Nora Montañez

Awards

TwinCities-Pioneer Press:Mpls Musical Theater "The Secret Garden" Review
By Dominic P. Papatola

And 'Nora Montanez' maid character comes out of nowhere and shakes the rafters with the poppy anthem "Hold On."

Star Tribune Review: Theatre Unbound's "Expecting Isabel"
By John Townsend,

In one shattering scene, 'Nora Montanez' astounds as a desperate pregnant woman fettered by poverty, religious pressures and misogyny.

Experience

EDUCATIONAL:

FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY THEATER DEPT.:
Much Ado About Nothing, Ubu Roi, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, Five Kinds of Silence, South Pacific,

REGIONAL THEATER:

Mixed Blood Theatre: (Upcoming Fall 2010
House of Spirits (Dir. Marcela Lorca)

Park Square Theatre: (Upcoming Winter 2010)
The Odyssey (Dir. Richard Cook)

History Theater: (Upcoming Spring 2011)
The Buddy Holly Story (Dir. Ron Peluso)

Gutherie Theater:
Dollhouse (Dir. Wendy C. Goldberg)

Mixed Blood Theater:
Pajama Game (Dir. Mark Valdez)
Immigrant Dreams (Dir. Gavin Lawrence)
Minnecanos (Dir. Raul Ramos)
Esperando La Carosa (Dir. Jerry Ruiz)
10% of Martha Solano (Dir. Mark Valdez)

History Theatre:
Buddy:The Buddy Holly Story (Dir. Ron Peluso)

Park Square Theater:
Anna in The Tropics (Dir. Peter Rothstein)

Pillsbury House Theater:
Breaking Ice Company Member

Teatro Del Pueblo:
A Woman from Nowhere: (Dir. Alberto Justiniano)
A Voice from Juarez,
Real Women Have Curves (Dir. Stephanie Acosta)
Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Dir. Suzy Messerole)

Nimbus Theatre:
Strike-Slip (Dir. Josh Cragun)

MN Fringe Festival:
Prozac Bizzos (06)
Paper Flowers (07)

Theater Unbound:
Expecting Isabel (Dir. Becky Rizzio)

Theater LImina:
Undress Me (Dir.Seth Patterson)

Stages Theater:
The Guitar Maker's Children*Wksp* (Dir. Raul Ramos)

Illusion Theater:
No Easy Answers (Dir. Karen Gundlach)

Minneapolis Musical Theater
The Secret Garden (Dir. Marlin Rothe)
Bent Broadway (Dir. Steven Meerdink)

Theatre Latte Da:
Parade (Dir. Peter Rothstein)

FILM/COMMERCIAL/PRINT/ VOICE OVER:
Friday's No Hidden Meanings (Maria), What IF..(Woman), The Magnificant Donut (Customer), Man Made (Esperanza),Backpack Boyz (Hiroko)

Best Buy, Target, Home Depot, Miller Brewing Company, Aurora Medical, Great Clips, Brown College, Country Inn & Suite, H&R Block, Fleet Farm, Diurex, Everclear, Cargill, Fingerhut, Ecolab, Shop NBC, Rainbow Foods, Kashi Foods, Currently Spokes-Model for Fingerhut Corp.

Contact information

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Primary telephone: (651) 434-9181

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Education

BFA in Theater at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL. Voice Training: Stephen Houtz, Master Class Performance Workshop(Gutherie Theater): Raye Birk

Training

Bilingual, Great with Children, Ex-Ballroom Teacher, Loud Whistler, Great Laugher

Physical profile

62" tall
Plays ages:   20s   30s  
Petite build
Indian
Middle Eastern
Native American
Caucasian
Caribbean
Mediterranean
Latin
Italian
Hispanic

Onstage skills

Actor

Dancer

Singer

Accents

British London
U.S. Brooklyn
U.S. Southern
Indian
Irish
Italian
Latin American

Now playing

The Taming of the Shrew, Sept 11-26, 2010.  Theatre Pro Rata.

The Taming of the Shrew

See it this week at The Gremlin Theatre in Minneapolis. Presented by Theatre Pro Rata.

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