Desi del Valle

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Height : 5'4"
Hair : Dark Brown
Eyes : Dark Brown


THEATER

VENUE	PLAY	ROLE	DIRECTOR
Cherry Lane Theatre New York	Stockholm, Brooklyn	Wanda	Desmond Hall
Theatre Rhinoceros San Francisco	Fool For Love	Martin	Joan Grinde & Megan Murphy
Theatre Rhinoceros San Francisco	Co-Dependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same	Various	John Morace
Sex Club Shakespeare San Francisco	All's Well That Ends Well	Mariana/Widow	Val Hendrickson
Exit Theatre San Francisco	La Turista	Boy	Val Hendrickson
Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts San Francisco	La Madonna Nera	Angelina	Nello Carlini
Tearany Theater San Francisco	Daughter of the Floods	The Tower	Marilee Talkington

FEATURE FILM

TITLE	ROLE	PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Desi's Looking For a New Girl	Desi	One of Nine Cubanitos
Costa Brava	Montserrat	Costa Brava Films S.A.
Mod-Fuck Explosion	M16	Complex Corporation
Some Prefer Cake	Robin	Up All Night Productions
Between Places	Tanya	Aisha Media
Honey, I Sent the Men to the Moon	Nettie	Costa Brava Films S.A.
Drift	Carrie	Margin Films
SHORT FILM
TITLE	ROLE	PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
Mariposa	Frankie	dir. A. Sayeeda Clarke
Oasis	Shelby	dir. Hollie Lemarr
Simone's 24	Toni	2Queer Pictures
Unhung Heroes	Joe	dir. Ilya Pearlman
Rev High, Never Idle	Butterfly	Flurry Films
Sparked!	Mead	dir. Jae Carranza & Lisa Marie Hadley
Ashley, 22	Stacey	dir. Monica Nolan
SuperFlip	Lover #3	dir. Celine Salazar
Sightings	Chase	dir. H. Len Keller
Eating Mango	Puerto Rican Lover	dir. Mari Keiko Gonzalez
My Niagara	Enza	dir. Helen Lee
Jeanne and Hauviette	Hauviette	dir. Elizabeth Foley
TELEVISION
TITLE	ROLE	PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
What's Your Problem?	co-host	Dyke TV
The Junkies	Mom	dir. Roodly St. Eloi
Independent View	correspondent	PBS - KQED
The Living Room Festival	host	PBS - KQED
CD-ROM / INDUSTRIAL / VOICE-OVER
TITLE	ROLE	PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
The Second Coming	Carlos's Cousin (narrator)	dir. Jack Walsh
The Paradise of Her Memory	Woman's Voice	dir. Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
En su propia defensa	narrator	dir. Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
MathLinks	host (voiceover)	dir. Peter Schwartz/Dellaruth Video
True Stories	School Counselor	Ripple Effects

TRAINING

American Conservatory Theater : Summer Training Congress
Columbia University : BA, English
University of London, Westfield College : English & Drama

Acting:
Becky Haycox (Improv), Toni Tabara (Improv), Lynne Soffer, Gregory Wallace, Bruce Williams,
Brent St. Clair, Rafe Chase (Improv), Trina Oliver, John Leguizamo (Improv), Aaron Frankel

Voice:
Cynthia Bassham (Speech), Joseph Feinstein, Jeffrey Crockett, Lynne Soffer (Speech),
Frances Epsen Devlin (Singing), Alexandra Ivanoff (Singing), Debra Chambliss (Singing),
Sean Martinfield (Singing)

Text:
Melissa Smith, Drew Khalouf (Shakespeare)

Movement:
Leticia Bartlett (Clowning & Dynamic Movement), Bonita Bradley (Imaginal Movement), Glenn Canin (Alexander),
Andrew Hurteau (Stage Combat), Priscilla Regalado (Dance)

On-Camera:
James Cutts, Joie Seldon, Marsha Mercant (Ear Prompter), Billie Shepard, Celia Shuman (Commercial)



SPECIAL SKILLS

Fluent Spanish, Tour Guide, Product Demonstration, Teleprompter, Ear Prompter,
Excellent Hand-Eye Coordination, Great Handwriting, Photography, Experienced Filmmaker,
Good with Children and Pets


* Passport Current, Class D Driver's License (drive stick)


AWARDS

WINNER: Reel Affirmations, Washington DC's International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival,
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD In Recognition of Outstanding Personal Efforts in Support of Gay and Lesbian Filmmaking Both On-Screen and Off.



SHOW REEL AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

ONLINE CLIP (Quicktime required)