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Mariann Aalda

United States
http://www.MariannAalda.com
AFTRA, SAG, AEA

Performer Profile

  • Gender: Female
  • Height: 5 feet 7 in
  • Weight: 140 lbs
  • Age Range: what you see - is what you get
  • Physique: Average
  • Hair Color: Brown
  • Hair Length: Chin Length
  • Eyes: Brown
  • Ethnicity: Mixed, African American
  • Voice Type: Soprano, Alto

Representation


Performer Skills

  • Performance Skills: Improvisation, Comedian, Voiceover, Host, Singing
  • Accents: Southern, Puerto Rican, Midwest, Jamaican, South African

Education

  • Southern Illinois University, B.S. Communications, Carbondale, IL
    Concentration in Theater & Journalism
  • Negro Ensemble Company, Two Yr. Theater Training, NYC
  • Acting/Scene Study/Script Interpretation
    Milton Katseles, Darryl Hickman, Ed Kovens, Stella Adler
  • Improv/Sketch/Standup
    Paul Sills, Alan Albert, Linda Smith, Judy Carter, Dan Telfer

Training

  • Hypnosis Motivation Institute, Tarzana, CA, One Yr. Training - Certified Hypnotherapist
    As an acting & performance coach, I often use hypnosis to help actors and others to remove subconscious blocks impeding their success. * * * "Mariann is a lifesaver. Not only did she get me past my fear of flying when I had a 12-hr flight to Denmark to do a show, but when I developed bronchitis the day of an important backers' audition, she did a phone session with me that got me through the performance without even a cough!" -ANNIE KORZEN, "Doris Klompus"/SEINFELD

References

  • Available on request

Employment Details

  • Primary Citizenship: United States
  • Valid Passport: Yes

Printable Resume & Headshot; On Camera & Voiceover Reels

iActor http://www.sag.org/iactor/MariannAalda

Standup

Caroline's, NYC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS81hZt-xAs

Hollywood Improv http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epdLwvbjNWc

Second City, Chi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FexITDHPec8&feature=related

MySpace Comedy http://www.myspace.com/mariannaalda

Additional Performance Videos

M.O.I.S.T.! - Musical Comedy

3 BLACQUE CHIX - Sketch Comedy

Blogs

Salon.com http://www.thelittlewomangonewild.com

Eye On Monticello http://eontoday.blogspot.com/

Additional Links

NOW CASTING http://www.nowcasting.com/mariannaalda

ACTORS ACCESS http://resumes.actorsaccess.com/mariannaalda

CASTING NETWORKS http://resume.castingnetworks.com/mariannaalda

ARCHIVES

BIO

A graduate of Southern Illinois University and New York’s famed Negro Ensemble Company theater training program where Robert Townsend and Laurence Fishburne were classmates, Mariann made her stage debut with the legendary Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee in TAKE IT FROM THE TOP while honing her comedic skills with the NYC sketch troupe OFF-CENTRE THEATRE, which spawned John Leguizamo, and touring with the improv group THE PROPOSITION, which spawned Jane Curtin. However, it is Mariann's work in television for which she is most noted: an AFTERNOON TV Award for the long-running role of "DiDi Bannister" on the soap opera, EDGE OF NIGHT; series regular roles on THE ROYAL FAMILY as the daughter of Redd Foxx and Della Reese; three seasons on HBO's FIRST & 10 opposite O.J. Simpson as his beleaguered wife; Mo'Nique's arch-nemesis, "Hannah Foster" on THE PARKERS; the "tragically disfigured Lena Hart" on the soap opera SUNSET BEACH; host of DESIGNS FOR LIVING on USA, and recurring on DESIGNING WOMEN as "Lita Ford," the high-maintenance girlfriend of Meshach Taylor, with whom she re-teamed in the Kidd ‘n Play cult-comedy CLASS ACT as Kidd’s clueless mom...and of whom NY TIMES reviewer Janet Maslin said "...provided the film's funnier episodes."

Developing her empty-nesting, "Little-Woman-Gone-Wild" stage character in the one-woman show, BLACK DON'T CRACK...BUT DON'T TRY AND SPREAD IT TOO THIN, she expanded on it with the sketch troupe 3 BLACQUE CHIX. THE LOS ANGELES TIMES hailed her performance as "...galvanic! ...a perkily libidinous Mary Tyler Moore," while LA WEEKLY proclaimed her "a hammily hilarious Donna Reed." As the relentlessly upbeat "Ginger Peechee-Keane," Mariann continues her intrepid navigation thru the minefields of mid-life in M.O.I.S.T.! -- the sex-istential musical-comedy celebrating the vibrancy, vitality and viability of the mature woman, which she co-wrote with Iona Morris and which had a successful nine-month run in LA, and her MIDLIFE MAYHEM & MISCELLANY blog on Salon.com -- all in the pursuit of putting a positive and humorous spin on aging...which she feels as a "calling."

Cited by the California State Assembly and named "Volunteer of the Year" by the Los Angeles Dept. of Children's Services, Mariann has appeared on ABC's NIGHTLINE and written articles for THE LA TIMES and SOAP OPERA DIGEST on the impact media can have on at-risk youth. Also an activist in the prevention of HIV/AIDS, she was a contributor to Gil Robertson's anthology NOT IN MY FAMILY (http://www.thebody.com/content/whatis/art46676.html)about the toll AIDS has had on the African-American community and she and Iona are developing a sponsor-funded "Be Sexy...Be SAFE" initiative as an adjunct to M.O.I.S.T.!

Now an empty-nester, herself, she's free to go wherever the work takes her: the legit stage; comedy clubs; and while based in Chicago, also working in New York & Los Angeles as a SAG/AFTRA local.


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