Cynthia Chanin

Dynamite can come in small packages. For at the age of twenty-one, Cynthia Chanin is already an eighteen year veteran of the professional stage and a very unique, accomplished performer. While Cindy is relatively new to the cinema, she has performed in over fifty theatre productions - including international & national tours, as well as regional & community theatre productions. Some favorites include Mary in The Secret Garden (touring), Annie in Annie, Marjorie in Extremities, Reenie in The Wetback (world premiere), Rhoda in The Bad Seed (AZ theatre fest "best actress"), Little Red/The Giant in Into the Woods (Edinburgh Festival, Scotland), a young female Lancelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice (touring), and the Vagina Monologues. As the founding artistic director of a multi-cultural college theatre ensemble, Cindy has collaborated with the likes of Alfred Molina, Joel Zwick, Armin Shimmerman and many other accomplished artists. Cindy helped produce all six of the award-winning student theatre company's mainstage productions as well as raised over $30,000 for the ensemble's 2003 performance season. Cindy is also no stranger to the Speech and Forensics Circuit, where she holds the title of Arizona State Champion in Duo-Acting and the National Qualifying Finalist in Dramatic Interpretation (2000). Although many would consider her nomadic, Cindy feels most at home in her native Los Angeles. In between psychology and theatre studies at USC (where she is also Phi Beta Kappa), Cindy enjoys making inanimate objects come to life (she does voiceover for cartoons), hula-hooping (she is on her way to setting a Guinness Book World Record!), practicing yoga (Ashtanga and Flow) and coming up with unforeseen ways to satisfy the vegan palate.