Karel Sloane-Boekbinder

British, Southern, cartoon voices, cartoon animal voices

Working as a Storyteller since 1998, I have a repertoire that includes Nag the Cobra (from Riki Tiki Tavi) Anazi the Spider, The Big Bad Wolf, Bear and chipmunk (from an Iroquois creation myth.) Versatile, I have the ability to be raspy one minute and sweet the next. I am a member of NOLA Playback Theatre, a New Orleans-based improv company. Also a singer, I am a contralto and currently a member of the New Orleans-based Lloyd Daly and the Vince Michael Band. In Louisiana, I am employed as the Assistant Theatre Producer at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center. A former student of Joseph Walker, winner of a Tony Award for The River Niger, Charles Ward (one of the original Inkspots) and Jeanne Kaplan (Herbert Berkoff Studio) Sloane-Boekbinder also credits personal mentors N'Goma (a former member of the SPIRIT HOUSE MOVERS AND PLAYERS with Amiri Baraka,) Keith Roach, and Zannette Lewis as influences on her performance poetry style. Karel Sloane-Boekbinder is an award winning multi-disciplinary artist with over 29 years artistic experience and 13 years teaching experience. Her disciplines include theater, writing, film/video and visual art. Sloane-Boekbinder (also credited as Karyl Sloan) is SAG eligible and recently appeared in Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna as “Herb’s Wife.” Sloane-Boekbinder has performed nationally and internationally for stage (indoor and outdoor,) film, video and radio, worked in professional theater companies, including New England Academy of Theater, Captain New York/David Niles Productions, YALE Children's Theater, The Cassandra Project (Maine), Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Children's Theater, New England Academy of Theater, The Jefferson Performing Arts Society, The Womens International League for Peace and Freedom and The International Festival of Arts and Ideas.