED LINE/MISSED CUE/ONSTAGE MISHAP

In high school, I played Cassie in A Chorus Line. She has a little break after her big solo and then everyone else "rehearses" [the song] "One Singular Sensation." She's supposed to join the chorus, but I totally misjudged how much time I had. I was eating an apple in the band room. A crew member ran to get me and in a panic I threw my apple over my shoulder and bolted to the stage.

 A PLAY THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE ON A DALLAS STAGE BUT SHOULD BE DONE

I hear Max Hartman would really like to do a revival of Cats.

ONE PLAY YOU HOPE YOU NEVER SEE AGAIN

The Last Cigarette by Steven Fechter. Bleh.

IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT HOLDS DALLAS BACK FROM THEATRICAL GREATNESS

We all need day jobs.

BUCKET LIST ROLES

Hedda Gabler

IF YOU HAD TO RUN A SHOW FOR 10 YEARS AND YOU GOT TO CHOOSE - WHAT WOULD IT BE?

Breath by Samuel Beckett

 SUPERSTITIONS?

I knock on wood. The one time I didn't, I was driving in my car with my mom and said, "Mom, I've never been in an accident." Two hours later I smashed into a Jaguar.

DREAM PROFESSION IF YOU DIDN'T BECOME AN ARTIST?

Maybe a pediatric occupational therapist.

FIRST SHOW TO SEE AT KITCHEN DOG

On An Average Day, starring Christopher Carlos and Joe Nemmers!



KDT Co-Artistic Director Christopher Carlos and
KDT Artistic Company Member Joe Nemmers in On An Average Day

FIRST SHOW TO BE IN AT KITCHEN DOG

Sick by Zayd Dohrn, 2008

Martha Harms, Lisa Hassler and Lee Helms in Sick.

 

BEST PIECE OF THEATER YOU'VE EVER SEEN

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, starring Tracy Letts and Amy Morton

 

See Martha rep the corporate world onstage starting this Friday in RX, running March 29 through April 27!

Buy tickets to RX here.

Meet Tina Parker!

KDT Co-Artistic Director Tina Parker has two official job titles with Kitchen Dog, but plays a million roles. Including, happily, the role of Meena in RX from March 29 through April 27 at Kitchen Dog Theater. See her live onstage, then check her out onscreen in Breaking Bad or this July in The Lone Ranger!

TINA

FULL GIVEN NAME

Tina Renee Parker

HOMETOWN

Born in Woodville, TX - currently live in Dallas

ZODIAC SIGN

Taurus

(Tina and Max are Birthday Twins!)

CURRENT SHOW (OTHER THAN YOUR OWN) THAT YOU HAVE BEEN RECOMMENDING TO FRIENDS

There's a lot of great stuff happening in Dallas - I have been digging what our friends over at the Undermain have been putting out. Solid, exciting stuff.

(Catch Scott Latham - last seen onstage at KDT in The Beauty Queen of Leenane - in Undermain Theatre's The Ghost Sonata starting April 13!)

MOST PLAYED SONG ON YOUR IPOD/DEVICE

'Time spent in Los Angeles' by Dawes

Also, local gal Sarah Jaffe's 'Clementine'

LAST BOOK YOU READ

Lately it's been all plays, all the time - New Works Fest is coming up at KDT and we have a GIANT stack (400!) to get through - but have read some REALLY good ones so far!!

MUST-SEE TV SHOW

Breaking Bad & Mad Men are my "stories." And I won't lie - I do love me some Top Chef and Project Runway.

LAST GOOD MOVIE YOU SAW

Argo. Though, best good/bad movie I saw recently was Theater of Blood starring the one and only Vincent Price - laugh out loud awesome. I highly recommend it to any actor. :)

PERFORMER YOU WOULD DROP EVERYTHING TO GO SEE

Prince

POP CULTURE GUILTY PLEASURE

Does watching Fashion Police and The Soup count?

(Editor's Note: Totes.)

FAVORITE PRE-/POST-SHOW MEAL

I can't really eat much before shows. But I do enjoy an ice-cold adult beverage and some kind of snack after the play.

WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE?

Horse jockey (but was already too tall in 1st grade - DEVASTATED!) & a Heart Surgeon (mostly because I loved medical TV programs like Quincy and Trapper John, MD)

Future heart surgeon

WORST FLUBBED LINE/MISSED CUE/ONSTAGE MISHAP

Stung by a wasp on my stomach multiple times onstage RIGHT before delivering a long direct-address monologue during Sore Throats. Good thing it was a pretty angry monologue... The wasp (which I rolled on during a long combat section of the play before it stung me) also proceeded, after the "fiery monologue," to walk very slowly up my bare back (I was only wearing a slip) and then crawl/buzz all over my head and face throughout the next scene. The expression on my scene partner's face was one of abject terror.

