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career highlights:

 

 

Age 19:  assistant to Artistic Director, William Ball, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco.  

 

Age 20:  Actors Equity Apprenticeship, Theatre Co. of Boston, under director, David Wheeler.

 

Age 22-24: copy editor for THE VILLAGE VOICE newspaper and NEW WEST MAGAZINE; managing editor, Susan Lyne.

 

 

After earning a BA in Theatre from Antioch College (Ohio)  and a Diploma in Acting from The Drama Studio in London, Mimi moved to the Bay Area, where she acted and sang in 20 roles over the next 5 years at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Stage Co., Epic West, etc. 

 

She also hosted her own interview show on Pacifica Radio, Before The News, in which she conversed with artists from all disciplines and she won a broadcasting award for her public service announcements for Bay Area Water Conservation.

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By age 50, Mimi had played 54 theatre roles in the US and Europe, and over 2000 audio RECORDINGS as a director and actor,  including directing the long-running animated series, NORMAN NORMAL for Magma Films, Galway, and playing 2 title roles in Paris for the Frech animated series, KIMBO and the German series, VIKI THE VIKING. 

 

She dubbed a number of  film roles in Paris, France, including the voices of Catherine De Neuve and Marie-Christine Barrault.  She dubbed one lead for Wim Wenders and did guide tracks for Helen Hunt and Kathy Bates.

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A life-long traveler, Mimi has lived in  Europe for well over 20 years, working in Theatre and Music as an artist and  teaching at a number of Theatre programs, including the University of Paris and Trinity College Dublin.

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In 2000,  she went to graduate school in the MA in Psychological Counseling program at Pacifica Graduate  Institute,  in Santa Barbara, CA. where she earned a 4.0 average and was elected Class Representative to the school administration.  

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She was later licensed in NLP through the Ph.D. in Integrated Healing program at Barron University, in L.A.

 

From 2000-2006, she studied Science of Mind Philosophy at Agape International Spiritual Center with Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith and other ministers.   

 

She also studied mediumship at The College of Psychic Studies in South Kensington, London in early 2013 and has been a working intuitive counsellor from 2006, not only giving psychic readings to thousands of cliens,  but helping interested people develop their own psychism and mediumship gifts individually and in group workshops.

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Put simply: creative impulses  and psychism both occur when the human brain is in the alpha or theta brain wave state. This is the state of DEEP RELAXATION.

 

Mimi first learned to "go into alpha" consciously from Mexican visionary, JOSE SILVA, when she was 17.   Jose was the founder of a mind-training system now called: The Silva Method.

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Mimi has facilitated creativity workshops for all kinds of people outside of the Arts as well as working with writers and performers.  Civlians have included teachers, business executives, incarcerated teens and abused children.

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plays with music written and composed by Mimi:

 

BRAIN HOTEL

WAZO WAZO

SEE BELOW MIDDLE SEA

SUPPERMAN

SIR VIVAL'S SWEEPSTAKES

BODY WITHOUT BONES 

THE ABDUCTION OF LADY WEN CHI

THE MUSIC MEDICINE SHOW (in progress)

 

 

plays without music written by Mimi:

 

HAMSTERS

CRONES

CONVERSATION WITH THE WATERMAN

MOTHER MORPHINE

 

music composition commissions: 

 

GOOD PERSON OF SEZUAN (Trinity College Dublin)

SCHOOL TALK  (one song for the Mark Taper Forum's ITP)

SONIA MENZANO (children's album demo

arranged by Carlos Alomar from David Bowie Group)

THE TROJAN WOMEN (Insite Productions,

L.A. Ovation award nomination for Best Adaptation)

SUPPERMAN for The Museum of Science and Industry, L.A.,

text and music

 

 

voice over highlights:

 

directed recordings for cartoons, industrials, public service

announcements and independent films

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voiced the 'guide tracks' for Helen Hunt and Kathy Bates

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"voice prints" of Mae West, Joan Rivers, Sally Kellerman, etc. for commercials

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awards and grants:

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2 California Arts Council Grants

Rockefeller Grant for Music Composition 

10 Drama Logue and LA Weekly Awards 

Bay Area Radio award for public service annnouncing

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Volunteerism:

 

Medecins Sans Frontieres

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

MacLaren Hall School for abused, abandoned and neglected children (wards of the state of California). Mimi created plays and books with children at the school over a 3 year period.

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She also created an educational program for teenaged felons,  later funded by the CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL and expanded to include several other artist-teachers, under the auspices of the L.A. Theatre Works's, Sarah Maltsby

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Mimi is a featured artist on the intriguing DVD:

Speaking of Creativity, available on Amazon.