Blanca

•••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••••••• •••••••• BLANCA is an experienced actress in educational theatre, musical theatre and voiceovers. She specializes in cartoons, dialects, accents and children's voices. Blanca is a Bilingual performer (Spanish/English).
Born and raised in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Blanca took on singing at age 10 in the school chorus. She continued singing church songs in high school until she auditioned for a youth theater company called TADA! where at age 16 she was professionally trained to do 5 shows a week in month-long musicals. Blanca studied acting, voice and dance at various acting and musical theater institutions including AMDA (American Musical and Dramatic Academy), HB Studio, Matthew Corozine Studio (emphasizing on the Meisner acting technique), among many others. She completed a 3-week Spanish Voiceover class with Manuel Herrera, whom was very influential in her booking several voiceover jobs. In addition to acting classes, she studied with music extraordinaires Ron Grant, Senior A&R executive of Sony Music and Alicia Keys' musical director, Onree Gill, to name a few. Blanca trains regularly with private voice coach, Kat Sherrell.
Blanca has performed plays, musicals, monologues, poetry in a number of places like The Point, Bowery Poetry Club, Jake's Saloon in East Harlem, and she has sung with a number of bands at Joe's Pub, the Old Dominion, among other venues. Today she tours plays and musicals with companies such as SEA (Society of the Educational Arts) doing bilingual musicals like Little Red Riding Hood in various schools. She is thrilled to work with Carmen Rivera and Candido Tirado (writers of Celia, the musical) on their plays for high school teens through Manhattan Theater Club. She completed a tour to Bronx high schools with a play called "Lessons on the A Train" directed by Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk creator Reg E. Gaines, presented by Monroe College; written and produced by the Downtown Urban Theater Festival.
Blanca has been a member of HOLA, Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors, since 2003. For Blanca's latest resume click on the following link: http://www.hellohola.org/hp5-resume.php?recordID=1004015 or feel free to visit the HOLA website at www.hellohola.org, click on HOLA PAGES and do a search for BLANCA. You can also hear a voice sample on the website.
Here's to Gracie, who believed in me and got us the cheap tix to see Broadway shows.... Unfortunately the last show we saw was Altar Boyz, but atleast we were together. Rest in Peace, girl.. GRACE MARTINEZ: March 8, 1975 to June 25, 2007

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