THEATRE (SELECT) NEW YORK: Serious Money (NY Times Critics Pick) Scilla PTP/NYC @ Atlantic Stage 2 dir. Cheryl Faraone The Fisher King (workshop) Woman 2 New York Theater Workshop dir. Paul Dobie Show People (workshop) Ivy Primary Stages dir. Michelle Bossy Citizen Ruth Cindy/Cheryl New York Fringe dir. Howard Shalwitz Lunch Bryn/Vanessa/Mrs. Parker NY Musical Theater Festival dir. Shirley Serotsky REGIONAL: As You Like It (Fall 2014) Audrey Shakespeare Theatre Co. dir. Michael Attenborough The Conference of the Birds Partridge and others Folger Shakespeare Theater dir. Aaron Posner Christmas Carol 1941 Hazel Arena Stage dir. Molly Smith Death of a Salesman Jenny/Letta Arena Stage dir. Timothy Bond A View From the Bridge Neighbor Arena Stage dir. Daniel Aukin The Underpants Louise Two River Theater dir Jackson Gay A Midsummer Night’s Dream Quince Two River Theater dir. Aaron Posner A Year with Frog and Toad Mouse/Young Frog/Bird Two River Theater dir. Jackson Gay Is He Dead? Cecile Olney Theatre Center dir. Halo Wines Anna Karenina Kitty Olney Theatre Center dir. Cheryl Faraone Blithe Spirit Edith Olney Theatre Center dir. John Going Willy Wonka (First National Tour) Veruca Salt John F. Kennedy Center dir. Graham Whitehead You Never Can Tell Dolly Washington Stage Guild dir. John MacDonald On the Rocks Aloysia Washington Stage Guild dir. John MacDonald Batboy: The Musical Shelley Studio Theatre Secondstage dir. Mike Chamberlain Headsman’s Holiday Lili Theater Alliance dir. Aaron Posner Boy Gets Girl Harriet Theater Alliance dir. Kirsten Kelly Life is a Dream (reading) Rosaura Shakespeare Theatre Co. dir. Gus Heagerty Pirandello’s Henry IV (reading) Frida Shakespeare Theatre Co. dir. Gus Heagerty Citizen Ruth (workshop) Cindy/Cheryl Woolly Mammoth dir. Howard Shalwitz FILM/COMMERICAL Ex-Girlfriends (w/Jennifer Carpenter) Ingrid Poe Films Yellowbrickroad Jill Points North Films/AMC Independent The Adjustment Bureau Student Universal Pictures

IMPROV Bandolero, NYC Long-form Group The Peoples Improv Theater dir. Matt Donnelly Comedy Sports, Washington, DC Short-form Group The Comedy Spot dir. Liz Demrey

TRAINING MFA Acting: Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University Acting: Ed Gero, Floyd King, Gary Logan, Rod Menzies Voice & Text: Ellen O’Brien Stage Combat: Brad Waller Mask/Clown: Dody DiSanto, Isabelle Anderson Movement: Roberta Stiehm Alexander Technique: Christopher Cherry BA Theatre & English: Middlebury College Acting: Carl Forsman Voice & Text: Beth McGuire Mask/Clown: Per Brahe, Giovanni Fusetti Voice Over: Ed Lewis

SPECIAL SKILLSMultiple Dialects, Puppetry, Light Gymnastics, Basic Ukulele. I do a great Judy Garland. SAFD Actor/Combatant: Unarmed, Rapier & Dagger, Rapier & Buckler, Smallsword, Broadsword, Quarterstaff, Single Sword (SAFD Recommended).

AWARDS2010 Helen Hayes Award Nomination, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical2005 Individual Artist Fellowship, Washington, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

TARA GIORDANOtgiordano@gwu.edu

HEIGHT: 5’5”WEIGHT: 165lbs

HAIR: BrownEYES: Green

AEA / SAG (e)

TARA GIORDANO