HEADSHOTS
Photographs by Vanie Poyey
Photographs by Jeff Lorch
Photographs by Isabella McNeill
THEATRICAL RESUME
SAG-AFTRA : : AEA| HEIGHT: 5’7” | WEIGHT: 120| EYES: Hazel| HAIR: Brown
THEATRICAL AGENT: Littman Talent Group - Danita Florance: (404) 660-6988
MANAGER: Jackson Entertainment - Cheryl Jackson: (213) 479-3400
VOICE-OVER: Solid Talent - Vanessa Gilbert: (818) 710-9904
FILM
Blink | Supporting | Michael Apted, Director
A One Time Thing | Supporting | Ind. Feature, Karl Fink, Director
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey | Supporting | Peter Hewitt, Director
The Housekeeper (short) | Lead | FXM Shorts, Nancy Keystone, Director
The Moment I Was Alone (short) | Supporting| Kellen Gibbs, Director
Grams (AFI short) | Lead| Douglas Cushnie, Director
The Frog Wife (AFI short) | Xindi Lou, Director
The Passage (AFI short) | Jeseung Woo, Director
Rosethorn (short) | Supporting| Aditya Patwardhan, Director
Hair (short) | Lead | Juliet Devette, Director
TELEVISION
Veep | Co-star | HBO
The Jury (pilot) | Recurring| ABC/ Carol Mendelsohn, Exec. Producer / Neil Burger, Director
The Comeback Kid (pilot ) | Principal| Angie Browne, Director
Arresting Behavior | Co-star| HBO Ind./ABC
Carol & Company | Co-star| Disney
It's Garry Shandling's Show | Co-star | Showtime/Fox
Raising Miranda | Co-star| CBS
STAGE
WORK WITH CRITICAL MASS PERFORMANCE GROUP:
Ameryka | Many Polish Ladies | Kirk Douglas Theatre
Untitled Communion | Sparkle Person | REDCAT
Alcestis | Ensemble | Boston Court / Getty Villa
Apollo 1, 2 & 3 | Ensemble - 20+ roles | Portland Center Stage
Apollo Part 1: Lebensraum | Ensemble | Kirk Douglas Theatre
365 Plays/365 Days | Ensemble | Angels Gate Theatre
Antigone | Antigone | Actor's Gang Theatre
The Akhmatova Project | Anna Akhmatova | Actor's Gang Theatre
Bread | Ensemble | CMPG & Cornerstone: Creative Seeds
The Rover | Angellica Bianca | Site-specific
-OTHER STAGE WORK-
Indecent | Vera | Denver Center Theatre
How to Disappear Completely... | Ensemble | N. Keystone / Boston Court
Frauleins in Underwear | Cabaret | Ron Sossi / Odyssey
A Cult of Isis | High Priestess | Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble
Low Level Panic | Celia | Nancy Keystone, Director
Borderlands | Ellen | 2nd Stage| Nancy Keystone, Director
Why We Have a Body | Mary | Tiffany Theatre
Red, Black and Ignorant | Lover | LATC
ART
Multiple pieces by legendary video artist, Bill Viola:
The Quintet of Remembrance | Metropolitan Museum of Art
Going Forth By Day | Guggenheim
Observance | Getty
The Quintet of the Astonished | National Gallery, London
Mater | The Passion Series
The Chapel of Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures | London 6/2013
TRAINING & EDUCATION
University: UCLA - BA, Theatre Arts, Magna Cum Laude
Acting: Kimberly Jentzen, Mel Shapiro, Jennifer Rountree, LA / Anthony Abeson, NY
Comedy: Carol Burnett
Voice: Jennifer Rountree
Singing: Elizabeth Prescott, LA / Joyce Hall, NY
Commercials: Killian's Workshop
SPECIAL SKILLS
Singing, piano, voice-over announce/character voices
Dialects: American and British regional accents, French, German, Polish, South African, Russian, etc.
Making things grow out of the ground, Sewing - anything, Calligraphy, Mothering (award-winning).
BIO
Valerie Spencer is a 2nd generation LA native with Hollywood-infused DNA: one grandfather wrote songs for Roy Rogers’ cowboy band The Sons of the Pioneers, and the other wrote for radio and TV before being Blacklisted during the dreaded Red Scare. A UCLA theater arts grad, Valerie has been a member of Critical Mass Performance Group since 1989, appearing in multiple original works at venues such as the Kirk Douglas Theater, South Coast Rep, the Getty Villa, PlayMakers Rep and Portland Center Stage. Films include Blink (dir. Michael Apted), Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, the indie feature A One Time Thing, and the FXM short, The Housekeeper. Recent short films include The Moment I Was Alone (nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Idyllwild Film Fest), Rosethorn, and Hair. Recent TV: The Jury, a 2016 ABC pilot Executive Produced by Carol Mendelsohn (fingers crossed for a pickup, because Valerie's role is recurring!) and The Comeback Kid, a single-camera drama pilot. Appearing alongside performance artist John Fleck in several groundbreaking pieces by video artist Bill Viola, Valerie has had the surreal experience of seeing her image hanging at the Met and the Guggenheim. During her 22-year voice-over career, she’s hawked avocados, waxed rhapsodic about naked mole rats for Disney, portrayed one of the Desperate Housewives in the slightly insane video game, and looped over obscenities in Bordello of Blood. She considers the two years she spent as Carol Burnett’s acting stand-in to be the best comedy training on planet Earth. Gifted with a musical ear, Valerie can cram just about any foreign dialect into her mouth, and she sings a damn fine song. An accomplished seamstress, Valerie has stitched opera costumes for Pavarotti and Domingo, Halloween costumes for her now-grown daughter, and too many pillows to count. Valerie loves working with people who share her passion for transformational storytelling, and feels called to channel her gifts in service of the co-creation of a brighter, cleaner, greener, survivable future.
THIS CANDID WORLD
One winter day while hanging out with the Coast Live Oaks in Topanga, a nearby tree tapped me on the subconscious and said, "We need to take our picture together." A few days later I returned with my daughter and her friend Grace, and did just that. Who am I to disregard the wishes of a big beautiful tree in the shape of my initial? I am sometimes goofy, other times dead-serious, but always most at home amongst the trees.
Photographs by Grace Lewis