Tasha Ames is a 2008/2009 Ovation Award Nominee for Featured Actress in a Play for her work in RABBIT HOLE at Malibu Stage Company.
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As an Ovation Award Nominee, LA Stage asked Tasha the following questions:
What was the moment that first inspired you to pursue working in the theatre?
I was lucky enough to have two elementary school teachers (3rd and 5th grade) that did plays with our class. they were the only teachers doing it and it wasn’t part of the curriculum. “charlie and the chocolate factory” was the first play ever and i was hooked. i have been pursuing it ever since.
What do you feel made the production you were nominated for particularly successful, either overall or for you specifically?
Graeme Clifford is primarily a film director and believed that casting was the most important part of this play. he assembled a brilliant and dynamic group of actors and then was ready to really co-create with us. this was one of those blessed roles for me where i really felt i could “do no wrong”. probably the most fun i’ve ever had in a production.
What project or projects are you currently working on?
right in the middle of shooting two webseries and an indie film. toying with the idea of producing another project with my Workshop 360 partner-in-crime, L. Zane.
What do you love most about theatre in Los Angeles?
i love how raw and unassuming it is. it is almost always a given that every collaborator in the LA Theatre scene is putting their hearts and souls into the productions for fun and, for the most part, for free. it’s really beautiful and inspiring.
What’s your dream project?
my dream project is something truly theatrical, meaning, you really couldn’t film it. not a showcase or something that looks like you could do a three-camera shoot of it. but at he same time, truly relatable and realistic. a lot of plays today are heavier on one-side or the other. my dream project will strike that perfect balance between the two.
Biography: TASHA AMES, who grew up on the Southern California coast, left for New York at 18 and spent two years at NYU (Tisch), then transferred to USC and graduated with a BFA in Theatre. She co-starred in Ed Zwick’s and Marshall Herskovitz’s NBC drama “Quarterlife” and most recently, the pilot of Liz Tigelaar’s new series for the CW, “Life UnExpected”. She has been in over 30 productions including: “Rabbit Hole” at the Malibu Stage Company, the Lost Angels production of Bugat the Coast Playhouse, Vinegar Tom, Fire Eaterand Betty’s Summer
Vacationwith Workshop 360, Patricia Cotter’s Best/Worstwith Apartment A Theatre Company and Cat On a Hot Tin Roof and This Is Our Youth at the Edinburgh Fringe
Festival in Scotland, as well as many commercials and independent films, including “In Memory of Me” written/directed by Samantha Lavin. Tasha has directed at the
24th Street Theatre (Stop Kiss), the Powerhouse Theatre (The Mother of Modern Censorship), The Electric Lodge (Troubleby Stefani Relles) and USC. Tasha also co-founded the award-winning Workshop 360 Theatre Company with L. Zane and produced, acted, directed, and served as Managing Director with the company.
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