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RONA

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Rona Bernadette Arrogancia is an award-winning Filipinx-Chinese actor, director, and producer. Born in Daly City, raised in the Bay Area Peninsula, Rona grew up going to Blockbuster with her parents, running down the aisles to find her next favorite movie. Her parents would choose one, and she would choose one. Movie nights is where her lifelong love of visual storytelling began.

As she grew older, she performed in her elementary school’s band playing the alto saxophone and singing in choir class. In high school, she performed in her first play West Wing Follies and her first musical West Side Story at Riordan High School in San Francisco. It was her early years on stage that became the foundation of her craft.

With award-winning credits across film and theatre, Rona is known not only for the intensity and authenticity she brings to her roles, but also for her professionalism and collaborative spirit. She approaches every project with heart, focus, and a deep respect for the ensemble—committed to telling bold stories with honesty.

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PROJECTS

FILM/TV

After surviving a brutal massacre carried out by a ruthless land baron, a wounded young woman forces a final reckoning with the men who tried took everything away.
When her younger sister unexpectedly arrives and “pays for an hour” just to talk, a woman working in a hotel room is forced to confront the shame, secrets, and love she’s been running from.
After the passing of her sister, a young woman grapples with grief and what happens after someone you love passes away.
Desperate to preserve her fading connection to her beloved mother, a grieving young woman attempts to uphold a cherished family tradition.
The Jacket, by Cheryl Bealer-Wynton: After discovering a jacket left at his blowout high school party, a 20-something guy goes in search of the girl who left it there and finally learns how to adult in the process.

PROJECTS

THEATRE

Catherine has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert. When he dies she has more than grief to deal with: There’s her estranged sister, Claire, and Hal, a former student of her father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind. And a further problem: How much of her father’s madness – or genius – will Catherine inherit?
When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be easy. But as she befriends a group of charismatic nerds all committed to becoming the next champion, she discovers that there‘s more to this art form than playing pretend.
Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. Men on Boats is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River.
A fortune-seeking man, Petruchio, marries and mentally "tames" a headstrong, sharp-tongued woman, Katherine, in a battle of wills that forces her into the role of an obedient wife to allow her younger sister to marry.