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Bio for Pilar Walsh

Pilar has performed on stage all her life and has expanded her experience working in film, television, print and cabaret.

Pilar has spent most of 2007 in Hawaii but will be taking up residence in Los Angeles as of January 2008. She came to Hawaii to work as a make-up artist for photographer Elea Dumas, her daughter, located in Los Angeles, who was doing stock photos for Jupiter Images. It was so lovely she decided to stay.

While in Hawaii Pilar was fortunate to have worked with Manoa Valley Theater in the inspired, witty satire of musical theater, "The Musical of Musicals: The Musical".  A show poking fun at 5 different popular Musical Theater giants such as Sondheim, Lloyd-Weber, Rogers and Hammerstein, Jerry Herman, Kander and Ebb. It was a great success and it showcased her numerous talents.

Upon arriving in Seattle in May of 2005, Pilar Walsh worked a print job for AAA of Washington, taught runway modeling, acted on the Spirit of Washington Train “It’s a Mystery” show, shot in-house videos for Children's Hospital and Starbucks, and performed at ArtsWest Theater in her own cabaret show. She also performs as a soloist for UCC in Alki. She is working on a film by Michael Sanchez, “The Return of Great Guy.”

Just this last year, while living in Los Angeles, she played Liza Minelli on MAD-TV , shot a scene with Alec Baldwin and Annette Bening for the film “Running With Scissors”and created her cabaret show “Mostly Sondheim and a ‘lil Lloyd-Weber” which incorporated poetry she has written. She is also a member of Screen Actors Guild.

Her career began as a dancer having studied ballet from her mother, a ballerina from Rio de Janiero, Brazil. She went on to take classes at the University of Hawaii and performed ballets and modern works with the dance department and other venues in Honolulu including the Royal Hawaiian Hotel showroom, Hawaii Opera Theater, Hawaii Performing Arts company and many more. Her dance credits include the operas Faust, Aida, Tales of Hoffman and Mephistopheles, industrial shows for Singer Co., Kelvinator and The Fine Jewelers Guild and many ballets. She began studying voice and acting while in Hawaii and worked on “Hawaii 5-0” , “The Brian Keith Show” and the original “Brady Bunch”. Armed with a letter of recommendation from Jack Lord himself, to give to Charles Conrad, she set out to study acting in Los Angeles where she was born and raised. Instead, she went on to New York to study dance and was hired to work summer stock in New Hampshire performing musicals and also working backstage.

She returned back to Los Angeles two years later to study mime from Richmond Shepard and acting/singing from Lance Lindsay of the Performers Studio. Not much later she decided to marry, settle down with her husband and daughter, Elea, eleven, and eventually have three more children. Twelve years later she divorced and began studying acting in Houston from Brandon Smith and Chris Wilson, and was immediately hired to perform Mother Goose in Actors Theater of Houston’s production of “Pocketful of Rhymes”.

More recently she performed opposite Ken Page, the original Duetoronomy of “Cats” in Austin Musical Theaters “Man of La Mancha” as Maria and prior to that performed in Second Youth Theater’s World premiere of “O’Henry’s Musical Short Stories” at the Scottish Rite Theater. She performed with the Hollywood Playhouse in Florida as Charlotte in the musical “Charlotte’s Web”. Before that she toured with “The Barney Show” as cast manager/dance captain, she sang with the Spokane Symphony an original work by Lucas Richman, the current conductor of the Knoxville, Tenn. Orchestra. Other shows include Bernstien’s MASS, Cabaret, Pippin, Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Man of La Mancha as the Gypsy Moor dancer. She had a lead role in the independent film “Dogs Bark” opposite Michael Costello, which was shown at the International Film & Video Festival in NY/LA. In Austin, Texas she worked closely with the theater community acting, producing and directing.