Mary Gannon Graham

Cartoon voices, upper class British, Cockney, Irish, French, Eastern European, Southern Belle, Deep South, New York , Brooklyn

As a young child spending many hours creating "shows" for our parents and directing neighborhood kids in my theatrical schemes, I also learned that I had a voice that can imitate and recreate accents and sounds. I loved watching cartoons and trying on the characters voices to see if I could do them, and I could! I have been a singer all of my life as well and continue to sing in local bands and on the stage. I has been performing in the theatre as an actor and singer for over 37 years, in the Nothern California Bay Area, New York and Los Angeles, and has also appeared both on film, T.V. and radio. I am primarily a Stage actress and singer, but have truely enjoyed doing voice over work off and on for years. I have worked with Cinnabar Theatre of Petaluma, Sonoma County Repertory Theatre (The Rep) of Sebastopol, Actors Theatre, The Santa Rosa Players, the Santa Rosa Junior Colleges Summer Repertory Theatre, 6th Street Playhouse of Santa Rosa, Theatre Works of Palo Alto, the Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland, Oregon, and with The Heritage Musical Theatre Company in Sebastopol at Main Stage West. Some favorite roles include, Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir, at 6th Street Playhouse, with Seb-Shakes in Ives Park as Titania in Peaseblossom , Woody Guthrie’s American Song, at Cinnabar and Main Stage West, Shirley in Shirley Valentine, Dottie in We Heart U Nosferatu, Patsy in Always, Patsy Cline, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Dorine in Tartuffe, Elizabeth Sandry in The Grapes of Wrath, Lucille in Psychopathia Sexualis, Gotchling in A Bright Room Called Day, Hedda in Hedda Gabler, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Titania in Midsummer Nights Dream and Gertrude in Hamlet. In addition to her life in the theatre, Mary works as a teaching artist, teaching acting and singing to other abled adults, and as an acting instructor for several other arts enrichment programs throughout Sonoma County, Ca. I have studied with Thelma Dare Ahner in Calif., HB Sudio in NYC, and with Eric Morris of Los Angeles. Professional audio recording and editing equiptment and software.