Dawna Lee Heising is a member of SAG-AFTRA. She is excited to be playing Marla in Aki Aleong's "The Final Chance"; Reita in Gregory Hatanaka's "Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance"; Joanna in Ted V. Mikels' "Ten Violent Women: Part Two"; The Oracle in Danica Fontaine's "Ethyrea: Code of the Brethren" and The Snakewoman in Mark Savage's "Circus of Dread". Dawna is the Vice President of Publicity for Mustard Seed Media Group and Aki Aleong.
Dawna is studying acting with Emily Heebner at South Coast Repertory, and with Michael Sewell and June Barfield. She belonged to Sal Romeo's Friends and Artists Theatre Group in Los Angeles for many years, and has appeared in numerous film, TV and theatre productions. She has trained with acting teachers Sal Romeo; Mark Majarian; Guy Stockwell; Tim Russ; Richard Hatch; and at Tepper-Gallegos; Cypress College; and U.C. Berkeley. Dawna won a 2013 EOTM Award for Outstanding Television Talk Show Host for "Eye on Entertainment", and won Best Actress for her role as Naomi Perkins in "After School Massacre" at the 2014 Mockfest Film Festival.
Dawna has an A.A. in Theatre Arts from Fullerton College, and has a B.S. in Business Management and MBA from Pepperdine University. She is the CEO of Eye on Excellence [TM] Productions and Eye on Excellence PR. Her uncle is famed Director of Photography Tak Fujimoto.
Dawna won Ms. World 2008; Ms. Universe 2009; Mrs. California United States 2000; Mrs. American Achievement 2001; Miss Celebrities of Social Media 2012; and Miss Galactic Film Festival 2014. In addition, she is a former Miss Los Angeles Chinatown; Miss Orange County Universe: Miss San Francisco Universe; and Miss California Hemisphere, among other titles. She has worked as a swimsuit model for Ujena; Venus Swimwear; and Catalina. She is trained in ballet and jazz dancing, Tae Kwon Do, kick boxing and pole dancing.
