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Grammy Nominated Actress and Performer Alexandra Silber will be playing Dina in Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, opposite Shuler Hensley at Symphony Space and Tanglewood in the spring in 2018.
Recently, Alexandra completed a run on Broadway as Tzeitel in the Tony-nominated revival of Fiddler of the Roof, co-starring alongside 6-time Tony Nominee Danny Burstein as Tevye.
Following the run of Fiddler, Alexandra's debut novel "After Anatevka": a novel based on the hit musical, (chronicling what happens to the characters of Hodel and Perchik), and her memoir White Hot Grief Parade (a poignant-comic memoir about losing her father to cancer when she was 18), were both published by Pegasus Books.
She attended Interlochen Center for the Arts and continued her training at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, graduating with a degree in Acting. She graduated just days before her professional and West End debut as Laura Fairlie in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White at the age of 21.
Alexandra's British stage work includes Hodel in the Sheffield Crucible's 2007 production of Fiddler on the Roof, and it's subsequent West End transfer, and Julie Jordan in Carousel at The Savoy Theatre in London's West End (for which she received critical acclaim, and received a TMA Award for Best Performance in a Musical). She also appeared at the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall in as Lilli Vanessi/Kate in Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate" with the John Wilson Orchestra to extensive critical acclaim.
Alexandra made her American acting debut in a revival of her portrayal of Julie Jordan for Reprise Theater Company in Los Angeles, and garnered an Ovation-nomination.
She made her New York theater debut portraying The Young Wife in the Transport Group's Revival of Michael John LaChiusa's Hello Again (Drama League Award), and later that year played-opposite Tony-Award winner Tyne Daly in Terrence McNally's Master Class at the Kennedy Center, and made her Broadway debut in the same production (garnering a nod from Backstage for one of the great theater performances of 2011). She played Sara Jane in the highly-acclaimed Arlington-a new one woman, tour-de-force musical at the Vineyard Theater (Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Best Solo Performance); the full recording of which is available from Broadway Records.
On screen she appeared in Stephen King's 1408 starring John Cusack, and has appeared as a Guest Stars on Elementary, The Mysteries of Laura and all three branches of the Law & Order series (SVU, Criminal Intent and the original).
On international concert stages, Alexandra has offered multiple solo cabarets in cities across the globe, and was especially honored to be a part of Barbara Cook's Spotlight Series at The Kennedy Center.
Alexandra made her Carnegie Hall debut singing the role of Nina in a concert performance of Song Of Norway with the Collegiate Chorale and American Symphony Orchestra. Other concert favorite include Pulitzer-Prize-winning David Del Tredici's World Premiere of "Dum Dee Tweedle" with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Lippa's oratorio "I Am Harvey Milk" at Disney Hall in Los Angeles with the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, and Amalia Balash in She Loves Me with The Orchestra of St. Luke's at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts opposite Santino Fontana.
Alexandra was nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award for her portrayal of Maria (opposite Cheyenne Jackson as Tony) with the San Francisco Symphony. in a concert presentation of West Side Story, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. This historic, first-ever concert presentation was accompanied by the first-ever full symphonic recording. She also performed on the 57th Grammy Award broadcast with Cheyenne Jackson.
As a playwright, she has written modern language adaptations of three classic Greek tragedies through a commission by the Dutch Kills Theater. The first work she adapted, Sophocles' Antigone, premiered at the National Opera Center in New York City with a cast that included John Cullum, Peter Scolari, Alexandra Socha, Jason Tam, and Silber. The second work she penned, a modern English translation of Euripides' tragedy The Trojan Women, was given its first fully staged performance at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York in June, 2015.
Alexandra is also an avid blogger and educator, and when she is not working, enjoys quoting the film "What About Bob?" and ‘fan-girling' over Angela Lansbury - but not necessarily in that order. She also has a fondness for crime drama, watermelon, and red shoes.
Blair Tindall is a Grammy-nominated musician, journalist, and author of "Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music." The Golden Globe winning series, which Blair is a consultant for, was created by Jason Schwartzman and stars Malcolm McDowell, Bernadette Peters, Lola Kirke, Gael Garcia Bernal and violinist Joshua Bell.
