Tasha Tacosa

Tasha Tacosa is an actress, writer and producer who began performing professionally before she turned ten, becoming the youngest performer ever cast by The Virginia Shakespeare Festival Guild, an Equity theater company. She appeared in more than 80 stage plays and musicals, including Felicity: An American Girl, and as a child held the series regular role of PJ on the PBS series Minds on Science. Her comedy background was shaped partly by Second City Improv, and she wrote and produced two television series for Showtime. She wrote and starred in a first film that Elevate Films chose to produce and screen at its festival, and played the female lead in a Latin sketch comedy pilot, creating ten characters. Rat Scratch Fever (2011) brought her a Best Actress award from the Buffalo Scream Festival, and she won Best Webseries at LA Comedy Fest for TRENT AND TILLY. She also hosted a radio show about independent filmmaking and supernatural horror scripts.