User:The CartoonGirl

The CartoonGirl
Blanca Vasquez, is The CartoonGirl, a Bilingual actress and voiceover artist, specializing in character voices and numerous voiceover jobs for NickJr., MTV Tr3s, promos, commercials and narrations for several teen audiobooks. Blanca has toured educational shows with writers like Carmen Rivera & Cándido Tirado, Noise/Funk writer Reg e. Gaines to name a few. Other Theater & TV/Film credits: Playwright's Horizons, Clurman Theater, 100 Centre Street. Blanca has worked as a Teaching Artist at preschools, elementary schools and even high schools. She has volunteered and participated in a number of non-profits like R.Evolución Latina, Teatro LATEA, HOLA and others. She is a proud member of the performer's union, AFTRA.

Character Voices
Cartoon/Character Voices (toddler kids, teenagers, birds, witches, Brooklyn Jewish Lady, Mean girls, Royalty, Ditzy Chick, Sick kids), Accents (English dialects: Southern U.S., New York; Spanish dialects: Neutral, South American, Dominican, Puerto Rican)

Professional Affiliations
Talent Manager: Tsu Tsu Stanton

Actor's Union: AFTRA, SAG-Eligible

Professional Affiliations: Actor's Fund of America, R.Evolución Latina, Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors

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Education and Experiences
Blanca began performing at age 10, singing in the chorus at P.S. 20 in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City where she was born and raised. She is the youngest of 5 and always proved to be a sweet, laidback, "shy and embarrassed" little girl with dreams to stay young and play forever. However, when she chose Chorus over gym class in the 5th grade, she had no idea she was in for the long run.

After giving singing a try, she also started playing the viola as part of the Music class and though it was short-lived she continued learning and singing American folk songs like "This Land is Your Land" with chorus groups throughout Junior High School, in High School and later, away at college. She was influenced by her High School Drama teacher at an all girl's catholic high school called St. Michael Academy to audition for a youth theater company called Tada! Youth Theater where she performed her first musical play. She originated the role of the B.O.T.C.H. Boss (or Bureau of Turmoil Chaos and Headaches) in the musical, B.O.T.C.H. At Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, she performed in various musical productions including A Funny Thing Happened... the Forum, Me and My Girl, and many others. She also took an interest in a handful of children's theater shows including, the Spider and the Bee, where she first discovered a very raspy voice for the role of the Spider. She became very involved in the theater club (MCCTA) and in addition, she performed in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap where she played the lead character, Molly, where she surprised herself and everyone else that she could go beyond her expectations of being that shy and embarrassed kid from the Lower East Side. When the head of the theater department attended the show, he wrote a college review and commented on "Blanca Vasquez's eyes and facial expressions as a means of punctuating dialogue". Finally, Blanca wrote a one woman show based on different stages of her life for her college thesis, which she performed for her class and recorded on cassette tape to mix the elements of what she studied for 4 and a half years.

Blanca graduated with a major in Communications with a track in Theater and Radio/TV/Film. During and after college she worked at many nonprofit arts organizations including The New 42nd Street/The New Victory Theater, The Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park and Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Inc. (JCAL). While at JCAL she took classes in singing, acting, guitar and piano. She started as Programs Assistant and was promoted to Performing Arts Director where she met tons of artists which inspired her to get back into acting. Blanca was in a 3 member Girl Group called Choyce, where they sung cover songs of R&B singers of the time and later was a part of band called Members Only.

In 2000, she got to join the Performer's Union for TV and Radio Artists, AFTRA, when she did stand in work for 100 Centre Street. Her career was only beginning. She then met an actor on a film set who introduced her to INTAR and its Monday evening improv group, where she met a couple of actors/founders of the group, Vaso de Leche Productions. With Vaso de Leche she did several productions including the youngest sister in the first "Ortiz Sisters of Mott Haven".

Later she put herself in other acting and singing classes, did student and independent films and eventually auditioned for Teatro SEA, where she worked for 7 years in lead roles for bilingual fairytale musicals for children in the 5 boroughs like Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and many others. In 2005, she studied Musical Theater at AMDA and started auditioning while working for HOLA as Member Relations. Eventually, The CartoonGirl got new headshots, stocked up her resume, signed with a wonderful manager and today she is freelancing with several agencies in both the East and West coasts for voiceover and on camera work. "It's been a journey but when I think of it, it was all worth it because the path has always there for me, no matter how hard or muddied it's been" she says. Blanca gets called in for boy voices and has voiced several TV and Radio commercials as well as audiobooks for teens and kids, toys and online games. "And the fun only continues!" she says.

Contact The CartoonGirl
For more information, visit The CartoonGirl's website at: www.TheCartoonGirl.com