Jeryn Sonnabend

Jeryn Sonnabend, was born as Jeryn Durtka on February 18, 1994 in Redmond, Washington but was raised in central Washington. She is German and African American, also having Polish and French decent within her family. Jeryn has always loved the performing arts and has been active in them through out her life. She was in choir for six years, Taekwondo for ten years, dance for four years and even though always loved acting, just recently began in 2013. Jeryn has always wanted to go to school to become a sign language interpreter and through her ASL teacher was introduced to acting when he prompted her to take his Acting I course. Later that year he had come to her with the opportunity to go with a theater troupe that was traveling to Scotland for the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. After accepting, for a year she worked with the cast and crew and performed the two characters, Rafaela and Alma in the play Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, her first theater performance and new found love for acting. Recently, Jeryn has been a part of a new web series called Siblings (2014) that is aired on YouTube. The series just wrapped up it's first season and is going to start filming for the second in the coming months. Although acting is new for her, she has been dedicated in immersing herself into theater, other web series, TV and film.