Monica Angrand

Monica Angrand was born in New York City. At five years old, she and her mother left New York for Little Rock, Arkansas. As a teenager, she attended Stagedoor Manor performing arts summer camp, where she studied jazz dance and theater, and continued her dance studies at Little Rock's Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School. After high school, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee where she studied acting with the late Red West before moving to Los Angeles, California to pursue acting full time. She expanded her studies in voice and body with Arthur Lessac in Santa Monica, California to aid with dialect, accent reduction, and body wisdom; while earning an Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts, Theater, and Photography from Santa Monica College. While attending a film screening at Los Angeles Filmforum, she met filmmaker Mike Kuchar and shortly after, acted in her first film with the legendary director. She performed in the film Midnight Suite, which was screened at a Los Angeles Filmforum Kuchar brothers event, and also the film Fallen Angels, which debuted at The Tate Modern in London during a retrospective of both Mike Kuchar and his brother George Kuchar's work. She recently moved to Cape Town, South Africa, where she is creating an experimental film and photographic series dealing with place, family, and the universality of the American Dream.