Dr. Heather Rasche is an actress and an educator. She taught acting to directors for the past four years at the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television. She has also taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Brooks Institute of Photography, and privately. She completed her doctorate at the University of California-Santa Barbara where her research focused on the mid-life female body in performance. Her dissertation, "Actresses, Age, and Anxiety", explores how the disguises of youth, both cinematic and cosmetic, alter performance.
PhD and MA University of California-Santa Barbara; BFA New York University.
