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.

Feature films

2019
iGilbert
as Marie
directed by Adrian Martinez

2018
You & Me
as Eva
directed by Alexander Baack

2012
On the Road - Unterwegs
as Maggie
directed by Walter Salles

2005
The Dry Spell
as Post-jog Woman
directed by John Erick Dowdle

2002
The Journey
as Eve
directed by Edwin Avaness and Emy Hovanesyan

Short Films

2011
Toujours
as Laila
directed by Sona Tatoyan

2007
The Tape Recorder
as No Name Girl
directed by Jose Rivera