TAMPA BAY MODELING - Key Persons


C. A. Passinault

Job Titles:
  • Director

Chris Capri

Job Titles:
  • Staff Writer, Contributing Model Photographer, and Security
Chris Capri is a professional commercial model and an independent actor from Tampa. He is a veteran of theater productions, and you've probably seen him in a television commercial at one time or another. Chris is an advanced model photographer, and he does model portofolios from time to time. Altough he has a steady girlfriend, rumor has it that one of the girls on our staff has a thing for him. I'm just not saying who it is.

Danielle Cooper

Job Titles:
  • Editor
  • Senior Writer
This is who I am, sitting in my condo in Clearwater Beach writing this right now. We came up with the Tampa Bay Modeling idea right here, not twenty feet from my desk. Tampa Bay Modeling is run right here from my condo, where I can oversee and update the web site with a sunset view of the Gulf of Mexico and the cool breeze blowing through my white curtains.

Jessica Moore

Job Titles:
  • Staff Writer and Public Relations
Jessica is a 19 year old swimsuit model from Brandon, Florida who has been doing more commercial work lately. Petite and feisty, she is a serious writer and a poet as well as a great communicator in front of the camera. Lately, Jessica has been increasingly annoyed with certain model photographers who try to exploit models and the model scams in Tampa Bay, and has started to fight back. Jessica handles our mail when she has the time from her busy career.

Laura Perez

Job Titles:
  • Forum Moderator
Laura is amazing. She knows four languages, and was educated with the help of well off relatives when she came to the United States from Cuba when she was a child. Now, at 21, this top fashion model commutes between her home in South Tampa and model work in New York and in Europe. Since she's always traveling, and loves communicating, Laura oversee's our web forums, which she can monitor from wherever in the world she may happen to be from any Internet Cafe or other connection.

Nancy Slater

Job Titles:
  • Ambassador and Founding Model
Nancy is my best friend, and at 19 years old, she's been a model for ten years! Nancy is an arts major over at the University of South Florida, and like myself she is putting herself through school by working as a freelance model. Nancy also has connections with over six Tampa Bay agencies, and books work from them on a regular basis. As a Tampa native, Nancy is very well connected and knows the good and bad people in the Tampa Bay modeling industry very well. With this knowledge, she avoids the bad people and networks with the good ones.

Sidney Thornton

Job Titles:
  • Legal Secretary
  • Staff Writer
The oldest model of our group at 28, Sidney is also the most experienced. A seasoned international fashion model, Sidney is focusing on booking commercial and editorial work here in Florida now. Sidney is a licensed paralegal who studied entertainment law, and hangs out with several attorneys in the Tampa Bay area. Sidney lives with her fiance in Carollwood, which is in North Tampa, and is a self described entertainment junky who is a hard core videogamer. Sidney is preparing for an acting career at the moment, and uses resources such as Independent Acting to market herself as an actress.

Talesha Larsen

Job Titles:
  • Staff Artist and Designer
Fresh faced and 18, this stunning 6 foot tall runway model is a self described art geek who loves to dress casual when she's not working it. Talesha is the shy girl in the corner who would rather stay by herself and design things on her PDA than talk to anyone. Recently, Talesha started dating a friend from the University Of Tampa, and we found her doodling on a napkin one night when they were out on a dinner date. Half Latin and half Russian, Talesha is very much in touch with both cultures, as is evident by the Miami 80's art direction of the Tampa Bay Modeling web site!