2009-04-27T12:02:26-07:00 1 Funny, Sweet, and Sexy 2009-04-27T12:00:54-07:00 37e7d4e17cee8c9deba64307732faaedf47bc744 dntaddei@hotmail.com 23 true Danielle Taddei 72923 2 1 d1dc8b42490f053a461825c74b78b0aeab2865e9 4 A professional working actor, she has been acting in Commercials, Film, TV , and Theater for a combined 15 years. Danielle earned a BFA in Theatre from the Theater School at DePaul University, in Chicago, her hometown and graduated with Honors. She has trained with Uta Hagen, Bella Itken, and Patsy Rodenberg, to name a few. She has studied the techniques of Grotowski,Laban,Viola Spolin, Meisner, Feldekrais and Stanislavski. She has been a regular part of the series “Everybody Hates Chris” working with Debbie Reynolds, Ken Wittingham, Chris Rock Jason Alexander, Jerry Levine, Ali Leroi. She has starred in the award winning shorts, “Swimming” and “The River on Randolph Street,” The award winning best new play “Diary of a Catholic School Dropout,” and has worked with the Sundance award winning director of “Brick,” Rian Johnson. Danielle says of her projects, "Every once and a while you'll find a project that really speaks to you, a project that is important to you because of the content and the person you represent in that story.” When Danielle isn’t working on “Everybody Hates Chris,” she loves contributing to the arts in LA by being Artistic Director of Because It’s There Theater Collaboration and teaching an experimental acting class at AFI. Her class is dedicated to developing actor’s skills in making choices they believe in. She believes that actor’s that value their own choices and are proud of who they are and their talents, are then allowed to remove that fear and apprehension that “on camera” auditions bring out and thus, book more jobs. This is how she approaches acting. Of acting, Danielle has said, “I love the strength in acting, the art of doing it takes a lot out of a person. I love the way it makes me feel alive. My heart races, my brain tingles with ideas, all my senses ready in anticipation,each and every time I get to do it, no matter if it is for a whole show, a scene, or a 1 minute audition. It is my job and I love every up and down it throws at me.” 2 2009-05-18T13:38:29-07:00 danielletaddei