Regina Palian is an American film, television, and stage actress as well as a singer-songwriter. Early life and education Regina Palian was born in Long Island, New York and has spent most of her life in the New York City area. The youngest of seven children from an Irish-Italian family, Regina became the first in her family to have a career in the arts, which has encompassed dozens of roles in theatre, film and television as well as a budding career as singer-songwriter. She is also an educator, specializing in early childhood education. Regina graduated with a B.A. in English Literature and in Art History from the American University of Rome. Career Palian studied acting at The Actors Conservatory & HB Studios in New York City and The Beverly Hills Playhouse in Los Angeles. Her debut came in the 1995 production of the critically acclaimed Timothy Leary in Space at Theatre for the New City, where she also performed in The Bodyguard's Amnesia. Other off-Broadway and Broadway theatre credits include Camille, at The Arthur Seelan Theatre; Two Rooms, written by Lee Blessing and produced at the Flux Factory and Independence. Los Angeles theatre credits include: Savage In Limbo, directed by Alex Craig Mann at the Skylight Theatre; The Body & Soul of a Chinese Woman, where she worked in the American debut with writer C. Y. Lee (The Flower Drum Song) and director Peter Henry Schroder in the production performed at the Stella Adler Theater. She performed in Macbeth and Independence at Second Stage; A Very Merry Happy Kosher Christmas, directed by Ronnie Marmo, at Theatre 68, Savage in Limbo and Vampires. television show, which in September 2018 won Best Pilot at the Catskill International Film Festival. Palian is a singer-songwriter whose first single, The Bridge in Calverton, was released in November 2017, followed by Mountain Town, released in January 2019. Palian has also collaborated with multi-instrumentalist and producer Eric Michael Lichter of Dirt Floor Recording & Production in late 2018.
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