Michelle Thorson

SAG/AFTRA*
  • Performance Type
    On-Camera, Voiceover
  • Gender
    Female
  • Age Range
    35-50
Height5' 6"
Weight135
HairChestnut
EyesHazel
Shoe8.5
Dress6

Audio Samples

Commercial

Animation

Spanish (commercial)

RESUME

Film & Television

Mad MenHorseback rider - backgroundA&E TV
Early EditionBiker - backgroundCBS TV
My Time with BettyCrying WomanHeather Ayers, IFP Spotlight Award
Directing DV Intensive-“The Search”Kim & Val911 Media Center Directors’ Wkshp, Seattle, WA
Caddy Love - TrailerParty Girl3 Dollar Bill, SGLFF, Sandy Cioffi, dir.
MineMom & JenStaged Reading, Screenwriters’ Salon, SIFF
Making Revolution/WildwoodFeatured: MotorcyclistGravity Collaborative, NYC, Dan Klein, dir.
Esperanto – One Who HopesInterpreterColumbia College, Mike King, dir.
Licking WoundsHookerColumbia College, Mark Dahl, dir.
Sitting on the FenceJean (& script consultant)Columbia College, Rikei Kubo, dir
My Kubrick ThingLeadUSD Dept. of Comm.
Coin-OpLeadSUNY Binghamton, Dept. of Film (WNET Fest)
This KidBosnian MotherThis Kid Productions, Portland, OR; Seattle, WA

Commercials

New West Health ServicesPrincipalNorth by Northwest Productions
AOL, Faces, etcPrincipalKevin Smith, dir.
GMAC Insurance, "Mountain"PrincipalFitzgerald & Co./Digital Kitchen
Washington State LotteryPrincipalPublicis
UW Medicine, "Ordinary Things"PrincipalRadical Media/Worksong

Education

Yale Summer Drama ProgramYale University
Voice-Over TechniquesWill Lebow, Collinge/Pickman, Boston, MA; Kathy Keyes, Chicago, IL.
Voice-Over Animation/Character IntensiveCynthia Songé, Susan Blu technique, Blupka Productions, Studio City, California
Voice & Shakespeare’s Heightened LanguagePatsy Rodenburg & The Canadian National Voice Intensive
Solo Show DevelopmentRod Menzies, Santa Monica
School of Russian Art TheatreTheFilmSchool, Seattle, WA
Monologue TechniquesKurt Naebig, The Audition Studio, Chicago, IL; Janet Foster, (via NYC) in Seattle, WA
Meisner TechniqueKay Martinovich & Eileen Vorbach, The Actors’ Center, Chicago, IL
Actor-Director LabsJudith Weston, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Arts: Spanish and Anthropology. Emphasis: Linguistics. Teaching Certificate: ESLUniversity of MT

Skills

OtherBoisterous laugh, Blood-curdling screams, Western Horseback Rider, Motorcycle Rider
LanguageBasic Catalan, Basic Arabic, Fluent Spanish
DialectRussian, Spanish, German, French, New York