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Danny Deraney has been a leading Los Angeles-based Public Relations Executive for the past decade. Named by the The New York Observer as one of the top celebrity crisis communications experts, Danny has garnered results and provided guidance to clients while helping them meet their strategic and business objectives. Since 2002, he has managed campaigns and media relations activities with his team whether it be product launches, news events or crisis communications with some of the world's biggest companies and beloved personalities. During that time, campaigns he has worked on or led have garnered over a billion in measured audience reach.
He has worked on a variety of campaigns for several brands and celebrities. They include Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Madonna, Fergie, The Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons, Toys "R" Us Expedia, Microsoft and Macy's. PR agencies that routinely rely on Danny include Edelman, Porter Novelli, Rogers and Cowan, Golin Harris, Miller PR, Ruder Finn and Sunshine Sachs. Danny has also been called upon from various organizations and clientele for crisis communication campaigns, including for Universal, Casey Kasem, Paris Hilton and Dan Marino.His analysis and op-ed's have been featured in news outlets such as Variety, Associated Press, People Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, CNN, FOX News, CBS News and The Wrap.
Prior to creating Deraney Public Relations, Danny served as Manager of Media and Public Relations at On the Scene Productions in Los Angeles, supervising all account activity and PR strategies. During his seven-year stint at OTSP, Danny secured media placements for clients in the entertainment, publishing, consumer and healthcare industries, reaching over 700 million viewers across various campaigns. He developed extensive relationships with media professionals in television and radio and with editorial contacts in the digital, new media and online arena.
A graduate of San Francisco State University, Danny Deraney earned his BA in Organizational Communication and began his career as a sports intern at KPIX-CBS in San Francisco. Through his hard work, Danny landed the coveted position of field producer and Assignment Editor. In this capacity Danny was responsible for orchestrating and conducting interviews and organizing field assignments for live broadcasts including coverage of San Francisco's famous road race Bay to Breakers, various election coverage, San Jose Sharks Hockey games and live coverage of historic Oakland and San Francisco athletic franchises including the San Francisco 49ers, Giants and the Oakland A's.
Dylan Brody is one America's leading humorists and story tellers.
Fans that include comedic legends such as Carl Reiner, Robin Williams, Roseanne Barr and Paul Krassner have witnessed Dylan's ever-expanding repertoire of witty and profound tales of his journey through life that are unique, yet utterly recognizable to everyone.
He currently writes and performs regularly for the David Feldman show on KPFK(Pacifica Radio) in Los Angeles., The Drive with Steve Jaxon on KSRO (Sonoma County) and is a regular contributor to John Rabe's OFF RAMP on KPCC, NPR's Pasadena affiliate. His material runs on XM/Sirius Satellite Radio's comedy channels, Pandora and he is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. He has written for dozens of comedians, including Jay Leno, who has used Brody's work in his monologues on NBC's The Tonight Show.
In 2005, Dylan won the Stanley Drama award for playwriting. He is a thrice-published author of fiction for the Young Adult market with one of his books, A Tale of a Hero and The Song of Her Sword finding a place in the curriculum at several public schools in the U.S., earning him a yearly influx of poorly written fan letters and e-mails to which Mr. Brody diligently replies.
He has appeared on A&E's Comedy on the Road, FOX TV's Comedy Express, and Showtime's The Green Room with Paul Provenza. In 2010, Dylan appeared in the George Carlin Tribute at the New York Public Library, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, featuring Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, Ben Stiller, Kevin Smith, Louis C.K., and publisher Lewis Lapham, among others.
As an actor, Erik appears regularly on the ABC television series For Life (2020) as ADA Dez O'Reilly opposite Nicholas Pinnock. Jensen played conspiracy theorist Frank Cody in several seasons of Sam Esmail's Mr. Robot (2015) and appeared as Dr. Stephen Edwards in Season Five of The Walking Dead (2010). He acted opposite Catherine Keener in the Amazon series Modern Love (2019) and in David Fincher's Mindhunter (2017) (Netflix). Memorable guest appearances include roles on 30 Rock (2006), The Americans (2013), The Blacklist (2013), all three Law and Order franchises, and CSI. Erik's gained 26 pounds for his critically praised performance in The Bronx Is Burning (2007) (2007), as legendary New York Yankee, Thurman Munson, opposite John Turturro and Daniel Sunjata.
