Tina D’Elia is a Bay Area award-winning solo performer, actor, producer, co-screenwriter, and casting director.Tina also coaches actors and public speakers and teaches acting on-camera. Tina’s west coast premiere of Overlooked Latinas at the Brava Theater received a successful audience response of multiple standing ovations and sold-out houses. Her show is featured as a Rising Star show Wednesday June 5th as part of the National Queer Arts Festival. Directed by Mary Guzman and Dramaturgy by David Ford. 

Tina’s solo show: The Rita Hayworth of this Generation, also directed by Mary Guzmán, won Best of Fringe (2015) and won Best of Sold Out Shows at the San Francisco Fringe Festival (2015). Tina has presented her solo show work for a variety of venues including: The New Theater, The Theater Offensive, The Marsh Rising Star, Case Western University, Stage Werx, Women on the Way Festival/Shotwell Studios (2002), The National Queer Arts Festival, Best of LezWrites/3Girls Theatre Company.

Tina recently received a producer award from the Equality International Film Festival April 13that the Black Berkeley Theater. Tina is the San Francisco Casting Director for Lissette Feliciano SAG MLB film Women is Losers, shot in San Francisco this past February-March 2019.

Tina cast and is a principal actor the ground breaking short film SAG film series Transfinite by Neelu Bhuman playing around the country including in the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival playing at the Victoria Theater in San Francisco 6/25 6:30pm and 9pm at the Landmark Theater in Piedmont, CA 6/27. 

Tina’s SAG feature film credits include: The Pursuit of Happyness, Knife Fight, GuitarMan, Junkie, and television/webseries credits: Trauma (NBC) Sense8 (Netflix),and Dyke Central (Amazon).  She was nominated for the Best Actress in a Comedy with the San Francisco 48 Hour Film Festival (2010). Tina is honored to be part of the leading national lesbian magazine’s CURVE Power list of 2017. Tina received the Best Actress Award from the Equality International Film Festival (Emeryville, CA, 2017) and received the Diversity Casting Award (2017) and the Trail Blazer Award and Executive Producer Award from the Equality International Film Festival (Sacramento,2015). Tina and director Maria Breaux won the Frameline43 Film Festival Audience Award for her co-screenwriting in the short film Lucha, (2009).

Tina teaches acting classes in the Bay Area including with the San Francisco Acting Academy run by the beloved Paul Ghiringhelli at Das Studios. Tina is proud to be the Program Director for 3Girls Theatre for the LezWrites BTQ playwrights/solo performance program.