Ingrid Sonnichsen has acted professionally for over forty years in regional theaters such as the Huntington, ART, and the Charles (Boston), the Guthrie (Minneapolis), Mark Taper Forum and LAAT (Los Angeles), Long Wharf (New Haven), and Ford’s Theater and the Kennedy Center in D.C.  and the Pittsburgh Public Theater. She’s worked on Broadway (Best Friend), Off-Broadway (Dylan and Measure for Measure), and in numerous commercials and voiceovers, both national and local, as well as ten seasons of summer stock. She was a member of the casts of Shear Madness for over ten years, doing the show at the Kennedy Center, in Boston and in Pittsburgh. Ms. Sonnichsen taught acting for almost twenty years at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and previous to that for three years  at the American Repertory Thea. at Harvard  in Cambridge, Ma.  She taught acting in Japan for SKD and directed in South Africa (WE and Them) a play which ran in Durban, Capetown and Johannesburg for over two years. She was awarded a Certificate for Distinction in Teaching from Harvard, and the Henry Hornbostel Award for Teaching from the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon. She co-authored The Source, a guide for Actors in the New England Region and a book on taxes, Buy This Book – It’s Deductible published by Baker’s Plays. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Minnesota, and a Master’s in Acting from Wayne State University in Detroit.