Dawna Lee Heising

Short Biography

Dawna Lee Heising is a member of SAG-AFTRA. She is excited to be playing The Oracle in Danica Fontaine's "Ethyrea: Code of the Brethren"; Olga in Aki Aleong's "Shish-kabob" and the Snake Woman in Mark Savage's "Circus of Dread". She is also the VP of Publicity for Mustard Seed Media Group.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. She has trained with acting teachers Sal Romeo; Mark Majarian; Guy Stockwell; Tim Russ; Richard Hatch; and at Tepper-Gallegos; South Coast Repertory Theatre; Cypress College; and U.C. Berkeley. She continues to study acting with June Barfield (Uta Hagen method); Michael Sewell (Meisner method); and with Tom Amen at Golden West College.Dawna won a 2013 EOTM Award for Outstanding Television Talk Show Host for "Eye on Entertainment"; won Miss Galactic Film Festival in August 2014; and won Best Actress for her role as Naomi Perkins in "After School Massacre" at the 2014 Mockfest Film Festival.She 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. Her uncle is famed Director of Photography Tak Fujimoto.Dawna won Ms. World 2008; Ms. Universe 2009; Mrs. California United States 2000; Mrs. American Achievement 2001; Miss Celebrities of Facebook 2012; and Miss SortFLIX 2013. In addition, she is 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.