Notable stage roles include his 2022 Broadway debut The Collaboration, opposite Paul Bettany and Jermey Pope. His "Breathtaking" (Billboard) performance as gonzo rock journalist Lester Bangs in the solo-play "How To Be A Rock Critic" at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and at The Public Theater in New York. Jensen co-wrote "How To Be A Rock Critic" and was directed by his wife and frequent collaborator Jessica Blank. Other stage appearances include Tracey Scott Wilson's "The Good Negro" at The Public Theater directed by Liesl Tommy, and the Pulitzer Prize winning production of Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced" at Lincoln Center. Early theater appearances include plays by Terrence McNally (Manhattan Theater Club) and Arthur Kopit (MTC).
In addition to his work as a performer, Erik is a playwright and screenwriter. He was named by The New Yorker as "among the foremost practitioners of documentary theater in the U.S." With his wife Jessica Blank, he is author of the multi-award-winning, critically-acclaimed play, "The Exonerated", which ran Off-Broadway in New York City for nearly two years and starred Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Aidan Quinn, and Delroy Lindo.
On the heels of "The Exonerated" Jensen and Blank created the documentary play "Aftermath," a NY Times Critic's Pick, based on their interviews with Iraqi civilian refugees in Jordan, which ran Off-Broadway to sold out houses at New York Theater Workshop and toured Europe extensively. Their third play, "How To Be A Rock Critic" (based on the writing of Lester Bangs), received rave reviews from Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, The New Yorker, and from Bangs' contemporaries Greil Marcus and Jim Derogatis. It played sold out runs at the Kirk Douglas, South Coast Rep, ArtsEmerson, Steppenwolf, and The Public Theater with Jensen as Lester Bangs and wife Jessica Blank directing. As television writers, Jensen and Blank have collaborated with EPs including Tom Fontana (Oz (1997), City on a Hill (2019)), Ed Burns (The Wire (2002), Generation Kill (2008)), and David Simon. Jensen and Blank wrote and adapted the pilot "The Negotiator" for Gaumont TV and have developed for television with Fox TV Studios, 20th Century TV, Avenue Pictures, Sunswept Entertainment, Virgin Produced, and Radical Media.
Their documentary play, "Coal Country" (a New York Times Critics' Pick), about the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, had a critically lauded World Premiere at The Public Theater, directed by Jessica Blank, with original music written and performed by three-time Grammy winning musician Steve Earle. The play is a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, and was nominated for the Drama Desk award for Outstanding Director (Jessica Blank) and Outstanding Music in a Play (Steve Earle). When the run was cut short by COVID-19, Jensen/Blank pivoted and wrote "The Line," a new play created and crafted from first-hand interviews with NYC medical first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Starring Santino Fontana, Arjun Gupta, John Ortiz, Alison Pill, Nicholas Pinnock, Jamey Sheridan, and Lorraine Toussaint,
Jensen and Blank adapted and co-directed the feature film Almost Home (2018) based on Blank's novel of the same title. It was released by Vertical Entertainment in 2019. Their second feature, How to be a Rock Critic (based on their play), is in development with Likely Story.
Award winning actress Illeana Douglas is a hit with critics and moviegoers alike. Current films include She's Funny That Way (2015) directed by Peter Bogdanovitch, Pearly Gates (2015) All Stars (2014) Sisters (2014) with Barbara Hershey, and Max Rose (2013) with Jerry Lewis. It's Dark Here (2013), Chez Upshaw with Kevin Pollak (2012), for which Douglas won the LA IFS Best Actress Award, The Green (2012) for which Douglas won best supporting actress for her role at the San Diego Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Illeana Douglas first came to prominence as Matt Dillon's suspicious sister in Gus Van Sant's To Die For (1995), for which she was a New York Film Critics award nominee. She has had memorable performances in Goodfellas (1991) Cape Fear (1993) Alive (1993), Search and Destroy (1995) Grief (1995) Grace of My Heart (1996) Picture Perfect (1997) Message in a Bottle (1999) Happy, Texas (1999) Stir of Echoes (1999) The Next Best Thing (2000) Ghost World (2001) Dummy (2003) Factory Girl (2006) Pittsburgh (2006) Some television movies include Rough Riders (1998) Bella Mafia (1999) Lansky (2000) Point of Origin (2001) and Weapons of Mass Distraction (1998)
Illeana plays Nancy alongside Greg Poehler, Patrick Duffy and Lena Olin on NBC's Welcome to Sweden. (2014-2015) A Swedish/American comedy shot in Sweden and produced by Amy Poehler, and has a recurring role on Chasing Life for the Disney Channel. She recently costarred with George Lopez in his untitled pilot Lopez for TV Land. She had a recurring role on Entourage, and Six Feet Under, which earned her an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Angela. She also starred as Wendy Ward in the critically acclaimed series Action (1999-2000) Additionally, she's been featured in recurring and guest-star roles on Maron, Grey's Anatomy, Drop Dead Diva, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order, Ugly Betty, The Drew Carey Show, Frazier, Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show, Shark, and many more.
