Tamara Geisler is an Actor, Writer, Producer and Teaching Artist. Born in Mexico City, she moved to the United States at the age of 3. 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 2000, 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 Wellesley College (Key-note Speaker), The American Folk Art Museum, The Newark Museum, the American Crafts Museum, the Staten Island Children’s Museum and awarded a 2012 JP Morgan Chase Artists in Our Communities grant. Tamara has also taught theater in over a 30 New York City public schools, private schools and theater companies. She is a bilingual actress, who has spent much of her time performing and producing Shakespeare, Experimental Theater and Children’s Theater. Select theater credits include: Digna (Planet Connections, nominated Best Solo Show), Village Orpheus (The Wild Project, winner Outstanding Ensemble Performance), As You Like It (Oxford Shakespeare Company), Places (59E59 & Edinburgh Fringe), Enemy (Mexico, directed by two-time Emmy winner, Dorothy Lyman), World Wide Plays (Theater Row, sponsored by David Letterman). Recent work includes receiving a PASS Residency at the Smithsonian Affiliate, the Snug Harbor Cultural Center for a new Solo play that she wrote and starred in called TINA, on the life and history of renowned photographer and activist, Tina Modotti. You can see her up next in “Homicide City: Charlotte” on the Investigation Discovery Channel. For more information please visit tamarageisler.com .
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Actor in Within/Without Borders: Open Mic Night at NYTW featuring Poetic Theater Productions
Playwright, Actor in TINA
Actor in Village Orpheus in the Fresh Fruit Festival
Actor in Back: A Tragedy Party
Actor & Host in Judson Arts’ Wednesdays’ BAILOUT Theater Featuring Poetic Theater Productions
Host for 5th Annual Generation Now! in Poetic License 2016: A Kind of Now
Actor in and Producer of Taproot in Poetic License 2016: A Kind of Now
Actor in Love Redefined: RESIST in Poetic License 2017: Resistance
Actor in Conscious Language 2015
Actor in Conscious Language 2014