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Vanessa McGrady
SAG-eligible, AFTRA
Dramatic Artists Agency 425 827-4147

Hair: Auburn/brown Eyes: Hazel

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Television
Diary of Ellen Rimbauer -- Waltzer -- ABC TV
Station Grand Opening -- Electra (stand-up comedy) -- PTTV
Equal Time -- 1st Amendment Commentary -- CNBC
Pros and Cons -- 1st Amendment Commentary -- Court TV
Kinetic Sculpture Race -- Race Commentator -- PTTV

Film
God of Spring (SAG independent) -- Amanda (principal) -- Per Hanson/Failure to Communicate
G-Sale (SAG independent) -- Vicki Bell's assistant (supporting) -- Randi Nargi/Bogwood Films, Inc.
Bar Story(SAG independent) -- Bad date (supporting) -- Kellen Blair/Amerikellen

Theater

Serial Killers -- Various -- Sacred Fools, Los Angeles

bodyBODY: You Can't Tell by Looking -- Writer/Producer -- Empty Space Theatre, Seattle
bodyBODY: Aphrodite Raves -- Self -- Theater Off Jackson, Seattle
Lysistrata -- Lysistrata, Ismene -- Lysistrata Project, Seattle
Venus Rising, Club Dead, Check, Plant -- Various -- 14/48, Consolidated Works, Seattle
Pine Nuts -- Principal (Sketch comedy) -- Union Garage,Seattle
Ed Zeplin Show -- Electra (Stand-up comedy) -- Upstage, Port Townsend
Barbwire Books -- Pinky (Lead) -- Sightlines, Port Townsend
Pajama Game -- Babe (Lead) -- Community, Port Townsend

Commercials/Industrial video/Print
List available upon request

Training
B.A. from New York University in Classical Civilization. Minors: Journalism, Art History
Original Works: Susy Schneider
TV/Film: Richard Brestoff, Jodi Rothfield
Voice-over: Veronica Weikel
Auditioning: Stephen Salamunovich, Jodi Rothfield, Richard Brestoff
Acting: Richard Brestoff, John Abramson
Improvisation: Matt Smith, Susan Connors
Tap/Jazz: Anthony Peters, Kim Morgan, Joan O'Meara

Special talents, interests
Dialects: Standard British, Cockney, Puerto Rican, Midwest, New York, Southern, German, Irish
Skills: Stand-up comedy; intermediate tap dancing; waitressing; bartending; aerobics/yoga, volleyball; swimming; gourmet cooking;  equipped with adorable beagle-mutt named Lucy; can sing Home on the Range in Yiddish; have perfected amazing imitation of my mother
Writing/Producing: Writer, producer of  bodyBODY: Aphrodite Raves, a multimedia exploration of the women's body-image issue; writer for various "Serial Killer" plays at Sacred Fools Theater, Los Angeles

Awards
Society of Professional Journalists features awards 1996, 2000-03, Port Townsend Arts Commission One-Act Play Competition 1997-98, Associated Press 1992

 

 

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