Meet Stevie
Emmy Award-winning Stevie earned the moniker 'Cartoon Queen' for her prolific
work infusing life and personality into characters on thousands of animated
productions including 'Mouse' on Reboot, 'Spydra' on Gadget Boy, 'Share Bear'
on the Carebear movies, 'Dixie' on Donkey Kong Country, 'Natsuko Fuji' on
Inuyasha, 'Gnat' on Growing Up Creepie, 'Tigrerra' on Bakugan and G.L.A.D.I.S. on Totally Spies. Stevie originated 'Whazzat Kangaroo' in
Steve Binder & Hallmark's Zoobilee Zoo.
In 2002, Stevie received an EMMY Award for voice-directing the dialogue and music for the beloved Disney classic, MADELINE, for which she also portrayed the voices of 'Miss Clavel' and 'Genevive'. Stevie served as Voice Director on Teletoon's hit show Best Ed, while voice producing 2007 Emmy Nominee Growing Up Creepie. In Los Angeles, 2009, Stevie cast & voice-directed Young Dr. Dolittle, an animated feature featuring Tom Kenney (the voice of Sponge Bob Square Pants). She then went on to cast and voice-direct Teletoon's Detour pilot, Celebutard Nation, which premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival where Stevie facilitated 400 Animators 'HOW TO DO CARTOON VOICES' in their own shows.
Vallance continues to excel in the field of ‘cartoon voice-over’ as one
of North America's most sought-after coaches. 'Tooned In! Workshops' is
Stevie's own brand of 'transformative' workshops, which has been launching
animation voice-over careers since 1995.
Stevie conducts Tooned In! Animation VO Workshops in Toronto, Vancouver, NY, LA, Calgary & Ottawa. Last fall she taught 400 Anime and Animation Fans how to do cartoon voices, at New York's giant ComicCon.
Stevie is CURRENTLY based in LA; casting
and voice directing for Executive Producer Bill Schultz (Home Plate Ent) on
animation series, Wild Grinders and Guess How Much I Love You.
Watch Stevie's etalk inteview http://bit.ly/nkDd3c
Workshop History (since 1995)
Stevie Vallance, Artistic Director of Tooned In! Workshops, has been facilitating actors in giving 'voice' to their 'personalities' for over a decade. Now, with a collective student
base of more than 800 (and rising), Stevie is thrilled to provide a 'safe' place for animation actors to 'fall on their butts', while they discover the boundaries of animation acting in a supportive, professional environment.
Founded in 1995, the first 'Finding Your Inner Toon' workshop took place in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Since then Stevie has also taught in Toronto and Los Angeles. In 2004 she presented Tooned In! - A Voice Academy, a series of sold out workshops featuring all of the many facets of voice-over including Singing, Promos & Trailers, Commercial Advertising, CD Roms and Narration.
Stevie's favorite motto: 'It beats therapy!', is now uttered by many of the grads who have been influenced by her uniquely 'transformative' techniques, and who have gone on to land roles in animated television series, feature films and multi-media.
With the 'overnight' trend in visual and audio production moving rapidly towards animation and commercial voice-over (cd roms, multimedia, web sites), Stevie is thankful that twenty-five years ago, while hitting the pavement as an 'actor in Los Angeles', she decided to take a second look at the supplemental career that once 'beat waiting tables' and which has now become her highest grossing income.
Founded in 1995, the first 'Finding Your Inner Toon' workshop took place in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Since then Stevie has also taught in Toronto and Los Angeles. In 2004 she presented Tooned In! - A Voice Academy, a series of sold out workshops featuring all of the many facets of voice-over including Singing, Promos & Trailers, Commercial Advertising, CD Roms and Narration.
Stevie's favorite motto: 'It beats therapy!', is now uttered by many of the grads who have been influenced by her uniquely 'transformative' techniques, and who have gone on to land roles in animated television series, feature films and multi-media.
With the 'overnight' trend in visual and audio production moving rapidly towards animation and commercial voice-over (cd roms, multimedia, web sites), Stevie is thankful that twenty-five years ago, while hitting the pavement as an 'actor in Los Angeles', she decided to take a second look at the supplemental career that once 'beat waiting tables' and which has now become her highest grossing income.