Sona Tatoyan

Sona Tatoyan is a first generation Syrian-Armenian-American stage and film actor, writer, producer, and director with bases in, Los Angeles, Berlin and Armenia. Ms. Tatoyan is a graduate of the William Esper Studio where she studied with the legendary Bill Esper himself. Other training includes a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Wake Forest University, Shakespeare and Company's Summer Training Institute, and, yes, training as a pole dancer (at S Factor, New York and Los Angeles). She speaks English, French, Armenian, and Spanish , received her Yoga Teaching Certification in Goa, India and holds a second degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. An accomplished stage actress, Ms. Tatoyan was featured in the world premieres of José Rivera's Brainpeople at The American Conservatory Theater, Massacre (Sing to your Children) at The Goodman Theater, and Boleros for the Disenchanted, 2008 winner Outstanding Ensemble Connecticut Critics Awards, at Yale Repertory Theater, among others. Ms. Tatoyan's feature film debut was the lead role in The Journey (2002) - the first American independent film ever shot in Armenia. The Journey won the Audience Award at the Milan International Film Festival in 2002. As a writer, her first feature film script The First Full Moon -- a 2011 Sundance/RAWI participant and 2012 Dubai Film Connection/Festival Project-- examines a contemporary American-Armenian family's complicated connection to its roots in Syria. Ms. Tatoyan is penning her feature script Lie.Sex.Death. (LSD). Ms. Tatoyan's writing/directing debut short film, Toujours, was a selection at the Arpa International Film Festival 2012.