Illeana's pioneering branded web series for IKEA was Easy To Assemble. has been downloaded over 40 million times and has been called, "The most successful branded show of all time" by Ad-Week. Easy to Assemble features a cornucopia of stars including Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Pollak, Jane Lynch, Cheri Oteri, Patricia Heaton, Tim Meadows, Kate Micucci, Tom Arnold, Ed Begley,Fred Willard, Roger Bart, Justine Bateman and spawned a spin-off Sparhusen which starred Keanu Reeves. Easy To Assemble has won six Webby Awards (2010-2013) for Best Performance, Best Writing, and Best Branded Series. Sparhusen won a Webby Award for Best Short Comedy. Easy to Assemble won two Streamy Awards for Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series and Best Product Integration, The 2010 BANFF Outstanding Online Performance Award, the 2010 NAPTE Digital Luminary Award and the Innovator Award at the 2010 Independent Television Festival.
Illeana is a producer and costars in the web-series The Skinny (2015) for Jill Sollaway's online network Wifey.TV,
Illeana began her career as a stand up comedian and sketch performer at Stand Up New York and The Manhattan Punchline. While working for a New York film publicist, Douglas was asked to dub screams and provide additional dialogue for Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). This led to a long association with Scorsese, acting in New York Stories (1989), Goodfellas (1990) and Cape Fear (1991) and developing and co-producing for Cappa Productions Search and Destroy (1995) and Grace of My Heart (1996) While working for Martin Scorsese's company Cappa she developed Bedlam, and The Lost Army. With his encouragement she also began writing and directing. Her first effort, The Perfect Woman (1993), won Best Short at Aspen Shorts Fest, was featured as the closing night selection at The New York Film Festival, and was a nominee for a Cable Ace Award. It was later sold to Miramax. Everybody Just Stay Calm (1994), was a documentary made for the newly formed Independent Film Channel representing the first programming on the network. Everybody Just Stay Calm was about the comedic trials of independent filmmaking and featured interviews with Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, David O.Russel, Kevin Smith, and many others. Boy Crazy, Girl Crazier (1996) and the television pilot Confessions of a Movie Lover was also made for Bravo and IFC. She wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the short films Devil Talk, Supermarket, and Illeanarama, which have played, in numerous festivals and on the Sundance Channel. Supermarket was nominated for a regional Emmy and later developed into Illeanarama(2004-2005) for the Oxygen Network. She was executive producer on the film Life Without Dick (2002) starring Sarah Jessica Parker. She also developed and produced and hosted Celebrity Garage Sale (2009) with Tom Arnold for A&E. She wrote and produced and starred in the branded short Soul mates (2011) for Lifetime Online. She Co-produced in the documentary Kingdom Come (2013) and is a producer on the film Chez Upshaw (2012 She developed and hosted a pilot for Turner Classic Movies called Second Looks (2014) based on their Friday Night Spotlight series on TCM. She is an on camera host, writer and interviewer for Turner Classic Movies having interviewed luminaries such as Jerry Lewis, Richard Dreyfuss, Agnes Varda, Gena Rowlands, Eva Marie Saint. Her first book which is a love letter to the movies is called I Blame Dennis Hopper: Stories of a life inside and outside the movies. Published by Flatiron books it is available for pre order on Amazon and out Nov 3rd.
Illeana created and stars in The Living Room Show, an ongoing live variety show featuring comedy, music, and magic, in a complete stranger's living room.
Tony® Award-winner and five-time Tony® Award nominee Laura Benanti is a celebrated stage and screen actress. Benanti currently can be seen as Jane in Amy Schumer's Life & Beth.
Recently, Laura starred in HBO Max's Gossip Girl (2021) reboot and in Netflix's Worth (2020) starring opposite Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci and Amy Ryan, for which Deadline hailing her performance as "awards-worthy."
