LEONA GODIN
Height: 5’6”
Hair: brown
Eyes: brown
PWD: blind
Representation: Gail Williamson, KMR Talent (TV/Film: LA/New York)
FILM
The Kerfuffle – Samantha (Principal – Two-timer) – Disability Film Challenge/Short
We Are Vagina – Voiceover/Writer – Sparrow Film Project/Short
A Blank Walks into a Blank – Voiceover (Classic text) – Sparrow Film Project/Short
TELEVISION/WEB SERIES
Unsettled (Forthcoming) – Blind Comedian (Ensemble) – Andrew Fisher
Orleans – Drag Elvis/Streetwalker – Scott Paulin/Paramount
COMMERCIAL/PSA
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Non-24 – Suburban Mom (Principal) – National Network
Communication &Etiquette When Assisting Voters with Disabilities – Leona (Principal) – Board of Elections NY
THEATRE
The Spectator & the Blind Man – 18th Century MC – Kraine Theater/Leona Godin
The Star of Happiness (Solo Show) – Helen Keller (Vaudevillian) – Kraine Theater/Randi Rivera
Fruit Machine 2 – Banana (Literary Improv) – New Museum Theater/Xavier Cha
Noye’s Fludde – Gossip (Alto part) – Arts at the Park/Lighthouse Guild
Sideshow Goshko – Accordion Sidekick – KGB Bar/Leslie Goshko
TRAINING
MN Acting Studio – On-Camera Scene Study
NYU (PhD in English) – Student, professor, lecturer
Lighthouse Guild Music School – Adult Chorus
Improv with Samantha Jones – Intensive workshop
SKILLS
Voice: Legit choral – alto
Dialects: High British, French, Southern US, New York
Dog training skills, inc. guide dog handling
Instruments: accordion, drums
Do you remember when I filmed this in 2011? You and your friend were singing in the Subway. It is beautiful, as are you.
Thanks so much for reminding me of this–such fun to hear it again. I shared with all my friends and it was well appreciated!
I loved your Modern Love essay in the NYT. Looking forward to your book! All the best to you!
Ah, so great to hear! Thank you!
Hi Leona! I just read your Modern Love essay. It is fantastic. I could very much relate to the very end where suddenly it occurs to you most of your fellow writers in the Catskills had no one to go home to. We forget how hard it can be to find and keep love. Just wanted to send you a bit of fan mail all the way from California. Nice work.
Hi Jennifer, so glad you liked my essay and could relate! Makes me so happy. Thank you, Leona