Luisa Sermol

Actor

Luisa is an Equity actress who has been acting for over four decades! A graduate of the Juilliard School, her credits include Broadway, Off-Broadway, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, Berkeley Rep, ACT, Aurora, Williamstown Theater Festival, Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, Miracle Theater, Corrib Theatre, Shaking the Tree, Profile Theater, Cygnet, Broadway Rose, Badass Theatre, Coho, to name a few. She is a 5-time recipient of the Portland Drama Critics “Drammy” for Outstanding Actress in a Lead role (for Sideman, Heather Raffo’s Nine Parts of Desire, San Merci, Bloody Poetry and Boleros for the Disenchanted.) She holds a Masters’ of Teaching and has been on the faculty of The Actors’ Conservatory for the past six years. A lover of outreach, she has also taught for Theatreworks Silicon Valley, EnAct Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Community College, Lewis and Clark College, Reed College, University of Washington, University of California, Santa Cruz, and numerous others. She has performed with Oregon Symphony’s Nerve Endings, The Tacoma Symphony, Performing, and The Haven Project (helping underserved youth explore professional theatre). Television/Film includes Grimm, Leverage, Personals, Zero Effect, and Insect Poetry. She is a founding member, and is on the Steering Committee, of The Actors’ Reading Collective–a Bay Area actor driven group born out of the Pandemic, that produces high quality staged readings, either live or streamed. Luisa is honored to be a 2024 Lunt Fontanne Fellow.
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