Wild Horses at New Jersey Repertory Company

Estelle Bajou is a French-American, Drama Desk Award-nominated actor and composer, raised in a furniture factory town in the mountains of NC. Having traveled across North, Central, and South America, Europe, and the Middle East for projects, she now lives in the Bronx. At age nineteen she earned a BA in Theatre and Creative Writing from Bard College at Simon's Rock, where she received two Division of the Arts Awards, the merit-based Hutchins Scholarship, and Honors on her thesis, a historically-based screenplay set in 19th century Mexico. She then made the big move to New York City and earned an MFA in Acting from The New School for Drama where she received a merit-based scholarship all three years. As an actor, she's worked extensively, both across the U.S. and internationally, from Spielberg's The Post to Broadway (Once) to HBO (Boardwalk Empire), Greece to Venezuela to Iraqi Kurdistan, the Edinburgh Fringe to the Actors Studio. She's been part of film, television, and theater productions that have gone on to award nominations and wins, as well as critical acclaim. She's a proud union member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. As a musician, she's played and sung with numerous bands, from parlor rock to Slavic punk to acoustic folk, on streets and stages across four continents. In 2012, she began making music for Film (Occupy Texas, Starring Austin Pendleton) and TV (Ken Burns' Prohibition), and scoring Feature Films (Fireworkers, Beneath Disheveled Stars) and Theater productions. In 2015 she put out her first record, Songs With Words. In 2016, she was a Drama Desk-nominee for Outstanding Music in a Play alongside such notable composers as Pulitzer and Tony-winner Tom Kitt, and Oscar-nominee Philip Glass. Broadway: Once (Actor/Violinist, First National Tour). TV: Boardwalk Empire (Actor, HBO); Ken Burns' Prohibition (Musician, PBS). Feature Film: The Post (Actor/Violinist); Fireworkers (Composer); Chaplin of the Mountains (Actor, Set/Filmed in Iraq); subHysteria (Actor/Musician, Improvised Film); Beneath Disheveled Stars (Composer). Shorts: Starring Austin Pendleton (Composer); Lullaby for Ray (Actor/Co-Composer, Best Short: Toronto Independent Film Fest). Off-Broadway/Regional Theater: The Jag (Actor, NJ Rep/Shadowland); Charles Mee's Soot and Spit (Actor/Violinist, The New Ohio); The Night Alive (Actor/Composer, Shadowland); Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Composer/Ensemble, One Year Lease/59E59/Edinburgh Fringe); Kushner's Mother Courage (Actor: Eilif/Violinist, Harold Clurman Lab); pool (no water) (Actor/Composer, One Year Lease/PS122/A.R.T.-Boston/Barrow Street); Laura Eason's The Undeniable Sound of Right Now (Actor, Rattlestick/Rising Phoenix Rep.); David Adjmi's Marie Antoinette (Actor: Marie Antoinette, The New School for Drama); The City Beneath (Actor, LaMaMa ETC); Ixomia (Actor, HERE Arts); Bryony Lavery's Stockholm, Skin Tight, What We Know (Composer, One Year Lease/59E59). www.estellebajou.com