Hannah is a New York City-based actress, singer, and filmmaker.
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I grew up in the Arkansas River Valley, where the isolated forests and rolling hills inspired in me a sense of wonder and a love of the dramatic. My family taught me to revere literature, history, and art, and to my young imagination, our forest was Camelot, our windy cliffs were the Yorkshire moors, our pastures were the battlefields of Rouen. As for me, I was The Lady of Shalott, Jane Eyre, Joan of Arc. By the time I hit middle school, I had a repertoire of great characters I adored, epic poems memorized by heart, and stories I loved to act out in the solitude of nature. I took acting, dance, and voice lessons from elementary school on, and as a high school-er I became an awarded member of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre’s acclaimed young artist program. I was granted a National Merit Scholarship to study at Oklahoma City University, where I graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BM in Music Theatre, and I received recognition as the Most Outstanding Female Senior in the Bass School of Music, an honor voted upon by the entire music faculty. Upon graduation, I moved to New York City.
I am now an AEA NYC-based actress, writer, and filmmaker with a wide array of experience in theatre, film, and television. Favorite credits include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Mary in Mary Poppins, Jane in Tarzan, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, Irene Molloy in Hello, Dolly!, Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls, and Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain at The Barn Theatre; The Pirates of Penzance, Yeomen of the Guard, H.M.S. Pinafore, Trial by Jury, The Sorcerer, Utopia Limited, The Gondoliers and Ruddigore with the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players; Les Misérables, Mary Poppins, and The Bridges of Madison County at The Arkansas Repertory Theatre; Sister Act at Westchester Broadway Theatre; and Outside of Eden at The New Ohio Theatre. I am a two-time recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists grant: for my documentary The Witch of Esperance, and for my new musical adaptation of Jane Eyre. My short film The Poet’s Daughter – which I wrote, directed, and starred in – won Best Short Film in the Hot Springs International Women’s Film Festival as well as an Inwood Film Festival Filmmaker Fund grant. Currently, I am working on The Sara Teasdale Project, an expansive poetry and film history project culminating in 92 short films.
FUN FACTS: I am a vegetarian, I practice yoga, I love the outdoors, and I have run a marathon. I studied abroad in Paris, I play both the piano and guitar, and my favorite book is Jane Eyre.