WORST COSTUME EVER

Not everyone knows how to costume a curvy girl so it's always "sad panda" time when you're given costumes that look like mother-of-the-bride ensembles and/or items from the "I've Given Up" Sag Harbor brand.

A PLAY THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE ON A DALLAS STAGE BUT SHOULD BE DONE

I ain't saying...in case KDT can get the rights to it. :)

ONE PLAY YOU HOPE YOU NEVER SEE AGAIN

Any of the TUNA plays.

IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT HOLDS DALLAS BACK FROM THEATRICAL GREATNESS

Overall buy-in from the general population of Dallas that theater is a cool/fun/invigorating thing to do - once you get them in the door and they experience some of the great work happening around town, then I think the dollars will follow (this is also a key component to keeping the arts alive in Dallas & Texas, as the arts seem to be the first thing cut in all budgets).

BUCKET LIST ROLES

Any of Tennessee Williams' women

IF YOU HAD TO RUN A SHOW FOR 10 YEARS AND YOU GOT TO CHOOSE - WHAT WOULD IT BE?

That I was in? Mr. Marmalade (great cast - hella fun to perform); that I directed? Hedwig & the Angry Inch (that music is just amazing and again - just a great group of people).

Tina Parker, William Paul Williams, KDT Artistic Company Members
Leah Spillman and Mike Federico in Mr. Marmalade 

Joey Steakley in Hedwig & the Angry Inch

SUPERSTITIONS?

I set routines for shows that I follow pretty religiously - down to preshow water consumption, Emergen-C & what music I listen to in the car. I'm a OCD nut that way.

DREAM PROFESSION IF YOU DIDN'T BECOME AN ARTIST?

Person who gets to name nail polish colors or perhaps a travel agent?

FIRST SHOW TO SEE AT KITCHEN DOG

Mud

FIRST SHOW TO BE IN AT KITCHEN DOG

Sore Throats by Howard Brenton

There are no photos of Sore Throats. 

Instead please enjoy this charming photo of 

KDT Co-Artistic Directors Christopher Carlos and Tina Parker 

onstage together in The Baltimore Waltz.

Don't miss your chance to see your favorite curtain-speech-giver go full-length and all-out in RX, running this Friday March 29 through April 27!

Buy tickets to RX here.

Read more about Tina in Lawson Taitte's feature in the Dallas Morning News here (sorry, paywall applies).

Meet Max Hartman!

MEET THE CAST:

Max Hartman is a multi multi hyphenate: actor in film, TV and theater, singer and instrumentalist in bands like MUR and Home by Hovercraft, and the national voice of Domino's Pizza. We're lucky to have him onstage twice at Kitchen Dog this season; first in BECKY SHAW and now in RX, where he plays Phil from March 29 through April 27 at Kitchen Dog Theater.

MAX

Full Given Name

Maxwell Lawrence Hartman

Hometown

Dallas

Zodiac Sign

Taurus

Current Show You Have Been Recommending to Friends

Cats! Editor's Note: You are about to see the answer "Cats!" a lot. So we decided to put a cute cat video with each one. For example: Cat Hugs Baby Kitten

Favorite Play

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Most Played Song on Your iPod/Device

Sinatra "The Summer Wind"

Last Book You Read

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Last Good Movie You Saw

Lincoln

Favorite Pre-/Post-Show Meal

Pasta

Superstitions?

Cats! Cat + Dolphin

Worst Flubbed Line/Missed Cue/Onstage Mishap

Went up on lyrics in "The Apple Tree" so I acted pensive 'till pianist had to vamp and whisper my cue

Worst Costume

The burlap-vest-fur-coat-fatsuit combo I wore in 100-degree heat filming A Four Course Meal. Click here to see the trailer - the whole thing is worth watching, but the vest-fur-fatsuit comes in around 2:50...

Must-See TV Show

Breaking Bad Check out KDT Co-Artistic Director Tina Parker as Francesca in 'Breaking Bad'!

Bucket List Roles

Sweeney Todd

First Show to See at Kitchen Dog

Mud

First Show to Be In at Kitchen Dog

The Taming of the Shrew (Max with Suzanne Thomas and James Kille in The Taming of the Shrew)

A Play That Hasn’t Been Done on a Dallas Stage But Should Be

Cats! Cats in water

Performer You Would Drop Everything to Go See

Bill Hicks Top 10 Bill Hicks jokes (according to Westword)

Show You Hope Never to See Again?

Cats! 27 Cats That Just Can't Handle It

What Did You Want To Be When You Were Little?

Batman

Best Piece of Theater You’ve Ever Seen

Cats! 25 Most Awkward Cat Sleeping Positions Dream Profession if You Didn’t Become an Artist? Private Investigator

Catch Max Hartman starting this week in RX, running March 29 through - April 27.

Buy tickets for RX here.