Currently lead singer for the local jazz band, JaKaDa. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Alabama, with an MBA from Vanderbilt,

Ms. Floyd is a prize-winning essayist and poet, songwriter, and photographer.

Acts frequently in community productions as well as on feature and independent films, playing parts ranging from 30 to 50 years old, and is a regular on Court TVs I, Detective re-enactment series.

She is a youthful-looking, curvy 52, 125 pounds, with shoulder-length wavy golden brown hair and eyes.

She resides with her husband, Keith McConnell, and pug, Pasha, in the waterfront community of Foster City on the San Francisco Bay.

Acting Experience:

2004

• Narcissus Pond (Female Lead), a short subject film directed by Hoon Ryoo, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA, May, 2002 Scar (Schoolteacher speaking part), a short subject film directed by Jessica Chang, Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA, July,
• Twisted (Background), feature film with Ashley Judd, Paramount Pictures, September, Dopamine (Featured Extra), independent feature film, San Francisco, CA, September, 2002 Who Wants to be a Millionaire (contestant), ABC Studios, New York, NY, October,
• Bee Season (Extra), feature film with Richard Gere, Paramount Pictures, San Francisco, CA, March,
• Other Arts Experience: Jazz Band Pianist (Medalist, Solo and Ensemble Contest), Huntsville, AL, 1971-72 First Christian Church Pianist and Soloist, Huntsville, AL,

2003

• Bus Barn Stage Company, Los Altos, CA Fluffy Kitty, The Musical (Narrator), written and directed by Liz Wright,
• The Marsh Theatre, San Francisco, CA Bye Bye Birdie (Mayors Wife), directed by Doug Santana, September, 2003, Sunnyvale Community Players, Sunnyvale, CA Fluffy Kitty, Act II (Katie Female Lead), written and directed by Liz Wright,
• The Marsh Theatre, San Francisco, CA Lise Bouvier (An American in Paris), Cinema Epicuria Oscar Gala,
• Sonoma, CA Film and Television - The Hitchhiker (Lead), Student Film, Huntsville High School, 1973 The Bus Ride, Janssen Pharmaceuticals Commercial, produced by FVS Media,
• Bite My Ass (Extra - Zombie), SFSU,
• I, Detective Court TV series (recurring improv roles in 11 episodes dramatizing true crimes, playing killers, victims, and witnesses), Michael Hoff Productions,
• The Californians (Featured Extra), feature film with Noah Wyle, Warner Brothers, Marin County, CA, September,
• Reliable Date Commercial for The Pioneer newspaper (Wife-female lead), Big Kid Productions, Hayward, CA, March,

2002

• American Pie 3 (Featured Extra), feature film with Eugene Levy, Paramount Pictures, Half Moon Bay, CA, February,

• Swing (Featured Extra), independent feature film, San Francisco, CA, December,

• Finding Your Voice Voiceover Workshop, Sam Paris, Voicetrax, San Francisco, CA, April,

• Songwriting lessons, private study with Penny Framstad,

• Musical Theatre Workshops, City College of San Francisco, Summer,

• Beginning Voiceover Class, Voicetrax, Sausalito, CA, September,

• Beginning Narration Class, Voicetrax, Sausalito, CA, November, 2002

2001

Casting Workshop, Beau Bonneau, December,

Songwriting workshops with Bonnie Hayes, February,

2000

• Theatre and Opera Student plays (played Guinevere and Moll Flanders), Huntsville High School, 1975-1976
• Birmingham Christmas Pageant (chorus), Shades Mountain Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL,
• 1983 Little Shop of Horrors (ensemble-prostitute), Hillbarn Theatre, Foster City, CA,
• Hillbarn Theatre, directed by Christopher Jenkins Lettice and Lovage (ensemble featured tourist), Foster City, CA,
• (Co-Star stepmother, music exec), directed by Monica Maclean (student of Lee Strasberg) Badfish
• Studio Z, San Francisco, CA, and City Lights Theatre Company, San Jose, CA, written and directed by Jeremy Lipps Plump Jack (chorus featured soloist),
• City College Summer Opera, World Premiere, July, 2002, San Francisco, CA, composed by Gordon Getty and directed by David Parr The Sound of Music (ensemble-nun, party guest),
• Pacifica Spindrift Players, Pacifica, CA Amahl and the Night Visitors (ensemble-shepherdess), directed by Harriet Page,
• Goat Hall Productions, San Francisco, CA The Secret Garden (Claire Holmes/Mrs. Winthrop), directed by Barbara Cannon,

1990-92 Co-director, Youth Choir (Godspell),
1991-92, First Christian Church, Nashville, TN Lead singer/ soloist, 1979 to present, with country, rock/pop, wedding, and gospel bands;
Church choir member and frequent soloist for services and weddings Bread and Roses performing artist (charitable organization founded by Mimi Farina to bring music to the homeless, disabled, or otherwise disadvantaged) Arts Education: Group and Private Dance Lessons (Ballet, Jazz, and Tap), Huntsville, AL, Irene Jones Studio of Dance,
1993 Erotic Dance Workshop, New York Open Center, New York, NY,

1993 Arts Therapy Workshop, New School for Social Research, New York, NY,

1993-94 Classical Singing Technique, Birmingham, AL, and Deal, NJ, 1985-95 Blue Bear School of American Music, Jazz Singing, San Francisco, CA,

1999 Speech Level Singing, Belmont, CA,

1999-present Acting for Singers, Learning Annex, January, 1996 Musical Theatre Workshop, Ed Spitzberg, Hillbarn Theatre, May,

1980-81 Teacher and Soloist, Salvation Army Home for Unwed Mothers, Birmingham, AL, 1984-87 Teacher and Soloist, Nashville Juvenile Detention Home,

1987-90 Piano teacher, beginning students,

1964-72 Classical Piano Study, Huntsville, AL, 1967-1977 (Finalist, State Competition) Clarinetist, Junior High and High School Bands, Huntsville, AL,

1969-75 Deborah Hay Dance Workshop, Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY,