Lisa Glass

New York, Chicago, Southern, Brit, European sophisticate, Russian, Italian, French, German, Canadian, Jersey Girl, Midwestern. Sex and the City Girl, Desperate Housewife, Evil Queen, Cop, Action Heroine, Funny Girl, Urban Career Woman, Soccer Mom, Mall Girl.

Credit highlights include a three-spot series of animated commercials for Yahoo! Personal Ads, a guest voice actor spot as a "Sexy Caller" to a phone-in radio talk show on "The Tony Danza Show." Have "looped" several films and television series, employing improv skills and varied vocal characterizations. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University. She studied voiceover technique with Kalmenson and Kalmenson and privately with Cheryllyn Carter. Lisa was one of just three actors chosen from Los Angeles for The Steppenwolf Theater Ensemble Project, an intensive residency program for "gifted professional actors" at Chicago's renowned Steppenwolf Theater, where she trained intensively in improvisation with Second City co-founder Sheldon Patinkin. Other improv training: Advanced Improvisation Training with The Second City. Trained privately in improvisation with Second City alum Robin Menken. Also trained with Oscar nominee Sally Kirkland and served as her comedy improvisation demonstrator in her advanced acting intensive workshops. Studied voice with Patsy Rodenburg, Head of Voice for England's National Theater. Lisa has a strong comedy background and extensive performance experience in both comedy improvisation and stand up comedy, writing her own material. She has a strong theater background and classical training, as well, performing characters onstage ranging from "Lady Macbeth," ("For her part, the husky-voiced Ms. Glass gives her Lady an earthiness that fits the time and place Mr. Zaslove has chosen and her nightmare scene is particularly affecting." - Theatre Times, "Lisa Glass, with a wonderfully throaty delivery, giver her Lady Macbeth an underlying harshness ready to reveal itself.”- Backstage, "Lisa Glass is simply perfect as literature’s classic inveigling vixen and treacherous tease...a jaw-droppingly rich interpretation." - Peter Cook, First Stage), a suburban New Jersey grifter in David Lindsay Abaire's "Kimberly Akimbo," ("Glass is singularly impressive, giving a fluid, seemingly effortless performance that melds the soul of a manipulator with an underlying neediness and a smattering of easy charm." - Backstage Critic's Choice), a guilty, upscale businesswoman in the West Coast premiere of Neil LaBute's "Autobahn," ("Go! Striking performances...three stories stand out. In 'Merge,'Lisa Glass and Michael Franco expertly stake out polar ends of the emotional spectrum. She wishes to crawl into a hole of amnesia, while he methodically analyzes her grammar usage in order to get at an awful truth…” - LA Weekly, "Superb! Lisa Glass is slyly amusing as a guilty wife whose story gets worse with every question." - Variety), a drug addicted daughter of a movie star opposite Orson Bean in the world premiere of Aram Saroyan's"At The Beach House" directed by Marcia Rodd ("Inevitably, the show belongs to Lisa Glass' wonderfully nuanced, brittle turn as Angela." - Backstage Garland Award Nominee, Best Actress), to a tough, out of luck Canadian misfit in Judith Thompson's haunting "The Crackwalker." ("Sandy is the backbone of the play and Ms. Glass plays her as tough and vulnerable, a walking contradiction we can’t help but relate to...as audience members, we're in awe…haunted." - Backstage) Her original romantic comedy screenplay, "Sam," was a quarterfinalist in the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship Competition, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.