Sonita L Surratt

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Music

Choir Director ............................................................   Signature Syracuse

Music Director, Adult Vocal Ensemble......................... Metropolitan School for the Arts

Vocal and Music Explorations Teacher........................ Metropolitan School for the Arts

Music Director, Students w/Disabilities Ensemble.........  Metropolitan School for the Arts

Music Director ...........................................................  “Valley Song” (Athol Fugard) – Contemporary Theatre of Syracuse

Music Director ...........................................................   Peace Child / Creative Response (of Syracuse)

Music Director ...........................................................  Unity Church of Today

Vocal Coach ..............................................................  Five to Life (Sammy Award Winners)

  

Theatre

Chair, Theatre Arts Department , Acting Instructor ....................................................   Metropolitan School for the Arts

Adjunct Instructor, “Creative Expression” (Music-Theatre-Movement) .......................  Onondaga Community College

Adjunct Instructor, “Speech and Drama in the Classroom” .........................................  Syracuse University (School of Education)

Teaching Artist ...........................................................   Aethestic Education Institute

Assistant Director .......................................................  “The Heiress” - SU Drama Department

Stage Manager ................................................ “Statements After an Arrest under the Immorality Act” - SU Drama Department

 

Performance Portfolio

Glimmerglass Opera

Peasant Woman .................................  “Yeoman of the Guard” (Gilbert & Sullivan)

Saucy Maid ........................................  “Don Pasquale” (Donizetti)

Street Vendor .....................................  “La Boheme” (Puccini)

Syracuse Opera Company

Choir ..................................................  “Aida” (Verdi)

 

Syracuse Oratorio Society & Syracuse Symphony

Choir ..................................................  “Brahm’s Requiem”

Choir ..................................................  “Mahler’s Requiem”

Stage - Character Roles

Mother Smith .....................................  "Fever 1776" (adapted by Steven Braddock)

Jacintha  .............................................  “Prison Testimony” (Safiya Henderson-Holmes)

Dussie Mae ........................................  “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (August Wilson)

Lena Younger .....................................  “A Raisin in the Sun” (Lorraine Hansberry)

Tourist ................................................  “Lettice and Lovage” (Peter Shaffer)

 

 

Original Work (Playwright, Script Writer, Artisitc Director)

 

Phillis: A Forgotten Voice

 

What did she say and what couldn’t she say? Premiere Spring 2005

 

Song of Freedom

Dramatic musical tribute to Phillis Wheatley, first freed slave to publish poetry in United States

 

Opera in the Hood

Comedic performance of operatic and classical music

 

I’m Every Womon

Co-Writer & Director.  Dramatic Musical presentation for Syracuse University Martin Luther King 2000 Celebration

 

I’m Every Womon

Co-Writer & Director.  A one act developed out of dramatic musical.  Premiered May 2001 at Contemporary Theatre of Syracuse.

 

Martin Luther King Celebration

 

 

Writer and director of dramatic presentations for annual celebration.  (5 years)

 

 

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