Tawny Sorensen
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Plaza-7 Talent Agency
Francesca Francois-Grimaldi
- 21 - 30 yrs old
- 5' 5"
- 115 lbs
- Blue
- Blond
- White/Caucasian
AEA Eligible, AFTRA, SAG
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Born, raised, and still living in New York, her love for performance developed by the age of two when she began her dance training. At the age of 11, she began acting in her middle school and local community theatre, and continued dancing and acting throughout high school. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with her Bachelor of the Arts degree in Theatre/ Performance from Fordham University at Lincoln Centre and received her Master of the Fine Arts in acting from the Actors Studio Drama School/ New School for Drama, both schools located in New York City.
Her studies at Fordham were based primarily on the techniques of Stanislavski and Grotowski, while her graduate studies focused on the Method and the techniques of Strasberg. Throughout her extensive training, she has had the privilege to study with such teachers as Obie Award-winning director and a pioneer of biographical theater Larry Sacharow, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor Ron Leibman, Emmy-winning director Gene Lasko, as well as many other influential actors and directors. She received additional training in Shakespeare and Acting for Film at the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York.
Some memorable stage roles for her include Melissa in Ensler’s Necessary Targets, Ophelia in Hamlet, the Model in O’Hare’s The Blue Room, Strindberg’s Miss Julie, and Toropetskaya in Reddin’s Black Snow. She continues to be a New York based actor appearing on stage, as well as in film and television.
Tawny directed her first play Next by Amy Schulz in 2008. The production was produced by the NSD Playwrights at the American Theatre for Actors in New York.
As a playwright, her works include I’d Do Anything, All of the Elements, Afterthoughts, Chewed Up, D & D Forever, and Dinner Conversations. Manhattan Repertory Theatre produced All of the Elements in their Summerfest 2009.
"The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellant, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. ... We want to be masters of the future only for the power to change the past." ~ Milan Kundera
Her studies at Fordham were based primarily on the techniques of Stanislavski and Grotowski, while her graduate studies focused on the Method and the techniques of Strasberg. Throughout her extensive training, she has had the privilege to study with such teachers as Obie Award-winning director and a pioneer of biographical theater Larry Sacharow, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor Ron Leibman, Emmy-winning director Gene Lasko, as well as many other influential actors and directors. She received additional training in Shakespeare and Acting for Film at the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York.
Some memorable stage roles for her include Melissa in Ensler’s Necessary Targets, Ophelia in Hamlet, the Model in O’Hare’s The Blue Room, Strindberg’s Miss Julie, and Toropetskaya in Reddin’s Black Snow. She continues to be a New York based actor appearing on stage, as well as in film and television.
Tawny directed her first play Next by Amy Schulz in 2008. The production was produced by the NSD Playwrights at the American Theatre for Actors in New York.
As a playwright, her works include I’d Do Anything, All of the Elements, Afterthoughts, Chewed Up, D & D Forever, and Dinner Conversations. Manhattan Repertory Theatre produced All of the Elements in their Summerfest 2009.
"The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellant, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. ... We want to be masters of the future only for the power to change the past." ~ Milan Kundera
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