Women In Hollywood: Warriors from Within with Tania Z

Tania Z, actress, filmmaker and self-proclaimed "glamazon," talks about her work advocating for legalization of medical marijuana for military veterans, her film that’s part of the LACMA archive, and how she loves presenting stories with an alternate viewpoint in this episode of the Women In Hollywood: Warriors from Within series. Look for a new episode every Sunday as the Performers & Creators Lab Podcast shares these captivating short profiles of women change makers making Hollywood great here and now.

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Tania Zee is a SAG-AFTRA guild actor and Film & TV Creator from NYC, currently residing in LA.  She is a 6 foot tall, U.S. Army Veteran, doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.), and former model who proudly holds the trifecta of beauty, brains, and brawn. 

Tania stars on television, film, digital, and in network television pilots.  Her dedication & work ethic floods into the realms of writing, producing, and directing across genres, on various platforms; that includes the internationally distributed feature film, The Internship Games, as well as television options, two films created for the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts (LACMA) archives, and other projects at various stages of development.

Learn more here: www.imdb.me/taniazee 

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Holly Shaw, CHT  is a performance coach, creativity researcher and stand up comedian.  Growing up in Indianapolis, IN she convinced her parents she needed to go to Chicago to get her own agent when she was 14 years old and has spent a lifetime in film, T.V. and on professional stages all over the world as an actor, dancer, and director.

Now she shares her passion for the problems that artists face as a Creativity Coach and a Certified Hypnotherapist and has helped hundreds of artists, from Emmy award winning and Grammy nominated artists to world class choreographers overcome their anxiety, stage fright, impostor syndrome, and creative blocks so that they can create original work and totally kill it onstage again and again without feeling like they're selling out or losing their sanity.

In 2016, Shaw wrote and released her book, The Creative Formula: Compose, Choreograph, and Capture Your Masterpiece  which has become an Amazon bestseller.  In 2018 she launched the Performers & Creators Lab podcast which was named one of 2019's most outstanding podcasts by Databird Research. She teaches regularly at the SAG/AFTRA offices in L.A. and SF and runs creative laboratory workshops like the Comedy Lab Open Mic once a month at Monaghan's on the Hill in Oakland. Follow her on Instagram @hollyshawspritely