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RESUME

Selected Theatre Roles

NY
Trinity - Ellen Shiner: Abingdon Theatre Stage II, Caitlin McEwan, dir.
Ah, My Dear Anderson - Ensemble: Urban Stages, Aleksey Burago, dir.
Don Carlos -- Olivarez: Prospect Theater Co., David Kennedy, dir.
The Hamlet Plays - Gertrude:   Milk Can Theater Co., Kate Marks, dir.
1,001 New York Nights -- Grace: Kraine Theater / Istanbul Festival, Handan Ozbilgin, dir.
Maggie and Drey - Maggie: 47 St. Theater, CA tour , Christie Ryan, dir.
Love & Literature -- Varya/Sonya: Columbia U., Dyana Kimball, dir., Anne Bogart, advisor
 
Regional
Cyrano de Bergerac -- Roxanne: Texas Shakespeare Festival, Tom Whitaker, dir.
A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Titania, Hippolyta: TX Shakespeare Fest, Stephen Terrel, dir.
The Miracle Worker -- Kate Keller: TX Shakespeare Fest, Beijing, China, Raymond Caldwell, dir.
Romeo and Juliet - Lady Capulet:   Summer Theater of New Canaan, CT, Allegra Libonati, dir.

The Lion in Winter - Eleanor: Main Street Theatre, Quakertown, PA
Our Town - Rebecca Gibbs: Old Globe Theater, San Diego, CA, Edward Payson Call, dir.
Three Sisters - Masha: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Richard III - Margaret, Clarence: Yale University
The Winter's Tale - Camillo: Yale University
Phaedra - Aricia: Yale University
The Prince of Homburg - Lady Bork: Yale School of Drama, David Kennedy, dir.
My Fair Lady - Eliza Doolittle: Haifa English Theater, Israel
 
Film/TV
One Life to Live -- Jillian Masters, U/5
The Prince -- Featured waitress, WB-TV
The Vikings - Amanda Viking: Two Kings Productions
Track -- Vivian: NYU Student film

Education and Training
Yale University, BA in Theater Studies, magna cum laude
James Luse, Deb Margolin, Toni Dorfman, Murray Biggs

Technique (Meisner):   Graduate of the 2-year professional acting training program, Maggie Flanigan Studio, NYC www.maggieflaniganstudio.com
Movement (Williamson technique): Nathan Flowers, Danielle Liccardo
Scene study: Austin Pendleton, HB Studio
Advanced Scene Study for Film: Peter Kelley   www.actingonfilm.com
Shakespeare: Alec Harrington, HB Studio
Voice: Liz Hodes, Mark Calvert, Bonnie Fink
Commercial acting: Mary Ann Conk, School for Film and Television
Acting internship at The Looking Glass Theatre, NY

Skills
Singing (soprano); Conversational Spanish, Hebrew. Accents: Southern, English, Persian;
Public speaking, tour guiding.

Height: 5'10''
Weight: 130 lbs
Hair: Dark brown
Eyes: Blue

Union Affiliation: AEA / AFTRA

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BIOGRAPHY
A California native, Roya Shanks is now a New York-based actor actively pursuing a career in theater, film and television. She holds a BA in Theater from Yale University and has also completed two years of intensive training with Maggie Flanigan, a legendary teacher in the Meisner technique.

In New York, Roya has appeared Off and Off-off Broadway with such companies as Urban Stages, Prospect Theater Company and The Looking Glass Theatre. At the same time, she has continued to nurture her love of classical theater through summer work with the Texas Shakespeare Festival and the Summer Theater of New Canaan. She made her national television debut in 2004 as vixen Jillian Masters in the daytime drama One Life to Live. Roya has also enjoyed opportunities to perform internationally in Israel, South Africa, Turkey and China.