Benanti reprised her role in the final season of the hit TV series Younger (2015) and starred opposite Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish in the comedy film Here Today (2021). She appeared in Lin-Manuel Miranda's awards-favorite, tick, tick… BOOM! (2021), the adaptation of the autobiographical Off-Broadway show written by Jonathan Larson (Rent).
Benanti's other credits include appearing as a guest star on the Showtime series Cinema Toast (2021) created by Jeff Baena and produced by the Duplass Brothers as well as the hit variety show ZIWE (2021) featuring comedian Ziwe Fumudoh. Additionally, Benanti created and executive produced the HBO Max special, Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020 (2020), co-authored a children's board book M is for MAMA (and also Merlot): A Modern Mom's ABC's, co-written with Metropolitan Opera Star Kate Mangiameli and released a self-titled studio album for Sony Music Masterworks. The album is comprised of contemporary covers, jazz influenced torch songs and comedic takes on beloved favorites.
In 2017, Laura joined the cast of the Samantha Bee and Jason Jones TBS comedy, The Detour. Additional TV credits include Supergirl, Nashville, guest-starring as songbird Sadie Stone; The Good Wife; and Showtime's Nurse Jackie.
In 2016, Laura completed her Tony nominated role (and 5 th nomination) as Amalia Balash in the hit Broadway Musical, She Loves Me. Laura also received Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Drama Desk Award nominations for this role.
In addition to television work and her critically acclaimed performance as Elsa Schrader in NBC's The Sound of Music LIVE, Ms. Benanti is a highly celebrated, stage actress who took Broadway by storm at the age of 18.
She received a Drama Desk award, Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony Award Nomination for her starring role in the Broadway production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown for Lincoln Center where she also starred in the Broadway production of Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play. Ms. Benanti earned the 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award for her revelatory portrayal of Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy opposite Patti LuPone and directed by Arthur Laurents. Her other Broadway roles include The Wedding Singer, Nine, starring Antonio Banderas, her Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated performance of Cinderella in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods and her sultry Tony nominated turn in Swing! Ms. Benanti made her Broadway debut as Maria in The Sound of Music opposite Richard Chamberlain.
Other distinguished theater performances include the Public Theater's production of Christopher Durang's Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them, Perdita in The Winter's Tale at the Williamstown Theatre Festival opposite Kate Burton, Anne in A Little Night Music at the L.A. Opera opposite Victor Garber, Eileen in Wonderful Town opposite Donna Murphy and most recently her portrayal of Rosabella in the Most Happy Fella, both for City Center Encores! Ms. Benanti completed a week-long engagement at the popular New York cabaret club, 54 Below, for which The New York Times hailed her as a "supremely confident" performer whose "bright, full soprano, with its semioperatic heft, can go almost anywhere." In September 2013, she released her debut album, "In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention: Live at 54 BELOW" on Broadway Records to ecstatic reviews.
Laura currently performs her concerts in venues around the country and even recently performed for the President and First Lady of the United States at both the Fords Gala and the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington DC.
In 2014, she joined the cast of ABC's hit series "Nashville" guest-starring as songbird Sadie Stone. Laura also appeared in recurring roles on CBS's "The Good Wife" and HBO's "Nurse Jackie."
Laura's past television credits include a starring role in the NBC series "The Playboy Club" and "Go On" opposite Matthew Perry. She also starred in the F/X original series "Starved". Ms. Benanti recurred on "Law and Order: SVU," "Royal Pains," and "Eli Stone." and had appearances on "The Big C" and "Elementary."
Radio, Lizz Winstead has helped changed the very landscape of how people get their news.
Known as one of the top political satirists in America, Winstead has been recognized by all
Patricia Summersett is an actress, best known for voicing Princess Zelda in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.
Patricia (she/her) is an American Canadian actor, voice artist, writer and singer. She was raised in rural Upper Michigan and now divides her time between Montreal and Los Angeles.
Screen: Patricia appears as Angela Blake in Amazon Prime's Three Pines series starring Alfred Molina and Elle Maija Tailfeathers, NBC's Transplant S.2, the Darren Aronofsky film Mother!, CBC's Bellevue starring Anna Paquin, CTV's The Disappearance with Peter Coyote, Go90's Lost Generation with Katie Findlay and scored by Tony-winning Duncan Sheik and NBC's The Bold Type on Free Form. She also played in indie features The Saver by Wiebke Von Carolsfeld, Maz and The Great Traveler by festival-winning filmmaker Federico Hidalgo and the festival award-winning Item 7 short film Fareed by Rudy Barichello. Notable past roles include recurring characters in Ron Moore's Helix s2 as well as 19-2 (Bravo/CTV). She was also the official "Onset Smurf" voice and puppeteer representing Smurfette, Vexy and Clumsy for the making of Sony's Smurfs 2.
