Hey, I'm Tessa!

I’m a bicoastal actor, filmmaker and educator with a passion for women led storytelling.

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I recently guest starred on the series finale of NBC’s NEW AMSTERDAM.

I recurred on season 18 of GREY’S ANATOMY as Laura Eames.

My most recent short, FALSIES will be heading into the 2023 festival circuit.

The USC MFA Film Initiative- of which I am a head teacher- has just been awarded a $250,000 grant from Adobe!

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The byproduct of an Argentinean Catholic and New Jersey Jew- A self titled “CASHEW”.

I started my acting career at the ripe old age of 9 and have continued to develop my creative voice as a hyphenated artist. I graduated from Barnard College with a dual degree in Theatre and Anthropology. I moved from NYC to LA in 2016 and gave up my subway crawling for traffic jams and a Prius named Ruth Bader Ginsburg II.

You can usually find me in a Los Feliz coffee shop or at a bar with a book and a fizzy drink. If i’m not there i’m definitely somewhere on a diatribe with a stranger about how the only thing better than a New York bagel is a New Jersey bagel.

I completed my MFA in acting at The University of Southern California where I am now a proud Professor of Theatre Arts and Filmmaking.