BIO
Tamara Geisler is an Actor, Teaching Artist, Producer and Associate Director of Yonder Window Inc. and Audition Prep Intensive. Born in Mexico City, Tamara moved to the United States at the age of three. She received her education from the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, the British American Dramatic Academy in London, and received her Bachelors Degree in English and Theater from Barnard College. Since 1994, she has assisted at workshops on Mexican folklore and cultural traditions, including Dia de los Muertos programs. Her commitment to teaching about Mexican identity includes work at the Children’s Museum, The Newark Museum, the American Crafts Museum and a 2012 JP Morgan Chase Artists in Our Communities grant. She has been acting from the age of eight, and has performed in Off-Broadway productions, at Columbia University and can be seen in various short independent films. She made her London debut in “A Midsummer Nights Dream” in 2009. Tamara has also taught theater in over a dozen New York City public schools and at the Children’s Theater Company in Union Square. She is a teaching artist through the Center for Arts Education, Sundog Theater, Curious Jane and is the Spanish and Theater teacher at Building Blocks Montessori School, Staten Island. She is fluent in both English and Spanish. Tamara is an acting member of Illuminart, a theater company committed to writing and performing anti-bullying plays to students throughout the city, as well as an acting member of the Writopia Play Festival, whose most recent festivals performed at the June Havoc Theater and on Theater Row. Tamara’s most recent work includes the “Conscious Theater Workshop” and “Back: A Tragedy Party” through the Poetic Theater Productions.  You can catch her in an upcoming adaptation of Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People” directed by Dorothy Lyman in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.