Makenna Perkal
Graduated Webster Conservatory!
I have graduated from Webster Conservatory, will be in New York City for the summer before moving out to Los Angeles in the fall. I'm ecstatic to be California bound!!
Finished Filming "The Tide"
A young woman, Mara, meets a robot that was thrown away due to technical flaws. She teaches the robot way of living until the robot itself becomes better equipped than Mara herself.
"Alone" is wrapped!
Two lonely twenty year olds find one another in hopes of filling a void. Emily Eve wants love, while her partner wants his inner demons to disappear .
"Men On Boats" at Webster Conservatory
Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. Men On Boats is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River.
"Lysistrata" at Webster Conservatory
Through movement, text and singing that cast of "Lysistrata" tells the story of women who use that which oppresses them to set them free.
SIUE Summer Stock's "The Tempest"
Makenna portrayed the character, Ariel, in Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
With the help of Ariel, Prospero creates a tempest to free himself from a deserted island.
"Slasher" at Webster Conservatory
When she's cast as the "last girl" in a low-budget slasher flick, Sheena thinks it's the big break she's been waiting for. But news of the movie unleashes her malingering mother's thwarted feminist rage, and Mom is prepared to do anything to stop filming...even if it kills her.
"Constellations" at Limerence Theatre
A simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world we think we know—delving into the infinite possibilities of their relationship and raising questions about the difference between choice and destiny.
The Chekov Intensive at
The Stella Adler Studio in NYC
Makenna studied movement, vocal and acting technique for Chekov pieces.
"The Rooming House Plays" at the Tennessee Williams Festival
A series of short pieces by Williams from different points in his career, they weren't written together. But David Kaplan (of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival) combines them for intriguing resonance, not only in terms of content but of staging.