Tanya Carrasco
Award-winning actress Tanya Carrasco, a dual-citizen of the US and Ireland, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Rutgers University and studied at the ART Institute at Harvard. Her short film "Don't Be Such a Girl" won Best Director of a Short at the New York International Independent Film Festival and her short film "Mercy" screened at multiple festivals. She was a founding member of the theater group The Cosmic Joke Collective in New York City with French actress Audrey Dana and Grammy winner Jesse Harris and performed in many NYC venues including the Knitting Factory and Cornelia Street Cafe. She is also an accomplished yoga and meditation teacher, having studied in New York, India and Costa Rica and has taught for Deepak Chopra in NYC, as well as at Lincoln Center, and as far as South Africa and Japan.