ELLEY-RAY HENNESSY
www.elleyray.com
Presenting:
VOICE ACTING — Exercises to Free Your Voice … And Your Mind
As a veteran voice actor and coach, I use my cumulative 30+ years of experience in the voice over industry to help guide you to better understand your vocal instrument. This presentation will help you strengthen and free it, and at the same time help you to think outside the box. It’s my belief that fear and lack of risk-taking cause us to hold back on our real potential in all aspects of voice. Find your inner storyteller, bring love and joy to the script, and be willing to take risks to set yourself apart from other talent in the industry.
Career training level: all
About Elley-Ray Hennessy:
With more than 30 years of international experience as an award-winning actor, writer, director and educator, Elley-Ray Hennessy has lent her expertise to film, television, radio, theatre and animation.
Elley-Ray has been called “The Queen of Voice” for her work in many animation movies, including Babar, Blizzard, Z-Baw, and Alley of Dreams, as well as hundreds of animated series, including: award-winning Roli Polie Olie, Care Bears, Cat in the Hat, My Big Friend, Alf, Franklin the Turtle, Miss Spider, and Bakugan. She is writing her third animation feature film, Papagiorgio the Great, for Imagination Films, and she has directed two animation features for Imicine films in Mexico.
Elley-Ray has voiced thousands of commercials for clients such as McDonalds, Bell Canada, Toyota, Sears, Lubriderm, Swiss Chalet, Dell, and Nicorette. She has been nominated Best Voice Actor for the Actra Awards as Madame Liezel in Di-Gata Defenders. As a director, she has been nominated for the Pauline McGibbon Award; she was a recipient of the esteemed Ken McDougal Award. She has received six Best Actress nominations for Canada’s Dora, Gemini and Jesse Awards, and she has also juried the Gemini Awards six times, as well as the Dora Awards and the Emmy Awards.
Elley-Ray recently performed as Judy Garland in the Judy Monologues, and she is filming Naked Hamilton. She also released a new audio interview book and has been hired to teach voice at the University of Windsor.
