TALLIE MARA MEDEL

I AM AN ACTOR AND A DANCING COMEDIAN

BIO

That’s me on the left.  I’m a baby.

I am from Ketchikan, Alaska, a small city in southern southeast Alaska.  At one point, I washed pieces of fish and sealed them in plastic, and one night after work I came home to a bear on my deck.

I went to Emerson College for acting because when I toured there I saw a girl in the BFA Acting program (her name is Sarah Sakaan) do a solo piece where she impersonated her father, and I am so fascinated by my own father I wanted to eventually do what she did.  Here’s my dad Ron and my aunt Marsie dancing last Christmas.

Emerson is where I met my comedy partner Zack Willis, COCOON CENTRAL DANCE TEAM, the directorial wizards Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan (DANIELS), and a long list of impressive people that I get to collaborate with.  Here’s Cocoon.  Cocoon is my dream come true.

During my teaching practicum I was at the Rafael Hernandez Two-Way Bilingual School in Roxbury, MA.  Rosalba Solis is the wizard-champion of arts in urban schools.

I live in Brooklyn and perform sketch, musical comedy, dance comedy and improv, AND THEN I act in movies and music videos.  See