Photo by Jeff Rubino
Hi! I’m Tessa, and here’s a little bit of what I do:
Podcast Writer/Producer
I’m a writer and producer at the Webby-winning, Gotham/Variety Award-winning, Kennedy Center ‘Next 50’ kids’ podcast Girl Tales. I produced the ‘Dear Potato’ series for Pinna, and wrote for Signal Award-winner The Ten News. I also mastered audio for the Scottish Wanderings Podcast.
Voiceover Artist
I voice commercials for companies like Kohl’s, Hendrick’s, Smirnoff, Etsy, SquareSpace, AIG, American Express, and more. You can hear my voice in the pilot episode of Rabbit Hole, lustily listened to by Kiefer Sutherland. Some of my favorite character work includes June the Moon in Casper Sleep Channel, a whole buncha NPCs in Goat Simulator 3, and Maeve, guiding players through the game Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain. Here’s my VO reel.
Filmmaker
For the Home Alone Film Challenge, I created several shorts. Always Shoot Twice and West of the Shade both won Best Film & Best Directing. My personal favorite, A Slice of Revenge, did not win anything.
As an actor, I appear in the short films Anxiety, Ladies Room and Pasta.
Theater Maker
TENTACLES is my award-winning, critically-acclaimed one-act play about Tentacle Porn. Life in Plastic is my award-winning autobiographical solo show about Barbie. I write and perform on Magnet Theater sketch team Milwaukee, too.
And More…
I teach Public Speaking at BMCC and dream of building a small cottage with my tiny spouse. I also like taking photographs, which you can see here. I even make linocut prints sometimes!