Resume

Tonya Mara

Height: 5'1" Eyes: Brown Hair: Brown
Degree: BA Theatre Arts Randolph Macon College
Location: San Jose, CA
Willing to travel

Lisa Keating Photography

Theater - Acting

The Dear Will Letters - Phoebe - Doll Piccotto - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Anne of a Thousand Days - Cromwell/Percy/Jane/Mary - Melinda Marks - Dragon Theatre Company

Cabaret - Texas (Kit Kat Girl) - Kit Wilder - City Lights Theatre Company

Tournament de Champions - Angela - Melinda Marks - City Lights Theatre Company Light's Up Festival

Greatest Hits of the 48 Hour Festival - Juliet/Bill - Melissa Jones/Tonya Duncan - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Spending the End of the World on OkCupid - Michael Champlain - Pear Theatre

As You Like It - First Lord/Understudy - Cynthia Lagodzinski - Silicon Valley Shakepseare

Shakespeare's Most Wanted - Antonio/Desdemona - Angie Higgins - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley - Anne - Virginia Drake - City Lights Theater Company

Sherlock Holmes &The Suicide Club - Club Secretary - Shawn Andrei - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Love's Labours Lost - Female Swing - Shannon DeMelo - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Sweet Charity - Suzanne/Ensemble - Bill Starr - Sunnyvale Community Players

You Can't Get There From Here - Ann - Cindy Powell - Santa Clara Players

Crossing The Crab Nebula - Mirage - Zina Bleck – Zemfira Stage
The Outer Banks - Lynette - Zina Bleck – Zemfira Stage
Dracula - Mina - Zina Bleck – Zemfira Stage
Cabaret - Celeste - Keith Tittermary – Damascus Theatre Company
Steel Magnolias - Shelby - Anne Davis – Huguenot Community Players

Curtains - Rhonda - Ann Perdue - Henrico Theatre Company

HTC One Acts - Amanda - Jackie Goldberg Jones - Henrico Theatre Company

After Easter - Helen - Bitsy Johnson - Mechanicsville Players

Directing/Assistant Directing

Measure for Measure - Assistant Director - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet - Director - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

The Scourge of Verona - Director - Silicon Valley Shakespeare 48 Hour Fest (voted Audience Favorite)

Greatest Hits of the 48 Hour Play Festival - Director - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Picture Me Rollin - Director - City Lights Theatre Company, Lights Up Festival

Ring of Love - Director - Silicon Valley Shakespeare, 48 Hour Fest (voted Audience Favorite)

The Hood of Sherwood - Assistant Director - Caroline Clark - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

O' This is Counter - Director - Silicon Valley Shakespeare, 48 Hour Fest (voted Audience Favorite)

The Merry Wives of Windsor - Assistant Director - Doll Piccotto - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Christmas Carol - Assistant Director - James Lucas - Northside Theatre

Theater - Stage Management

The Drowsy Chaperone - Walter Mayes - Sunnyvale Community Players

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson - Diane Milowicki - Sunnyvale Community Players

The Three Musketeers - Doug Brook - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Rent (Assistant SM) - Matt Welch - Sunnyvale Community Players

Shakespeare in Hollywood - Doug Brook - Silicon Valley Shakespeare

The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Diane Milowicki - Sunnyvale Community Players

Gypsy - Kim Saunders - Sunnyvale Community Players

South Pacific - Zina Bleck - Castaway Theatre

Little Mary Sunshine - Joe Mattys - Randolph Macon College

Dialects & Training

16 years of ballet (including pointe) at Richmond Dance Academy

On going vocal lessons with Rachel Michaelberg

Proper British

Cockney

Proper Southern

Country Southern

Irish