MINDY ESCOBAR LEANSE
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Known for my transformational acting and dynamic physical presence on the stage & screen, I'm also a skilled puppeteer, a voice artist, and builder. I am a trained and versatile performer whose work spans stage, screen, voice, and puppetry. I work to bring depth, precision, and inventiveness to every role—whether grounded in realism or heightened by the musical and the fantastical. My passion for storytelling has taken me from Off-Broadway to international stages and indie film festivals. Recent acting credits include, What Once Was: A Holocaust Memorial Play, a multidisciplinary production revived and performed for over a thousand audience members at The Plaza Theatre in El Paso, and MONAH (short film), an official selection of the Austin Film Festival and the Brooklyn Sci-Fi Film Festival in 2022. I played the role of Leonora Carrington in A Ribbon About a Bomb, a surreal, immersive-based work performed on Governor’s Island, and appeared in the experiential Then They Forgot About the Rest at INTAR Theatre Off-Broadway. I have originated various new works at major experimental venues including La MaMa’s Manifestation Festival, The Bushwick Starr (Species: Human by Georgina Escobar), Dixon Place (The Last Rat...by Hilary Chaplain & Co., The Unbearable Likeness of Jones), and The Brick (Nightmares by Buran Theatre Company). 
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Skills include:
  • Dialects: RP, Cockney, Brooklyn, Minnesotan, Texan, Deep South, Russian, Irish
  • Voice: Mezzo Soprano, Character Voices
  • Musical: Basic Cello, Music Reading
  • Movement & Athletics: Swimming, Skiing, Jazz, Ballet, Yoga, Suzuki, Cheerleading
  • Fencing, Stage Combat, Strong Improv
  • Puppetry: Hand & Rod, Glove, Tabletop, Object Manipulation, Large-Scale, Bunraku
  • Jewish text and Hebrew knowledge
  • Driver’s License​
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