About the ACTRESS
Heidi Philipsen
's Heidi is best known for her roles in films, both major motion and independent features, such as Darcy, Behind the Mirror, Thirsty, The Business Trip, Marcy and Hobo Heyseus. She's a classically trained actress (University of Michigan R.C. Drama) with experience in both German and English theatre abroad (apprenticing at Theatre 89 in Berlin, which featured the works from artists from the best of the best in Berlin's professional theater scene, including the Berliner Ensemble, Deutsches Theater Berlin and Maxim Gorki Theater, followed by acting and directing at the Friends of Italian Opera English Theatre - now known as The English Theatre Berlin - and Stateside (on Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway).
Heidi tactical dedication, love of research, free spirit and extensive training allow her to delve deep into almost any character, no matter how complex -- she particularly loves playing characters who face internal struggle via passion and a fighting spirit to overcome all odds.
Heidi has, further, trained with some of the best of the best -- at Matthias Schott Studios in Berlin with the late, great Sandra Seacat with Dreamwork and Chekov's plays, Stella Adler Studios and Terry Schreiber Studios in NYC, excelling in Advance Scene Study classes with both master teachers Patrick Quagliango and Terry Screiber -- as well as in Chelsea, Michigan, with Guy Sanville at Acclaimed actor Jeff Daniel's Equity Theater, The Purple Rose.
She's a member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, Film Fatales, the Producers Guild of America (Women's Impact Network & International Committees), the Motion Picture Institute’s Directors Alumni Club, NYWIFT, Founder & President Emeritus of UPWIFT, Women in Film & Television Germany - Hamburg & Berlin Board Representative, Chicago Women in Film & Television, and University of Michigan and Columbia University Alumni Groups. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3069725/
Heidi tactical dedication, love of research, free spirit and extensive training allow her to delve deep into almost any character, no matter how complex -- she particularly loves playing characters who face internal struggle via passion and a fighting spirit to overcome all odds.
Heidi has, further, trained with some of the best of the best -- at Matthias Schott Studios in Berlin with the late, great Sandra Seacat with Dreamwork and Chekov's plays, Stella Adler Studios and Terry Schreiber Studios in NYC, excelling in Advance Scene Study classes with both master teachers Patrick Quagliango and Terry Screiber -- as well as in Chelsea, Michigan, with Guy Sanville at Acclaimed actor Jeff Daniel's Equity Theater, The Purple Rose.
She's a member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, Film Fatales, the Producers Guild of America (Women's Impact Network & International Committees), the Motion Picture Institute’s Directors Alumni Club, NYWIFT, Founder & President Emeritus of UPWIFT, Women in Film & Television Germany - Hamburg & Berlin Board Representative, Chicago Women in Film & Television, and University of Michigan and Columbia University Alumni Groups. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3069725/
