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Sona Tatoyan is a first generation Syrian-Armenian-American stage and film actor, writer, producer, and director with bases in New York, Los Angeles, and Armenia. Ms. Tatoyan is a graduate of the William Esper Studio.

Other training includes a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Wake Forest University, Shakespeare and Company's Summer Training Institute.

Ms. Tatoyan's feature film debut was the lead role in The Journey (2002) - the first American independent film ever shot in Armenia.

Currently, Ms. Tatoyan is in pre-production to star in Celestina, a feature film co-starring famed actor Bill Pullman, Oscar Nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno and up and coming star Raul Castillo (HBO's Looking) which she is producing through her production company Door/Key Productions alongside Academy Award winning producer Barrie M. Osborne (The Lord of the Rings) and executive producer Walter Salles.

Ms. Tatoyan's writing/directing debut short film, Toujours, was a selection at the Arpa International Film Festival 2012. As a storyteller, Ms. Tatoyan is inspired by the universal issues of home, identity, love, family, connection, healing through facing truth, and the confronting of pain/trauma as a means to emancipation/illumination. She believes exploring the untold stories of her scattered people is an opportunity to share her rich, ancient, multi-faceted culture with the wider world.