BETSY BEARD

AFTRA • SAG • AEA

Hair: Strawberry Blonde
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'4"
Size: 12

520.349.0943
BetsyBeard@hotmail.com






VOICE OVER DEMO

THEATRE

 

 

On Broadway

 

 

Equus

Jill Mason

Starring Richard Burton & Anthony Perkins

Dracula

Miss Lucy

Starring Frank Langella

Shenandoah

Jenny (u/s)

Starring John Cullum

 

 

 

Plays & Musicals

 

 

Cabaret

Fraülein Schneider

Phoenix Theatre – Winner Arizoni Award for Best Supporting Actress

Mornings At Seven

Aaronetta

Phoenix Theatre – Nominated Arizoni Award for Best Supporting Actress

The White Garden, An Historical Fantasy

Violet Trefusis

Cabaret Theatre, Temple of Music & Art

Tucson

Haven, A New Musical

Marte

Gindi Auditorium, LA

Oklahoma

Laurey

First National Tour Starring Harve Presnell & Mary Wickes, choreographed by Agnes DeMille

Polly

Polly

Chelsea Theatre, Brooklyn

Antigone

Ismene

Equity Library Theatre Lincoln Center

The Duenna

Clara

Baltimore Center Stage

AMERIKA

Lead Singer

Garden Theatre, Kennedy Center

Side by Side by Sondheim

Lead Singer

Falmouth Playhouse Starring Arlene Francis

 

 

 

FILM

 

 

Network

Page/Tour Guide

Feature Film

 

 

 

TELEVISION

 

 

Legend

Mrs. Brull

UPN Series Starring Richard Dean Anderson

Stranger in My Home

Lauretta

CBS Movie of the Week Starring Veronica Hamel

Once Upon a Brothers Grimm

Wood Nymph

Thanksgiving Special with Dean Jones & Paul Sand

The Doctors

Lucinda Barrett

NBC Daytime Serial

 

 

 

Silkscreen

Nurse Becker

NBC Movie of the Week Starring Jennie Garth

 

 

 

OPERAS

 

 

Otello

Emilia

Tulsa Opera, Starring James McCracken

La Traviata

Annina

Tulsa Opera, Starring Beverly Sills

Trouble in Tahiti

Dinah

Tulsa Philharmonic, Skitch Henderson Conducting

 

 

 

COMMERCIALS

 

 

Such 70’s gems as Excedrin “What do you take for pain?” and Maxwell House “Sometimes I just want to strangle my coffeepot!”

 

Too numerous to list. No Current Conflicts

 

 

 

VOICE OVER

 

 

One of a very small
group of female
announcers who
broke into voice over
in the 70’s

Hundreds of
radio and TV
spots

Network, spot, and demos

 

 

 

TRAINING

 

 

Degree in Voice from the University of Arizona

On stage from earliest youth in opera and community theatre

Also training in various body therapies

Degree in Psychology from the University of Tulsa

 

 

 

SPECIAL SKILLS

 

 

Proficient in many languages, accents

Also a Master Shiatsu therapist

Teach voice, piano, and body awareness

Speak French, Italian, German, some Greek and Hebrew

Stage Manager

Writer – grants, stories, essays and promotional copy