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Dana is a theatre geek and IT professional based in Seattle, WA. She's been making music and theatre since childhood, and web sites since 1994. The focus of the material on this site is testing, a test project to build a presence on Reverbnation and use it to stream songs for personal testing of site features on a variety of devices and platforms., and for song-learning purposes, and to test different recording techniques and equipment. And, to occasionally try the embedded tools to let friends and family know about music and theatre projects. Dana's musical projects have included singing in church, playing bass in a rock band and drums in a blues band. She grew up in symphonies, jazz bands and marching bands playing cello, percussion and electric bass. She began playing guitar and singing rock/folk/blues in earnest in the 1990s, and has been a featured artist at open mikes in the Seattle area, but primarily enjoys the guitar as a means to sing-alongs with friends and family. Dana's theatre projects have been primarily non-musical, with the exception of roles such as Wendi in Angry Housewives and a few Gilbert & Sullivan shows. In her deep past, she sang tenor in a gospel choir, mezzo-soprano in classical projects and contralto in opera projects. Her non-musical theatre roles have included roles like Marmee in Little Women, Kate in Sylvia, Marilla in Anne of Green Gables, Mickey in The Odd Couple (Female Version), Gloria in Grace & Glorie, Mrs. Hale in Trifles, and Aunt Eileen in the Cripple of Inishmaan. Her theatre resume is on her web site at www.danarice.net. Thanks for checking out the test tracks and rehearsal recordings on this site.
“Dana Rice is the Angry Housewives band's beat, the with-it drummer who really can get the pulse out of anything. Rice, at one point, puts on an exhibition with the sticks on chairs, a garbage can lid and a bannister railing. You swear wood, tin and iron can talk.”
The Enterprise
“Things begin to click with the arrival of Mrs. March. Rice ably projects the kind of exhausted, loving attentiveness that any mother hopes she can muster at day's end. Her steady performance anchors not only her children but the show.”
The Seattle Times
“Rice gives a mean performance...”
The Everett Herald
“Rice's Gloria is strong and determined, yet we see tenderness and pain break forth from her tough-as-nails presentation. Both actresses play off one another well, which breathes life and energy into Tom Ziegler's heart-warming script.”
Highline Times / Des Moines News
“This is a funny, uninhibited lead cast... Wherever they are, the likes of Jolson, Mae West and the Foys have got to be taking notice.”
The Enterprise
“Definitely worth the trip to Burien to see acting at its finest...”
Seattle Gay News
“Watching the battle of wits betwen these women is not like witnessing a war. Instead, it is more like watching one of Grace's apple trees blossom into a wonderful orchard of trees.”
Highline Times / Des Moines News
“Run, don't walk. Tickets to this one are selling fast. It's big. It's bold. It's a blockbuster...
This is a funny, uninhibited lead cast that's got to be putting something of themselves into the roles they make understandable to even the most chauvinistic of us.”
The Enterprise
“..Shanna Allman and Dana Rice effectively convey their growing understanding of the costs of that reality and its social implications. Much... growth takes place, but without actor tricks, or sentimentality. It's all the more powerful because of the subtlety with which it is presented.”
Queen Anne News
“...Stand-out performances by Dana Rice as the clever, courageous Lysistrata, Laurie Winogrand as her comrade in arms Kleonike, and Joey McGuire as an 'over-inflated' husband keep the action quick, clean and amusing.”
Seattle Performs
“Dana Rice is great in the role of Wendi...”
The Mukilteo Beacon
“Dana Rice of Seattle was commanding and funny as the definite, no-nonsense police officer, Mickey.”
The Enterprise
“Dana Rice's portrayal of Sybil Birling is the ultimate society matron...”
Highline Times / Des Moines News
