Upon graduation from UCSD with an MFA in Acting, Theresa embarked on a career in New York working with some super-duper artists such as directors Tina Landau, Ann Bogart and Richard Jones, conductor/director Ted Sperling, playwrights Chuck Mee & Peter Stone, and composers, Adam Guettel, Ricky Ian Gordon and Maury Yeston. Performance highlights include being a member of the original cast of the Tony award winning Broadway musical TITANIC; originating roles in numerous plays and musicals off-Broadway and regionally; appearing as featured vocalist on several recordings including, FLOYD COLLINS, MYTHS AND HYMNS, BRIGHT EYED JOY, and THE FROGS/EVENING PRIMROSE.

In 2000, she founded a professional theatre in Northern Michigan where she directed MACBETH, GRIMM TALES, ART, and PIGEON RIVER OPERA and taught acting, The Viewpoints, and Shakespeare techniques to students of all ages. There she recieved grants from the NEA, Michigan Council for the Arts and Culture and others to produce original works and provide arts programming for underserved communities.

Since moving back to New York in the summer of 2006, Theresa has become a member of the faculty at NYU Playwrights Horizons Theatre School.

She enjoys above all other earthly pleasures, collaborating with her musician husband Roy Truax and mothering her four young daughters.
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