Resume for Blind Actor Leona Godin

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 – 18^th 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

Writer, singer/songwriter, storyteller