Production Stills
Olga de Velaris in Anima (Her Soul)
Directed by Becca Westbrook
Mary Baldwin University, Shakespeare and Performance, February 2025
"The beating heart of Anima is clearly Olga, and Raube-Wilson’s portrayal allowed it to fuel every moment. Her Olga was a raw nerve, assured and put-together, but with her own vulnerabilities that could allow the whole house of cards to come tumbling down with enough pressure. It’s a balancing act, especially for a text that’s new — and let’s be real here, relatively modern — for a Shakespeare & Performance show."
Jaques and Oliver in As You Like It
Directed by Becca Westbrook and Megan Parlett
Mary Baldwin University, Shakespeare and Performance, May 2024
Photography by John Simmins
"[Raube-Wilson's] Jaques was a deliberately needling presence, a goth lesbian who encouraged Amiens to play “Love Shack” to the bar’s delight, before cutting it off and regaling them with a brilliantly committed acapella rendition of Alanis Morissette’s “All I Really Want” (as music director, Raube-Wilson’s needle-drops were pitch-perfect). But Jaques’s acid tone was rooted in a pain that came through clearly during her “All the world’s a stage” speech, during which she welled up with tears as she moved onto old age and death..."
First Queen (and others) in The Two Noble Kinsmen
Directed by Matt Radford Davies and Doreen Bechtol
Mary Baldwin University, Shakespeare and Performance, April 2024
Photography by Miscellaneous Media
"The production started with literal discord, as the ensemble celebrated the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta, accompanied by marriage god Hymen and major-key guitar music. But then, from the moat of the theatre, three shrouded queens (Bolon, Parlett, and Raube-Wilson), arose, bringing in a minor descant that cut across the song of the celebrants and created disharmony. Raube-Wilson, as music director, used her underscoring beautifully to manage emotional response throughout the production[...]and this opening number used music to drive confrontation and incompleteness, demanding that those in power find solutions that would work for more than just themselves."
Clytemnestra in Iphigenia
Staged Reading, directed by Katy Shinas
Mary Baldwin University, Shakespeare and Performance, December 2023
Photography by Fawzia Istrabadi
Clytemnestra in Iphigenia
Photo by Fawzia Istrabadi
"In one of the most moving moments, Clytemnestra (Joan Raube-Wilson) was held back by the string that tied her to her own chair, unable to cross the full length of the playing space to reach Iphigenia (Jovita Roselene) in the moments before her execution...Raube-Wilson’s dignified, earnest Clytemnestra was entirely sympathetic, setting up the anticipated revenge of later stories as a rightful vengeance."
Courtezan, Balthazar, Musician in
The Comedy of Errors
Directed by Beth Harris
Ithaca Shakespeare Company, Summer 2023
Photography by Samantha Sloma
