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Playhouse Northwest Acting School

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New sci-fi movie ‘Blindfold’ to be filmed in Spokane this month

Filed Under: News Tagged With: #CDA, #moviemaking, #Spokane, Acting, playhousenw

Instructor Lisa Skvarla

Lisa’s two passions in life are acting and martial arts, and she has many special skills that align with her two life passions. She’s an executive producer, associate producer, acting teacher, self-defense instructor, fight performer, and an actress who enjoys doing her own stunt work.

Lisa received her degree in Television Production and Communications from Clarion University in Pennsylvania. She is a SAG/AFTRA actor and has appeared on numerous national television shows including “Northern Exposure,” “Bill Nye the Science Guy,” “Case Closed,” and the Discovery Channel’s “The Worst Thing that Ever Happened to Me.” Internationally Lisa appeared on the popular Japanese Television series “The World’s Astonishing News.” She has also appeared in numerous commercials, industrials, web series, and theater productions in the LA, Portland and Seattle Markets.

In 2013 Lisa founded Playhouse Northwest Acting School, which was a dream come true because she loves helping other artists to learn, grow, and prosper in their careers.

“This training has a tendency to not only improve careers but to improve lives. Meisner really is a super power. I invite you to come in and attend a class. Hope to see you soon!” — Lisa Skvarla

Her goal is to elevate acting in local communities across the region.  

In 2018 Lisa appeared in the award-winning feature film “Woodstock or Bust” with Willow Shields (from “Hunger Games”) and Meg DeLacy ( from “The Fosters”) that came out this past spring. She also appeared on the TV show “Wonderland Murders” that was released in February. In addition she is an actor and the executive producer of “Divine Shadows,” an award-winning web series that will be released this year.

Lisa is a 4th degree Master in Tae kwon do and was the proud owner of Lee’s Martial Arts for 15 years in West Seattle, Washington. For  three years Lisa  served as the chairwoman for the American Women’s Self-Defense Association and has taught self-defense and rape prevention courses to women and girls across the country.

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Fundraiser by Lisa Skvarla

Hi, I’m Lisa Skvarla, an actress, producer and school owner of Playhouse Northwest Acting School. I am helping to produce the feature film Blindfold, a sci-fi fantasy that will be released later this year, and I need a little help. Film making isn’t cheap, and we are in our final stages of preproduction and need to raise the final $5,000 for set design, insurance, and food expenses for the cast and crew.

This is the first movie I’ve produced since the pandemic shut us down and it’s a huge opportunity for actors to work again. Blindfold is a local film⎯made in Spokane, Washington and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho⎯and many local artists from the Pacific Northwest are involved and excited to get back to work again.

Would you please consider donating to this fundraiser? If everyone could give even $10 or $20, it would help make this movie a reality. Click here to donate.

About the Movie

On the Starship Incubator, the most important thing is not who you know, but to whom you are wed. Seventy-three years into their enterprise to find a more inhabitable planet, the generations of the Starship Incubator are more concerned with perpetuating the species than the social discord around them.

Central to the Incubator’s social and pragmatic life is the courtship ritual known as The Season in which young adults are matched, and married, through a dating app and a series of speed-dates. In order to “perpetuate the species,” each couple is required to have “1.2 children, in a manner of speaking.” Issues of fertility, gender, love, romance, technology and code take center-stage during the first half of the film.

The second half of the film has a sharp pivot, as issues of government control, class divisions, and lifting the veil to prove that things are not what they seem become central to the story.

About the Director

Misty Grace Shipman is an experienced director who has worked on several independent films, including the movie pilot PIXEL, a short film, TIGER LILY IS MY LITTLE SISTER, which covers the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, PARASOCIAL, a feature film, BOWSER’S CASTLE, a short film, and now, BLINDFOLD. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Grant through the state of Washington for her work on PIXEL, and she was the recipient for a SAGA grant from Spokane Arts. She has received multiple awards for her writing, from the Barnes and Noble Katie Herzog Young Writers Award at the age of seventeen, to the prestigious Hemingway Fellowship in 2015. She is a Ph.D. student in Literary Studies at the University of Washington with an emphasis on film and is represented by Kelly Sonnack of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

Thank you for supporting the arts. I appreciate it so much!
Professionally yours,

Lisa Skvarla

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Blindfold movie, Lisa Skvarla, Misty Grace Shipman, Starship Incubator

Meisner March Madness Acting Challenge 2021

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Win Cash and Prizes! Feeling lucky?!!! 😃

To register go to http://playhousenw.com/donate/

Filed Under: News Tagged With: #takethechallenge. #Meisner #Acting #fun #prizes #letsdothis #PHNW. #Meisnermadness

Happy Holidays from Playhouse Northwest Acting School! ❤

Gift Certificates are now available! You can apply them towards acting classes (in-person or online), summer camps, workshops, kids classes, and/or private lessons. They make the perfect holiday stocking stuffer! To order, call the PHNW office at 206-919-7407. Or email playhousenw@gmail.com.

Filed Under: Upcoming Classes Tagged With: 2020style, Acting, adults, fun, holidayseason, kids, love, Meisner, playhousenw, shopsmallbusiness, SupportSmallBusiness, teacher

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