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About me

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Gia Ochsenbein is an actor, filmmaker, writer, and performance artist based in Los Angeles.
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Originally from Houston Texas, she came to LA in 2021 to attend California Institute of the Arts BFA Acting program under the teachings of Mirjana Joković, Travis Preston, Lars Jan, Marissa Chibas, and Andrea LeBlanc. Back home she worked with The Alley Theater, Houston Grand Opera, Theater Under the Stars, HITS Theater, and many more! With theater training under her belt she moved onto film acting at the age of fourteen and has not stopped since! Some of her most recent film credits include “Bitches Kill Bitches” (dir. Hannah Panov), “The Afters: Venus in Retrograde” (dir. Art Benividas), and “The Mantis” (dir. Wylie Rush).

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While at CalArts, she has branched into new ways of storytelling through found object puppetry and filmmaking. Under the wing of teacher Janie Geiser, whose toy theater class enriched her use of performance through object work and helped her use these techniques most recently in her films “Vampir” (2023), and performance of “Salt” (2022). She hopes to continue exploring and creating with these learned principles, and branching out into other forms of artistic expression. 

 

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