LIBBY SKALA wrote and has performed her one-woman play LiLiA!

(about the life of her grandmother, actress Lilia Skala) to sold-out houses in

Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Winnipeg (where it was

selected “Best Show” out of 118 shows by CJUM Radio at the Winnipeg

Fringe Festival).  In New York it was produced by Mirror Repertory Company;

it opened Pacific Theatre’s 23rd season in Vancouver, followed by

performances in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia and in Dresden, Germany.  It also

toured to The Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, and enjoyed a three-week run

in London. 

Libby's second show A Time to Dance has been performed at the St.

Lawrence Shakespeare Festival's Sunday Series in Ontario, in The New York

International Fringe Festival, and in Emerging Artists Theatre's One-Woman

Standing Series.  It won "Best Solo Performer" award at the London Fringe

Festival and enjoyed a three-week run at Vancouver's Pacific Theatre as part

of their 25th anniversary season.

Last Updated: 5/17/2012

Bios

LIBBY

SKALA

Performer Writer

Libby's non-solo work includes appearing with Rosemary Harris, Marian Seldes, Elizabeth Ashley, Jayne Atkinson, Ronald Rand and David Margulies, reading from books published by The Feminist Press at the Jewish Museum in New York.  Regionally, she played the role of Viola in Twelfe Night at the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival in Canada; in Value of Names directed by Jeffrey Sweet at Theatre J  in Washington, DC; and in Painting Churches with Spokane Interplayers.  She starred in a film version of Romeo and Juliet for the Director’s View Film Festival, and makes appearances in the award-winning film festival hit Dogs in the Basement aka Unscrewed, and in Jonathan Glazer’s Birth, starring Nicole Kidman.

The Last Frontier Theatre Conference invited Libby to perform and teach workshops in solo writing and performance at The Prince William Sound Community College, a branch of the University of Alaska in Valdez.  She has been artist in residence at elementary and junior high schools in Scottsdale, AZ, is a graduate of Oberlin College and an award recipient of The Pandella Cultural Fund in Switzerland.