RECENT PRESS & PUBLICITY

Tara has been interviewed and featured in numerous magazines, websites and publications, including those below.

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INTERVIEW EXCERPT WITH AUSTRALIA'S DAVID PRIOL
Some people bring light into any room they enter, and the truly effervescent Tara Platt adds about 150 watts to every room she enters. Perhaps growing up in a household continually moving from city to city gave Tara a head start communicating with people and being able to mix it up in life. Given that she has been constantly performing since age nine and possesses an independent streak that drives her life choices, then you'll soon realize that I am only touching the very edges of her career in this interview. I may not even get the chance to mention that she studied at Rutgers or the London Academy of Theatre, or appeared at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. Yet, I know that her charm and her boundless energy will soon have you enchanted and searching for the latest TV guide to check her out and see what show you can see her in next.... 

DAVID: You have done almost everything from voice-over work for anime, videogames, animations, as well as appearing in music videos, starring on stage, in TV shows and several movie roles: written numerous scripts and worked as a producer; are a multi-talented dancer; and just for a change of pace you are a certified Feng Shui Consultant and (quickly catching my breath) I wondered which of your many hats you enjoy wearing the most and why?

TARA: Whew. It sounds so impressive when you say it. (Giggle) No, really, I am very excited to be able to explore the many things that interest me. I thank my lucky stars I had such supportive parents growing up, so that I was able to try things out and see what I liked. I like to compare working in film, TV, voice over and theatre with the idea of the differences between artists like sculptors and painters. They are each practicing their art, and their art can be about the same subject, but they each get to focus on a different way of telling the story thats what it feels like to me when I get to act in different fields, it is kind of like working with a different medium to express the same concept. I get to use different parts of myself, which is thrilling. I would say that of all the things I have done, hands down I enjoy acting (whatever the medium) as my favorite expression. I have enjoyed and still enjoy the work I have done/the training/my studies in painting, dance, production, writing and even Feng Shui, but by far, getting to act is what gets me out of bed each morning. 

DAVID: In those very rare quieter moments, when youre not working on a dozen different projects at once, what else brings joy to your life?

TARA: I am an avid reader. I love books. I love a good book, a soft couch and a few hours to live in the book-world. It is very peaceful for me. It is different for me, of course, from doing my yoga practice or taking a long walk, but rejuvenating to my soul all the same.

DAVID: You have trained very hard over the years in areas as diverse as cold readings, stage combat, improv, circus clowning, song and dance and I wondered if you could tell us what was the toughest moment you encountered doing the hard yards?

TARA: Gosh. Well I think that each area presents its own pitfalls and each has something to glean from making mistakes and then jumping back in and trying it again. I guess it really is about tenacity, getting back up when things feel like they are too difficult to get on with it. Sometimes it is the littlest things which can really throw you for a loop. But everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses and they change as we grow. You develop a kind of flexibility. When I was younger, the thought of having to get up and sing in front of people threw me into a panic, but I pressed myself until I was able to do it. You know, I think sometimes as children we can be so malleable that often someones offhanded comment can stick us to the bone and ride with us for a very long time. I think when I was little someone told me that I couldnt sing so that was a painful little weight I carried. You have to take those thorns and work them out.

DAVID: Thank you for sharing a little part of yourself with our readers and I wondered if there were any final thoughts which you would care to share with your fans across the globe?

TARA: My thanks to you. Honestly actors wouldn't be doing what we do without people to watch, listen and react. I thank each of my fans for honoring me with their attention, because otherwise I would be the tree in the forest that no one heard.

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TARA PLATT CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT FOR H2OM WATER WITH INTENTION - Check out the great photo of Tara with eco and health conscious water H2Om

BACKSLASH TO BE FIRST CULT HORROR FILM RELEASED UNDER BELOW THE RADAR LABEL - ActiveAnime - NEW YORK, NY Central Park Media announced that the black comedy horror film BACKSLASH is slated to be released under its newly created Below The Radar label this spring. This Kevin Campbell film, features the talents of Tara Platt who is best known for her voiceover work as Temari in Naruto, one of the Cartoon Network's highest-rated anime shows. The DVD hits the streets on May 8, 2007.

TARA PLATT COMIC-CON 2006 NARUTO PARTY INTERVIEW - IGN.COM, Mark Bozon - Along with the awesome Naruto Preview Party we attended, publisher D3 was kind enought to give IGN a chance to talk directly with voice actors Tara Platt (the voice of Temari) and Yuri Lowenthal (voice of Sasuke) about Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2, as well as the world of voice acting.

TARA PLATT IN INDIE FEATURES, ON NARUTO AND ANIME CONVENTIONS -  Word Press - Having just been seen opposite Scrubs Donald Faison on the half-hour comedy series The Playbook on Spike TV, actress Tara Platt is once again acting on the big screen in two upcoming indie features.  

PRESS PHOTO: Wireimage - Tara Platt pictured alongside fellow cast member Yuri Lowenthal at Red Carpet Premiere of Jaime Gomez's IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE (A.K.A PISSED) at the Hollywood Highlands.

TARA PLATT STARRING AS CLARA SCHUMANN AT WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL - PR Web - Slingshot PR is proud to announce that Tara Platt just wrapped indie horror film, “Death's Door” followed by recent co-star spot on "Charmed," and will play Clara Schumann at the Disney Concert Hall in January.

FEMME FATALES MAGAZINE - NOV2004 Issue;  Volume 13, Nomber 8 (interview/ photos)
That straw-filled monster is on the rampage again in York Entertainment's Scarecrow Gone Wild, and along for the ride is Tara Platt, who plays Lynn, a high-school girl who has a watery meeting with the scarecrow.  "Lynn is great and a bit of a tomboy," describes Platt. "She's one of those girls who wants fun all the time. She's definitely the sport of the girls. If they were the Spice Girs she'd be Sporty Spice." When the soul of a young man harrased by a trio of high school jocks is transferred into a scarecrow, the demonic creature seeks revenge and the bodies start piling up. After a sunbathing session, Lynn goes for a dip in the ocean and doesn't come back. "I have an ever-so-glorious death," Platt says. "I was hoping for a bloodier one, but I'm the one who takes it in the ocean. You think he'd float away or something with all that straw. Filming was very difficult because we were shooting in the ocean and it was really cold. We were in the water for 45 minutes or so and I'm in a little bikini -- because that's what girls wear on the beach. It was cold, cold, cold, and toward the end I was getting a little hypothermic and the lifeguard had to help me get out of the water and heat me up in the trailer with a little hair dryer. It was very cute and they all took care of me."

MAKING IT IN HOLLYWOOD: CHELSEA'S TARA PLATT ADDS PRODUCER TO HER RESUME  Heritage Newspapers - Maria Sprow -If Hollywood is a dog-eat-dog world, former Chelsea resident Tara Platt is determined to swallow as much as she can chew. Platt, an actor, recently added the title "producer" to her resume. She and her partner, Yuri Lowenthal, together have founded Monkey Kingdom Productions.