Headshot & Resume
DESIREE BURCH
Non-union
STAGE
“Full Body Quotation” Featured Performer New Museum/Performa ’11
“Tar Baby” Creator & Performer P.S.122
“52 Man Pickup” Creator & Performer Edinburgh, NY, Hollywood, New Orleans Fringe Joe’s Pub, 59E59, Ars Nova, Ohio Theatre
“The Soup Show” Co-Creator & Performer HERE Arts Center
“Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind” NY Ensemble (Lead) The New York Neo-Futurists (2006/2008/2010 NY-IT Award Recipients)
Smut Performance Series Emcee/Curator Galapagos Art Space
“Romeo and Juliet” Nurse (Supporting) Yale University; Stages on the Sound
“The Sit-Down Show” Creator & Performer Midtown Theatre Festival
“Rip Me Open” Co-Writer & Performer Dixon Place; Galapagos Art Space
“In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel” Miriam Conley (Lead) Columbia School of Theater
“Careless” Creator & Performer CenterStage NY; Mae West Fest
The 24-Hour Plays Featured Performer Atlantic Theater
FILM
“Maya’s Soul” Vicky (Featured) JOCO Films/Conrad Glover
“PBnJ Beckett” Featured Performer (Lead) NY Neo-Futurists/Justin Tolley
“Overtime” Office Hall Lady (Supporting) Victoria Labalme Productions
“The Losers” Basque Gang Leader (Featured) Habib Azar dir.
“Bodybuilder Island” Mysterious Woman (Lead) Meaty Okra Films/Matt Kliegman
TELEVISION
“100 Greatest Bodyshockers” Featured Commentator E4
“The Watch List” (Pilot) “Soul 4 Two # 1” Comedy Central
“Stories of Survival” Reenactment Performer The Maury Show
INTERNET
“Jack In a Box” Jill (Featured) NYTVF Best New Webseries (2010)
“Best Night Ever” Featured Host VH1 Networks
“Bitch & Moan” Featured Performer ComedyNet
“No-Fear Shakespeare” “As You Like It” Performer Barnes & Noble.com
COMEDY
NBC Studios, Carolines, Comix, Gotham, The New Musuem, Culture Project, Ars Nova, NY Improv
Regional: Cleveland, Boston, San Francisco, London, Edinburgh
TRAINING
Yale University B.A. in Theater Studies
Performance Studies: Deb Margolin | Stanislavski/Chekhov: James Luse | Shakespeare: Toni
Dorfman Mesiner: David Krasner ;
Post-Collegiate Training — Mesiner: Wynn Handman ; Isaac Byrne | Butoh: Jeff Janisheski
SKILLS
11 years acting/6 years improv comedy experience. Singing (Alto), voice-over, dance/movement, stand-
up/emcee, teaching/work with children, ordained minister/weddings, yoga, photography, swimming, bicycling,
weight training, harness training, corset/fetish training/wear, poetry and essay writing, cigarette rolling, valid
NYS driver’s license. Languages: French (5 years study); Dialects: Southern American, British, French.