Cynthia Uhrich has a broad-reaching scope of experience and knowledge in the film and acting business, ranging from Acting to Teaching to Writing, Producing, and Directing.
From 2003 to 2019, she was the owner and acting instructor of IN THE MOMENT STUDIO, located in St. Paul Minnesota. Prior to that, she resided in Los Angeles for eight years, where she augmented her Bachelor’s Degree in Theater (UW-Stevens Point) with professional training and obtained work as an actress. Highlights of her time in California include playing a Starfleet Officer for one year on the Star Trek television series “Enterprise” and a recurring role on the daytime drama “Passions.” Over the course of her career, she has performed in commercials, industrial films, and voice-overs.
She has been a guest instructor at St. Cloud University, Minneapolis Media Institute, and Minneapolis Community Technical College in the Cinema Division, where she taught directors how to work with actors. Additionally, she cast over 100 short films as the Casting Director for MCTC and independent short film projects. She is a working actress and filmmaker; in 2012 she created the non-profit IN THE MOMENT FILMS, with the mission of employing more women in the field, with an eye toward telling original stories on topics of social significance.
She has written, produced, and directed several short films: “M 4 W” a romantic comedy. Her short “Robert in the Bedroom” recently was selected from 1000 entries to screen at the 36th Annual Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. She wrote and produced “Code Green,” a film based on a true story of a young woman battling the “monster” that is her eating disorder.
She is also the co-producer and director of the dark romantic comedy "Everyone Goes in the Lake." Her films "Oh My Stars" (screenplay by Lorna Landvik) and "Misplaced Trust" (screenwriter & director) are currently on the festival circuit. All three of these films have screened at Twin Cities Film Festival and many other venues nationwide!
As a playwright, two of Cynthia’s monologues (from a memoir she’s writing) were produced and then published in “Dirty Girls Come Clean: The Anthology” Vol. I (Freshwater Press.) She garnered 3rd Place in the Wisconsin Writers Association’s Jade Ring Competition in Adult Fiction for her story “Gathering Beauty.” Smith and Kraus published the short play she co-wrote with Jennifer Tuder titled “Leaf on the Wind.” She has completed a famed Minneapolis musician’s memoir (BrownMark, from Prince's band The Revolution) published by the University of Minnesota Press, and is in bookstores and on Amazon now.
She has won or placed in several screenwriting competitions, and has recently completed co-writing two pilot screenplays adapted from novels "Sister of Grendel" with Susan Thurston and "Treason in Texas: The Jo Ann Turner Story" with Donna Marie Miller.
In April of 2023, she relocated to Arizona. IN THE MOMENT is a non-profit, fiscally sponsored by Streams of Dreams. In late 2022 she partnered with Sarah Morreim to co-produce and script promotional videos for businesses and individuals for web content and social media (Sarah Morreim Photography and Video.)
Additionally, she is the co-author of the novel “My Life in the Purple Kingdom” a memoir about famed musician BrownMark (from Prince’s band The Revolution) published in September 2020 by the University of Minnesota Press and is available on Amazon and bookstores nationwide. It was selected as one of Rolling Stone's and Kirkus Reviews "Top Music Books for 2020."