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ANGELA DEZEN
SAG
 angela@angeladezen.com

5'3"
105 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair:  Strawberry Blonde / Red / Sometimes Auburn

FILM

Wish You Were (Here) / Supporting / Indie **Cannes Short Film Corner Official Selection

Green Oil / Lead / Danger Beach Entertainment - 48 Go Green, 2011

Collapse / Supporting / IFPS and Storybench 

Aaseamah's Journey / Supporting / Mississippi Films

Groundhog Day / Supporting / Columbia Pictures

How Do You Spell Love? / Supporting / 48 Hour Film Project

Killing Calhoun / Lead /48 Hour Film Project - ***WINNER: BEST ACTRESS***

Drained / Lead / National Film Challenge

Behind The Mask / Lead / AFI

The Blues / Lead / USC

Short on Time / Supporting / AFI 

(500) Days of Summer / Featured / Fox Searchlight

Golden Days (Doc) / Self / Independent

TELEVISION

My Campus Life (Pilot) / Co-Star / FOX via Big Ten Network

Trigger (Webisodes) / Recurring / Independent

COMMERCIALS / VOICE-OVERS

Conflicts available upon request

REGIONAL and UNIVERSITY THEATRE

Recent Leading Roles Include:

"The Patron Saint of Monsters" (Staged Reading) / Wilgefortis / Iowa Playwrights'
                                                                                             Workshop - Iowa New Play Festival

"The Madwoman of Chaillot" / MME Constance / University of Iowa -  Mainstage

"How Catherine D____ Got Her Expression" / Catherine / E.C. Mabie Theatre

"Notes On Drowning" / Emma / University of Iowa Theatres

"Truth and Truth" / Mother / David Thayer Theatre - Iowa New Play Festival

"Worth In Numbers" / "Walking The Wire" Monologue Festival / Riverside Theatre 

"Placing Out" / #1 / ICPL Theatre in association with Iowa Playwrights' Workshop

TRAINING

Sitcom Technique / TVI (LA) / Greg Orson, Chris Gehrt

BA in Theatre Arts - University of Iowa / Completed: May, 2010

Acting / University of Iowa / Meredith Alexander, Eric Forsythe

Improvisation / The Second City (Chicago) /Ross Bryant, Dana Quercioli

On Camera Technique / University of Iowa / John Cameron

Voice and Dialect / University of Iowa / Judy Leigh-Johnson

Bartenieff, Laban, Theatre Movement Studies / University of Iowa / Rachelle Tsachor,
                                                                                                                        Ralph Hall, Paul Kalina

Acting / Lee Strasberg Institute (Los Angeles) / Marc Marno, Hedy Sontag

New Faces Showcase / Gray Studios (Los Angeles) / Shanelle Workman

Audition Technique / Gray Studios / David Barry Gray

Commercial Technique / Hey, I Saw Your Commercial (Los Angeles)/ Mike Pointer

On Camera Technique / Act One Studios (Chicago) / Dan Flannery

Acting, Scene Study / Act One Studios / Dan Taube, Gretchen Soenstrom

Vocal Performance / Paul Rausch, Shirley Owens, Faculty of Southern IL University

Dance / Ballet (10 years), Jazz, Tap / Barbara Klein School of Dance

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Conversational Japanese

SPECIAL SKILLS

Classically trained vocalist (alto/mezzo soprano), burping on cue, touching tongue to nose, backing vocals for the rock band The Damnwells (Epic/Zoe/Rounder Records) and several others at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood, ballet (10 years a long time ago), time step, racquetball, hiking, jogging, making up my own yoga moves, extensive knowledge of midcentury modern  furniture and plastic surgery although I've never had either.  Dialects: Midwestern, New York, Southern, bad British accent. Valid passport.

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