Rhonda Starr
- Director
- Additional Crew
- Actress
Rhonda Starr was born Rhonda Lynn Hatton in Warren, Ohio on April 6, 1978 to a Hopi mother and German/English father. She began musical training and was writing and playing keyboard at age seven while also showing an avid interest in photography and filmography. Her first "feature" was recorded on a home video camera and included parodied commercials and handwritten credits. With her 35mm camera in hand, Rhonda traveled and photographed landscapes across the U.S. with her parents until the age of 17. Some of her favorite sights include Lake Powell, Meteor Crater, the Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, Devil's Tower and Las Vegas. Rhonda's grandfather, the late Chief Edmund Nequatewa, was of the One Horned Society, the highest order of Snake Priests as well as a published historian, multi-skilled artisan and art facilitator for the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. Immediately after graduating high school in 1996, Rhonda adopted a nomadic and often chaotic lifestyle in pursuit of adventure and worked in many interesting fields including an interment coordinator at a cemetery and as a patient care technician for a major university teaching hospital. At the age of 30, Rhonda met Josh Maldonado, and the two quickly combined their multiple talents for television and film in Josh's company, Doorway Productions. Besides directing, Rhonda played "Chloe the Biker" in the CW Channel's "The Interviewers" (yet never rode her motorcycle onto the set) and acted as the intellectual yet curious and cheeky co-host. She is also an experienced journalist, book editor and has performed V.O. work for commercials. Besides natural landscapes, she is skilled in boudoir, fetish and fantasy photography.