Terra Chaney

New York City

AEA

About Me

I am based in New York City. I am originally from Indianapolis, IN. I began performing in my last two years of high school. After graduating, I moved to NYC to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. It was there that I was able to deepen the understanding of my craft and begin to find my voice. I have had the great opportunity to work regionally at a few classical theaters. I've also had the opportunity to do some exciting projects here in the city. My pursuit as an artist is to magnify extraordinary people whose stories are not always seen.

“My faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.”
— Toni Morrison

Photo by HanJie Chow

Photo by Avery Brunkus

Photo by HanJie Chow

News…

  • Terra recently joined Blair Underwood and Nicole Behari for a reading of Katori Hall’s "The Mountaintop" at Signature Theater Directed by Brandon J. Dirden

  • Terra joined the inaugural cohort of The Actors Center's Mentorship Program for Emerging Artists

  • "It was a particular pleasure to see Chaney move so convincingly from little sister and budding naturalist to sly fiancée to a street gossip."

    Frontrowcenter.com

  • "Terra Chaney as Luciana gets great mileage out of [a] minor character."

    -Hartford Courant

  • "Some of the funniest come from Margaret, played by Terra Chaney, who not only tells it like it is but transforms herself from ingenue to Elinor’s competitor with ease."

    -Morristown Green.com

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Upcoming Projects

To be announced…