Silvana Montoya

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About me

Born in Brazil, to wonderful Colombian parents, I spent the first ten years of my life living in Bogota and came to England at the age of 10 where I have lived since. I think it's fair to say that I am a mixture of languages and cultures and I easily tune in into both, and this has made for a pretty colourful personal and acting life.

In 2015 I co-founded Pimpinella Productions, a Brighton-based theatre company. We've had several shows in the Brighton Fringe, including 'El Hound de los Baskervilles', a comedy adaptation of Conan Doyles' classic in which I play Olga-Lucia a newly arrived Colombian woman with the arduous task of staging this well known Sherlock Holmes tale to save the reputation of the Colombian theatre company she has performed with for 15 years, playing the crucial role of the tail of the hound! In Pimpinella's second production 'Radio Foreplay', I played Jane Gargley - a larger than life, outspoken and very posh English radio presenter.

I also work regularly as a voiceover artist in both English and Spanish.

Additional skills:
Bilingual in English and Spanish, fluent French

Additional information:
​I also love singing and sing in a jazz trio, Jazztastique (jazztastique.com), performing jazz standards, latin jazz and bossanova. We gig regularly in Brighton and surrounding areas. I'm also a member of The Shakespeare Heptet (theshakespeareheptet.com) - we set Shakespeare's sonnets to music in a range of contemporary music genres.

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Languages Spoken	English, French, Spanish
Accents/Dialects	American - General, English - General, English - London, English - Received Pronunciation, French (Standard International), Italian (Standard International), Mexican, Spanish (International Spanish) Acento Neutro
Dance Styles	Jazz, Latin American, Tango, Tap
Vocal Types	Soprano
Musical Skills	Guitar
Organisations / Memberships	Equity (UK)