Deadly Beauty: Horror’s Scream Queens and Rising Talent: Dawna Lee Heising

Deadly Beauty: Horror’s Scream Queens and Rising Talent: Dawna Lee Heising

“Dawna Lee Heising is a member of SAG-AFTRA. She will play The Oracle in Danica Fontaine’s Ethyrea fantasy/adventure series of films, and is a publicist for Ethyrea LLC. Dawna will play The Snake Woman and is a producer on director Mark Savage’s Circus of Dread.

Dawna belonged to Sal Romeo’s Friends and Artists Theatre Group in Los Angeles for many years, and has appeared in numerous film, TV and theatre productions, including performing as Dana in “Barbie & the Rockers” at Universal Studios; Cleo the Snake Dancer in “Magnum, P.I.”; Miss Hawaii in “Fantasy Island”; Pamela Forker in “Fork You”; Michelle in “Waiting for Dracula”; Joie in “The Famous Joe Project”; Cynthia in “Unfinished Sonata”; Joan in “Slink”; and Abby in “Pond Scum”. She played Mei Li in “Flower Drum Song” and Liat in “South Pacific ” at the Curtain Call Dinner Theatre. Dawna is the executive producer and host of the nationally broadcast television series “Eye on Entertainment”, and is the Hollywood correspondent for MoreHorror.com.

Dawna has a B.S. in Business Management and MBA from Pepperdine University, and is the CEO of Eye on Excellence Productions and Eye on Excellence PR. She has an A.A. in Theatre Arts and A.S. in Chemistry from Cypress College, and has studied acting at the University of California at Berkeley. She has trained with acting teachers Sal Romeo, Mark Majarian and Guy Stockwell, as well as at Tepper-Gallegos and the South Coast Repertory Theatre. She continues to study acting with Tim Russ, Richard Hatch and June Barfield. Her uncle is famed Director of Photography Tak Fujimoto.

Dawna is Miss Celebrities of Facebook 2012, and won Ms. World 2008; Ms. Universe 2009; Mrs. California United States 2000; and Mrs. American Achievement 2001. She is also a former Miss Los Angeles Chinatown; Miss Orange County Universe: Miss San Francisco Universe; and Miss California Hemisphere, among other titles. She has worked as a swimsuit model for Ujena; Venus Swimwear; and Catalina. She is trained in ballet and jazz dancing, Tae Kwon Do, kick boxing and pole dancing.”*

Location: Huntington Beach, CA

1. How did you get into the industry?

My first manager Matt Chassin was representing Bill Oberst Jr. and Domiziano Arcangeli, who are two of the biggest names in the horror industry. They both became great friends and I’ve done many interviews with both through my show “Eye on Entertainment”. I’ve covered Shriekfest and Shockfest for many years and Seth Metoyer added me as the Hollywood Correspondent for MoreHorror.com. I returned to acting full-time three years ago and Creep Creepersin gave me my first role as Lady Goldfist in “Finger Bang!”, which was a horror comedy. Since then, I’ve been Joan in Jared Masters’ “Slink” and Mz. Perkins in his “Teachers’ Day” and I’ve done “Waiting for Dracula”, directed by Steve Oakley and Domiziano Arcangeli, “Awesome Girl Gang Street Fighter”, “Dracula”, “Fork You” and “Satanicus” for Creep, “Pond Scum” for Mark Savage, and “Deadly Revisions” for Gregory Blair.

2. What Scream Queen inspired you most?

I most admire Sybil Danning. I interviewed her at the premiere of “Virus X” and she was gorgeous and so gracious. She is the epitome of a STAR to me!

3. What are the next couple projects you are working on?

I will be Donna in Andre Roberson and Sergio Candido’s “Visions Evilutions”, a 100 year old Creepy Granny in Seth Metoyer’s “Squeal: Blood Harvest” , the Snake Woman in Mark Savage’s “Circus of Dread” and the Oracle in Danica Fontaine’s fantasy/adventure film “Ethyrea: Code of the Brethren”.

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