Originally from Melbourne Australia, Luisa Tascone is an actor and singer currently based in NYC.
She is trained in the Meisner technique and contemporary and classical singing.
She is an alumni of the full-time conservatory program from the world-renowned acting school The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in NYC. During her time at the Playhouse she trained in all disciplines of performance, working with many distinguished faculty members. In addition to this, she has trained with well-known Australian actors and has had extensive private training in musical theatre voice, classical voice and the Alexander technique.
Luisa’s credits include lead actor in the short films ‘Through Fault’ (Australia Independent Film Festival and Melbourne Lift-Off Online Festival), ‘Blue Belt’ (Chicago International Film Festival, LIDO Short Stack and St Kilda Film Festival) and ‘The Keys’ (Screamfest Horror Film Festival in LA, Curtas Festival do Imaxinario and Spooky Empire Horror Film Festival in Florida).
Luisa has also performed Off-Broadway in the premiere musical production of ‘Oceanborn’ (at the Rave Theatre Festival produced by multi-award winning Broadway Producer Ken Davenport) and as a solo vocalist at the Melbourne Athenaeum Theatre. In addition to this, she has performed in several other musical theatre productions with multi-award winning companies and appeared in commercials for some of Australia’s highest-ranking businesses including Fox Footy, Medibank, Commbank, Monash University and Chemist Warehouse.
During her career, Luisa has received two commendations from the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria for her roles as Julia Sullivan in The Wedding Singer and Belle in Beauty and the Beast.
In 2020, she co-founded a new Melbourne theatre company Mi Casa Theatre (@micasa_theatre) and performed in their first production‘Tales from the Vault’ in Melbourne in April 2022.
Luisa is a US Green Card holder and a proud member of AEA. She enjoys strength training at the gym, quoting Friend’s episodes and convincing herself it is practical to buy another pair of doc martens.
