Anna Rizzo

Female

United States

Profile Information:

Member's contact info (email and phone or agent):

phone: (603)494-7130
email: arizzo@alumni.berklee.edu

Member's acting, voice or modeling website:

http://www.annarizzo.net

Member's age range:

21-25, 26-30, 31-35

Member's Affiliations:

SAG-AFTRA

Portray-able or Actual Biological Look:

Caucasian / White

Member's PHYSICAL TRAITS (use format on the "Before Applying" page)

Height: 5'3"
Eyes: Green
Hair: Dark Red Brown/ Long/ Curly
Dress/Suit: 2
Shoe: 7.5
Skills: Singing (vocal range: E below middle C to C two octaves above), piano, guitar, dialects (American Regional, British Regional), can easily pick up and learn new accents, yoga, snow skiing, horseback riding, bicycling, licensed driver (manual and automatic), valid passport

Member's Performance Skills:

Artist-drawing, Bicycling-general, Canoeing, Clarinet, Diving, Driving - car, Driving - stick shift-standard, Fishing, Guitar - 6 string, Guitar - electric, Hiking, Host, Ice Skating, Improvisation, Jump Rope, Percussion, Piano, Running - general, Running - long distance, Running - sprint, Singer - Soprano, Singer - Mezzo Soprano, Snow Skiing - general, Snowshoe, Swimming - general ability, Swimming - back stroke, Swimming - breast stroke, Swimming - butterfly, Swimming - freestyle, Teleprompter, Yoga

Recent noteworthy acting experience (use the format on the Before Applying page):

Feature Film:

On the Seventh Date (Tara, Lead) Fake Charmer Productions/ dir. Chris Goodwin
**Winner 2017 Indie Gathering International Film Festival: Best Actress**
**Winner 2017 SENE Film, Music & Art Festival: Best Film**
**Winner 2017 SENE Film, Music & Art Festival Limelight Award for Acting**
**Winner 2017 Shawna Shea Film Festival: Best Actress in a Feature**
**Winner 2017 WNY Film, Art & Music Event: Best Female Performance**
**Winner 2017 New Haven International Film Festival: Best Comedy Feature Film**
**Nominated 2017 Naperville Independent Film Festival: Best Actress*
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Moments From A Sidewalk (Sarah, Lead) dir. Silvia Kovatchev
**Winner 2015 IndieFEST Award of Merit: Leading Actress**
*2016 Bare Bones International Film & Music Festival Nominee for Award of Excellence: Dramatic Feature*
**2016 Indie Gathering International Film Festival: Honorable Mention**
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The Wrong Todd (Lucy, Lead) Wrong Productions/ dir. Rob Schulbaum

Permanent (Gina, Supporting) HeartWorks Productions/ dir. John Mosetich
**2016 Hudson Valley International Film Festival: Nominee Best Supporting Actress, Winner Best Picture**
**Winner 2016 Boston International Film Festival: Indie Spirit Special Recognition Award**
**Winner 2016 International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema Berlin: Best Feature Film**
**2016 Shawna Shea Film Festival Winner: Best Feature Film**
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Sundown (Chelsea, Supporting) Broken Gates Film/ dir. Brendan Boogie

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania, Supporting) Scorpio Film Releasing/ dir. Richard Griffin
**Winner 2017 SENE Film, Music &Art Festival: Best Regional Feature Film**
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Flesh For The Inferno (Kat, Lead) Scorpio Film Releasing/ dir. Richard Griffin
**2016 Horror Society Awards Winner: Best Indie Horror Film**

Seven Dorms of Death (Severin, Lead) Scorpio Film Releasing/ dir. Richard Griffin
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Silence (Mona, Lead) Vipex Productions/ dir. Nelson Reis


Short Film:

Sheppard's Maiden (Rachel Wolfe, Lead) Wild Beagle Productions/ dir. John Depew
**Winner 2017 Best Shorts Competition Award of Recognition: Leading Actress**
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Butterflies (Annabelle, Lead) MeliBee Productions/ dir. Melissa Bennett
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Scary Little Fuckers- A Christmas Story (Peggy, Lead) IM Filmworks/ dir. Nathan Suher
**Winner Best Comedy at 2016 Shawna Shea Film Festival**

Reflexivity (Catherine, Lead) dir. Liz Capozzi
**Winner of 2016 New England College Emmy for Best Short Fiction Film**

Lost In Bloom (Chloe, Supporting) Earthbased Media/ dir. Michael Messina
*Official Selection for 2015 Rhode Island International Film Festival: Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror Festival*
**Winner of 2015 Providence Underground Film Festival Award for Best Film**

Crossing Paths (Amanda, Supporting) Story Street Productions/ dir. Paul Medico
**Winner of Best Regional Short at 2015 Shawna Shea Film Festival**

Angelo's Revenge (Michelle, Supporting) Wild Beagle Productions/ dir. John Depew

The Second Life (Clemence, Supporting) Manguetown Pictures/ dir. Pedro Pimentel

Craniac! (Matilda, Supporting) dir. Paul Villanova


Commercial:

*Conflicts available upon request

Training or acting classes (class name, teacher & where):

Acting:
Boston University Actors Lab- Jan Egleson (3 semesters)
On-Camera Auditioning- Carolyn Pickman/ CP Casting
Scene Study for Film and TV- Bates Wilder/ CP Casting
Film Actor’s Lab - Peter Kelley/ CP Casting
Theatre Workshop- Rebecca Perricone/ Berklee College of Music

Vocal Training:
Janice Edwards (classical- 5 years training)
Janie Barnett (rock, pop, blues, jazz, r&b- 4 years training)

Other non-acting related work, hobbies or charities (not skills) in which this actor is involved (1 or 2 word descriptions):

Worked with victims of domestic violence and sexual assault at the YWCA, taught at an english as a second language class, and worked with people with mental, emotional and physical disabilities.

VOICE ARTISTS ONLY [you must have a professional demo to upload]: illustrative 1-word descriptions for this actor's voice (e.g. conversational, announcer, warm, etc.):

Singing voice: Mezzo Soprano (range E below middle C to C two octaves above middle C) belting, classical singing, contemporary singing, rock, jazz, pop, blues, etc.
Speaking voice: ability to quickly pick up new accents/ dialects, british regional, some spanish language

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