Biography

This fall, Ms. Parrish will appear as Jenny in Death of a Salesman with Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre. Ms. Parrish played Brenda in Paris by Cole Porter with the Obie Award winning Musicals Tonight! April 2008, directed by Tom Mills, musical direction by Rick Hip Flores, produced by Mel Miller. Other cast members included David Edwards, Gina Milo, Jennifer Evans, Kevin Kraft, Mary Van Arsdel, John Alban Coughlan and Selby Brown. September/October, 2007, Ms. Parrish played Maisie in Sherlock Holmes; The Early Years which was presented at the highly acclaimed New York Music Festival (NYMF). Sherlock received several mentions in the 2007 NYMF awards and won the Theater for the American Musical Award (TAM) 2007. In May 2007, Ms. Parrish played Ana in the staged reading of the new musical Goin' Down Swinging by Hilliard and Boresi, directed by Jenny Lord, Beth Morrison Productions at Center Stage, NYC. Goin' Down Swinging was featured in NYMF 2007. She played Rose, the dark lady, in a staged reading of Blair Fell's award winning play Naked Will at the Michael Weller Theatre NYC with SRT. In March '07, Ms. Parrish completed a successful run of Miss Witherspoon by Christopher Durang at the Maine Public Theatre, in which she plays spiritual guide of the netherworld, Maryamma.

Ms. Parrish was accepted into and participated in several prestigious arts programs throughout her early education including the Tri-District Arts Consortium in SC and the SC Govenors School of the Arts. She was also awarded Superior in Acting from the South Eastern Theatre Conference in 1990.

Ms. Parrish began her professional actor's training at the North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA) where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree majoring in Drama. NCSA is ranked one of the top acting conservatories in the nation next to The Julliard School, New York University, and Carnegie Mellon. At NCSA, Ms. Parrish received extensive classical training including voice and speech work with an emphasis on alignment, mask and movement, both the Meisner and Stanislovski Techniques, and Shakespeare. She has been trained by some of the best teachers in the nation, including world renowned director and NCSA Dean, Gerald Freedman, Cigdem Onat, and Broadway dance legend, Molly Murray. While at school, Ms. Parrish played The Bakers Wife in Into the Woods, Beatrice in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds and Natasha in Rough Crossing (a role she reprised just recently at Maine Public Theatre). After graduating, she returned to play the role of Angharad in the musical version of the novel "How Green Was My Valley" entitled A Time for Singing, written by Gerald Freedman and John Morris.

Since moving to New York, Ms. Parrish has been working in New York in the off and off-off Broadway scene as well as regionaly and in national tours. In the summer of 2000, Ms. Parrish had the great fortune of studying with Patsy Rodenburg and Ian McKellen at the Royal National Theatre in London.

Ms. Parrish is currently enrolled at Point Park University in the MFA in Theatre Performance and Pedagogy Program and finishing an MA degree in Psychology.