Torie Wiggins is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with a BFA in Dramatic Performance (now known as Acting) and has been performing professionally for over 20 years. She has co-adapted and performed a one woman show, Your Negro Tour Guide, at various venues across the country. Her film work includes A Christmas Melody, starring and directed by Mariah Carey; The Old Man and the Gun with Robert Redford and Danny Glover and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile starring Zac Efron.
She has performed with many local theatres, appearing on the stages at Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, Human Race Theatre Co., Cincinnati Shakespeare Co., and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. She has also worked with WAM Theatre in The Berkshires and The Resident Acting Co. in New York City. Torie’s directing credits include productions at The Carnegie Theater, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Falcon Theatre and The Human Race Theatre Company, and she has worked as an Intimacy Director for the past 5 years. She is an accomplished voiceover artist, having lent her voice to multiple commercials, and most recently, to Broadway’s &Juliet. Also an accomplished playwright, her play Who All Over There was recently produced as a commission at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati in the 2022-2023 subscription series. Her play, Seen, was selected as a finalist for the AGE Legacy Playwriting Grant.
Torie has worked as a professor of acting and other theatre-related classes at Miami University, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Xavier University. She is so excited to be back at her alma mater!
