“be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” -Thoreau

GINA RIZZO BISHOP made her Broadway debut as Mary Rogers in The Will Rogers Follies. Her National Tour credits include: The Will Rogers Follies, Gypsy and Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. She is a working actress on stage and screen with theatrical credits that include: Hair, Anything Goes, Seussical, Annie, Godspell, Unfabulous, and Drake & Josh on Nickelodeon. Gina is an accomplished Los Angeles based choreographer having worked on shows such as: CW’s Girlfriends, The Game and Big Love on HBO. Gina has been teaching dance to children for 22 years and has played an integral role as Choreographer and  Co-Artistic Director for ShowCamp Performing Arts Camp founded by her parents as well as multiple Arts Organizations, including and the Burbank Vocal Music Association Show Choirs. She is honored to have traveled internationally offering free dance classes and teaching English to underprivileged kids in: South Africa, Thailand and Bali. In 2016 Gina spent the year performing as a dancer with Carnival Cruise Lines and in 2017 toured the west coast with Hollywood’s premiere tap dancing troupe, The Satin Dollz. Gina was honored to premiere Urban Death at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe festival in Scotland, with North Hollywood’s ZJU Theatre Company. She is proud to inspire young performers to utilize the stage as a positive platform by creating events for awareness. As a result, hundreds of students in the city of Burbank have teamed up with Gina to “Dance For A Cause” to raise community support for valuable organizations. Over the years they have made considerable contributions to: The Invisible Children’s Network, Children of Haiti, Soles 4 Souls, Burbank Temporary Aid, The Bully Project, Marley’s Mutt, Love Yourself Campaign in 2020, Puerto Rico Earthquake Relief and more… Gina is motivated on and off the stage by her love of the performing arts and its value in the world. And, she hopes to be able to continue doing it for as long as she is given.

“Actors are some of the most driven, courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one year than most people do in a lifetime. Every day, actors face the financial challenge of living a freelance lifestyle, the disrespect of people who think they should get real jobs…, and their own fear that they’ll never work again. Every day, they have to ignore the possibility that the vision they have dedicated their lives to is a pipe dream. With every role, they stretch themselves, emotionally and physically, risking criticism and judgment.With every passing year, many of them watch as the other people their age achieve the predictable milestones of normal life – the car, the family, the house, the nest egg. Why? Because actors are willing to give their entire lives to a moment – to that line, that laugh, that gesture, or that interpretation that will stir the audience’s soul. Actors are beings who have tasted life’s nectar in that crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirit and touched another’s heart. In that instant, they were as close to magic, God, and perfection as anyone could ever be. And in their own hearts, they know that to dedicate oneself to that moment is worth a thousand lifetimes.” – David Ackert, LA TIMES.

 

“There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.” – Rand

 

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”- Graham

“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves,
their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” – Adams

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” -Freud

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”- Graham