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Hey there!
My name is Liliana (she/they) and I am an actor from and based in Chicago. I graduated from Skidmore College with a B.S. in Theatre and most recently completed the ACADEMY at Black Box Acting. Check out the rest of my website for more! Represented by Grossman & Jack.
More from 2024!
Plays, plays, plays galore
In May 2024, I played the titular character in Marfa Lights, an experimental play about what might happen to us after we die, who we might meet, and how we might make sense of how it all ended in the first place. See rehearsal photos from Marfa Lights in the gallery! At the end of 2024, I was so so honored to play Marjory, the broken maid with a sinister agenda, in The Moors with an incredible group of artists, set site-specific in a tiny apartment in Chinatown. To the left is a promo photo for The Moors. See more photos in the gallery and some acting from it in my contemporary plays reel! I also played Marie Curie in the reading of a new play by Jeannie Affelder and Maggie Cain called Sister Chemistry, so so much fun!!
January–March 2024
Bookings! Three shorts and a new play!
Since January, I have had the great fortune to work on a play reading and three short films!
The play, Virtue and Grace, by the incredible Izzy Van Houzen, is a reimagines classic Victoria era tropes in the context of a queer love story, and I had so much fun playing Katherine and the Ladies Maid! The first short film shot was a superhero film called You Not Lightning, in which I played the heartbroken girlfriend of an workaholic superhero, and the other short, It Ends, is a short horror about the dark end of a long-term relationship. In both films, I play the partner who chooses to end things. Typecast, much?
Not quite! In the third short, I played a faded pop star who gives her daughter up and years later tries to find her. Yay!
The ACADEMY at Black Box Acting Class of 2023!
I just graduated!
At the end of October 2023, I and my class of 21 incredible actors graduated from the Chicago renowned ACADEMY program at Black Box Acting in Humboldt Park. It was five months of rigorous conservatory training, studying the Black Box blend of Meisner and Viewpoints, and it was life-changing for me. I am forever grateful for my training and experiences at Black Box, and the life long friends and artistic community I now have. And we have a showcase! Each of us performed three monologues and a 2-person scene. If you want to see my personal page with two contemporary monologues and one Shakespeare monologue, click on this link: https://bbacademyshowcase.squarespace.com/liliana-mastroianni
summer 2022
"Gigi's Party" at The Den Theatre!
in just a couple weeks the run of Gigi's Party begins! it has been such an honor to work as the Gigi understudy on this show. this show has EVERYTHING: robots, advanced medicine, D-party's, liver-friendly alcohol, philosophy, instinct theories, 3D printing, a stunning cast and crew, and more! check it out!
written by Joseph Zaki
directed by Kelly Levander
Aug 17-Sept 4
The Den Theatre
spring 2022
And Baby Makes Seven by Paula Vogel
This Spring, I was cast as Anna/Cecil in And Baby Makes Seven by Paula Vogel in the Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Black Box theater at Skidmore College.
And Baby Makes Seven tells the story of a thruple in 1984 New York City who must kill of their imaginary children before having a live child.
Ensemble included Emily Zeller '22 (Ruth/Henri/Orphanne) and Jonah Harrison '22 (Peter). The show was directed by Gemma Siegler '22, lights by Callan Daniel '23, sound by Libby Henshaw '23, set by Cianna Stovall '22, props by Isaac DeMarchi '23, stage managed by Noah Greenfield '24.
Check out the gallery tab for more photos!
senior project spring '22
for my last semester at Skidmore College, my senior project was a 40-minute one person clown show that i wrote and performed in! the title of the show is night static. it is about insomnia and the things that keep us up at night. it utilizes commedia dell'arte, mask work, narrative structure inspired by the Neo-Futurists, and lots of audience interaction. there were three runs of the show in Studio A at the Janet Kinghorn Bernhard Theater. For more pictures, check out the gallery!
fall 2021
Accademia dell'Arte
this fall, i spent three months in Arezzo, Tuscany studying physical theatre at the Accademia dell'Arte. we learned everything from clowning to commedia dell'arte. it was an experience i will never forget and will carry with me in all future work i do. check out the gallery for photos taken during my time there, including photos from our commedia show, mask making, and cabaret!
vaxxed girl summer 2021
this summer i was fortunate enough and honored to work as a Lab Company actor at The Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY!
June 24-25, 2021
written by Kimberley Belflower
directed by Jasmine Gunter
photography by Rachel Philipson
The Little Mermaid
July 9-10, 2021
adapted by Jacqueline Goldfinger
directed by Cara Hinh
photography by Rachel Philipson
The Bacchae 2.1
July 29-30, 2021
adapted by Charles Mee and Cara Hinh
directed by Cara Hinh
photography by Rachel Philipson
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