Buff Huntley

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About me

Gender Female
Occupation Asking for this is bourgeois!
Location Metropolitan Washington, D.C., United States
Introduction Over-educated Anglophile, currently working as dramaturg for New Old Theater. I have a B.A. in Humanities from Georgetown University and Master's degrees in Research Studies and Victorian Literature from Oxford. I am an enthusiast of early theatre and have directed and/or produced a Jacobean masque, a baroque opera, a concert of music composed by women, and a canine melodrama.
Interests My Friends, Theater, History, Silent films, Literature, almost anything British
Favorite Movies Some Like It Hot, Seven Samurai, Jason and the Argonauts, anything with Lon Chaney, Bedazzled (the Cook and Moore version), The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vertigo, more as I think of them
Favorite Music Celtic Music, Early Music, anything sung by Cecilia Bartoli, Bluegrass and Country Gospel
Favorite Books Jane Eyre, Moby-Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tristram Shandy, The Life of Pi, anything by Anne Tyler, any Dalziel and Pascoe mystery by Reginald Hill, Mary Webb's Precious Bane, the Falco series by Lindsey Davis, David Copperfield, Plato's Early Dialogues, Smilla's Sense of Snow, Don Quixote, The Miss Zukas mysteries by Jo Dereske

If you could peer far enough into the night sky, you'd see a star in any direction you looked. When would you sleep?

When the star was Julia Roberts or Hugh Grant.