Video Games: Patricia was nominated for "Outstanding video game performance" by the Montreal Actra Awards for her work as the first ever official English voice of Princess Zelda in Nintendo's thirty-year Legend of Zelda franchise. Nintendo's Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is "…now one of the best reviewed games in history" Forbes. She also reprised the role of Zelda in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. Patricia has voiced many games from indie to AAA and provided the voice and full performance capture for two assassins in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed series (Galina in AC: Syndicate and Hope Jensen in AC: Rogue as well as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege as Ash. She reprised Ash for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Extraction as well as the popular Gacha game Arknights. Other notable roles: full PCAP of Paula Madera in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint alongside Rodney Mullen and Jon Bernthal for Ubisoft and voices in: Star Wars: Squadrons (Tie Fighter), Wastelands 3 (Sugar Plum Mary), For Honor (Knight Warden and Astrea "Warmommy"), Noble Succubus Bianca in Guardian Tales for Kakao, Suikoden Tierkreis (Diadora/Servillah) for Konami and the voice of Nyah in the upcoming indie game Elements by Wreck It / Apogee Ent.
Stage: Patricia has performed in theaters across Canada, the US and the UK. She has been nominated for three META/MECCA (Montreal English Theatre/Critics Circle Awards) for "Best Lead Actress" playing Rosalind in As You Like it and Jacqueline in Trench Patterns (a captain with PTSD). She has also been featured in Equus, Pinter plays and as the title role in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. She was last seen in the Toronto's 2016 Next Stage Festival, performing the Fringe hit Blood Wild by Paul Van Dyck.
Education: She holds a Masters of Classical Acting from The Royal Central School (RCSSD) in London and a BFA in Theatre Performance from Concordia in Montreal. She has also studied acting at MXAT (Moscow, RU) and NTC (Denver, Co). Before attending drama school, she trained for years as a competitive ice dancer, and held the title of Quebec Sectional Champion before diving headlong into theatre.
Personal: Patricia grew up in a small village in Upper Michigan, a place that remains a constant source of inspiration for her writing and music, due to it's distinct culture and proximity to lake Superior. In addition to her acting career, she is a singer, soon to release a second full length album May 16th 2023 Summersettband.com.
Rosanna Lisa Arquette was born in New York City to a show business family. She was the first-born child of five in the third generation of the Arquette acting clan. Her grandfather Cliff Arquette played "Charley Weaver" on "The Jack Paar Show" and was a regular on the original "Hollywood Squares." Her father, character actor Lewis Arquette, was well known as "J.D. Pickett" on "The Waltons." Her siblings Patricia Arquette, David Arquette, Alexis Arquette and Richmond Arquette all followed her into the family tradition as accomplished working actors.
Rosanna began acting as a child while growing up in a bohemian atmosphere of gypsy-like travel and communes. Her mother Mardi was a poet, political activist and therapist who deeply influenced Rosanna's compassionate world-view.
Rosanna started working professionally as a teenager and has never stopped. Throughout her career she has worked with some of Hollywood and Independent Cinema's most important and influential directors including, Blake Edwards (S.O.B.), John Sayles (Baby It's You), Lawrence Kasden (Silverado), Martin Scorsese (After Hours, New York Stories), Luc Besson (The Big Blue), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), David Cronenberg (Crash), Vincent Gallo (Buffalo 66) and Alison Anders (Sugar Town). She has appeared in over 70 films, which have earned over $450 million in domestic box office sales.
Rosanna won the British Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her star-making performance opposite Madonna in Susan Seidleman's 1985 hit, "Desperately Seeking Susan."
She was nominated for an Emmy for her strong performance in the television adaptation of Norman Mailer's, "The Executioner's Song" opposite Tommy Lee Jones. Rosanna also starred in the acclaimed TV movie adaptations of "Song of the Morning Star" and "Johnny Belinda."
Rosanna Arquette is a busy actress and filmmaker whose passion for her work is matched only by her passion for her daughter Zoe Bleu Sidel, her family and her work as a breast cancer awareness advocate.