

Vilma has been a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 25 seasons, appearing in over 50 productions, most recently in King John, an all-female and non-binary OSF production in collaboration with the Upstart Crow Collective, as King Philip of France and Lord Salisbury. Vilma is delighted to be making her McCarter Theatre debut in A Christmas Carol, her first production of this beloved play. Education: MFA in Acting from Louisiana State University BA in Theater and Zoology from Ohio Wesleyan University attended Trinity College, Kandy, Sri Lanka where he started acting as a child. Film: Someone Grea t, This Is Where I Leave You, Submission. Television: New Amsterdam, Girls5Eva, Jessica Jones, Atlanta, The Detour, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Gotham, Orange is the New Black, Awakwafina is Nora from Queens, WeCrashed, Helpsters. Regional: Petrol Station (The Kennedy Center) Guards at the Taj (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company) Indian Ink (American Conservatory Theater) Cocktail (Swine Palace & Ping Chong and Company) Hair (Swine Palace) Romeo & Juliet (North Carolina Shakespeare) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tennessee Shakespeare). Other credits include Off-Broadway: Measure for Measure (Theatre for a New Audience) As You Like It (Baruch PAC). He has played several roles in A Christmas Carol at The Hartford Stage and the Hanover Theatre recently. is thankful and excited to be making his debut at McCarter. University of Delaware-PTTP (M.F.A.) Para mi Familia, who are what Christmas means to me. Gisela works to create greater visibility for black and brown stories. As an often-engaged public speaker, Gisela has lectured to hundreds of corporate executives and college students on branding and presentation. Her audiobooks are numerous including Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, The Talk, among others, with awards for narration of The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende, Velvet Was the Night, and The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Susan Stroman) She has worked Off-Broadway and in prestigious Regional Theaters-recently in the wildly popular Quixote Nuevo, opposite Sesame Street’s beloved Emilio Delgado. Gisela recently made her Broadway debut with the raucous women-led comedy POTUS (d. In Portuguese: The Olympic Games in Brazil. In Spanish: Wasp Network opposite Penélope Cruz, Bel Canto opposite Julianne Moore & Ken Watanabe. Gisela’s Film/TV Acting credits include: The Unholy, AWKWAFINA is Nora from Queens, FBI, Law and Order: SVU, and Manifest.
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Tickets & Events Toggle expand sub-navigation items.This book is featured in our collection of Books for Young Readers and Christmas Stories. A story that has given us timeless characters like Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, and Tiny Tim. Enjoy Charles Dickens' masterful tale of redemption.
CHRISTMAS CAROL SERIAL
In serial order the ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come visit old Scrooge, and are able to spark a dramatic change in the bitter old man. Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased partner visits old man Scrooge as he is making his way home on Christmas Eve. Running his business with tyrannical authority, the oppressive boss is so cheerless that he refuses to show Bob Cratchit, his over worked and underpaid employee any quarter, even on the day before Christmas. Scrooge holds much of the world in contempt and has sacrificed love and friendship to the worship of money. A Christmas Carol is a morality tale of a bitter old miser named Ebeneezer Scrooge. Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas (1843) remains one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time.
