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Talisa will next be seen in the upcoming Lifetime movie A New Orleans Noel, opposite Keshia Knight Pulliam and Patti LaBelle. Her recent credits include a five-month run as Sally Bowles in Celebration Theatre's production of Cabaret and the feature film 1 Night in San Diego, starring Alexandra Daddario and Jenna Ushkowitz. Other theater: Hamlet (Ophelia) and Alex Timbers' The Last Goodbye (Juliet) at The Old Globe, Donnie Darko (Cherita) at the American Repertory Theater, Ah! Wilderness (Mildred) at Arena Stage, and The Dodgers (Patti) and We Are The Tigers (Farrah) at LA's Hudson Theater. Film: Bachelor Lions, Bad Match, and At Thirty We Throw Dinner Parties. TV: "Shameless" and "American Woman." She is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

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Talisa is also the author of several plays and screenplays. Her most recent work, Who By Fire, won the 2021 National Jewish Playwriting Competition. An English major who graduated cum laude from Harvard, she was awarded the Jonathan Levy Prize for Acting, the David McCord Prize for the Arts, and was a member of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and the Signet Society of Arts & Letters.