Originally from the East Coast, NJ and NYC, I started acting at a young age, theater and storytelling live deep in my roots. I love creating characters from the ground up, movement and body awareness as well as music have been important keys to taking on a character. I love a good back story and improv work to shape the whole being.
I have studied a range of techniques, from the more muscular Laban, Grotowski, but really feeling the depth in the simplicity of repetition work in Meisner to stay connected.
I continue to challenge myself in weekly workshops with BGB Studio in LA and love collaboration.
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Moving to the West Coast was a big shift and after some time off to have kids, my boys are 14 and 16, I returned to acting and have been performing all over the Bay on the stage, online and film for the last 10 years.
I am Armenian from Turkey and Lebanon and Jewish from Galicia/Ukraine. I study Western Armenian (one of my native languages) in order to preserve our culture and heritage. They may have taken our land and our people but we live on in our language. ԲարԵ ՛ւ means hello!
The wonderful, amazing, inspiring teachers and coaches I have worked with in the Bay Area include Patrick Russell, Mia Tagano, Kari Prindl, Lauren English, Laura Wayth, Richard Seyd,
Frances Epsen-Devlin, Rebecca Castelli, and Meryl Shaw.
I have also worked with Faye Simpson at Lucid Body and Jim Calder, both from the NYU graduate program.
Currently working with a killer group of actors in our weekly professional workshop
hosted online by The BGB Studio in Los Angeles with the amazing Ashley Rideaux.
For paintings and more artwork, visit www.devildoll.com