Mary Beth Eversole
Mary Beth Eversole, is an actress, host, voiceover artist, musician, content creator, and philanthropist. Her current projects include “Invisible Wounds”, a tv series she wrote and is producing, about the inner workings of trauma and its after effects. She is producer and host of the YouTube show Allergy Actress Cooking, which addresses, in a light hearted and quirky way, the perils of living, performing, and cooking with severe food allergies. Upcoming roles include the lead in the 25 minute short film “The Best of Intentions” written by Joshua Macmillan. Mary Beth has performed on theater stages as an actress since she was very young and more recently in film and television. She currently is represented by Commercial Talent Agency in Los Angeles for commercial and voiceover, Big Fish Agency in Denver for theatrical, commercial, print and voice over, and Phirgun Mair in New Mexico for theatrical, commercial, and print. Recent projects include a recurring role in the scripted podcast “Soul Full of It” created by former OWN executive producers Corny Kohl and Jill Barancik who are now co-creators at Cult Favorite Media; a guest star role on Lifetime Movie Network’s “My Crazy Ex”; a starring role in the two time Best Feature Film winner “Glimpse” directed by Arnon Shorr, now on Amazon; two multiple award winning short films directed by Brad Etter, one that addresses the realities of bullying called “Morning Announcements”, and one that addresses the need to listen to your authentic self called “Me + You”. The latter film was a Cannes Film Festival selection. Other recent roles include the Musical Theater Teacher in the HUB network’s “Parents Just Don’t Understand” hosted by Joey Fatone and several short film leads including Zee in “Snacktime” written by Holly Stanford-Brown, Amanda in “Over? Over!”, Mrs. Lee in “The Way”, Jennifer in “The Treehouse”, the Mother in “Homeless”, Natasha in “No Soliciting”, and Amy in “All’s Well” a comedic webisode. She also works in animated films, games, audiobooks and industrial voiceover and performed for 2 years with the Los Angeles based sketch comedy troupe Hilarity Over Therapy.
Ms. Eversole currently studies from KC Clyde at the Clyde Bernardy Acting Studio in North Hollywood, CA with former LA instruction coming from the Speiser/Sturges acting studio under the tutelage of Aaron Speiser. She studied improv at the Masters Level at Mocksides Studios in Denver and just finished the first level of improv at The Groundlings in LA.Voiceover training began at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts with Brian Shae and continued from there with Susan Berkley of The Great Voice Company. Currently Ms. Eversole coaches with celebrity voiceover artist Lori Alan. Mary Beth gets her commercial training from Killian McHugh of Killian’s Commercial Workshop in LA. Her earprompter training is with Paul Rohrer of Rohrering Success and teleprompter training is with David Dalton at Mocksides Studios. Mary Beth holds a Bachelor of Music degree with an emphasis in vocal performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from Colorado State University. She has performed with many theater companies throughout Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and in Europe including Fort Collins Children’s Theater, Up in Lights Productions, Starlight Theater, Theater in the Park, Musical Theater Heritage, Front Range Music Theatre, The Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Fort Collins, Colorado State Opera Theater, The American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, Loveland Opera Theatre, Bethesda Music Festival, Emerald City Opera, and Colorado State Opera Theater. Ms. Eversole also had the pleasure of being an opera apprentice artist with two companies, Opera Fort Collins in 2009-2010 and Emerald City Opera in Summer 2010.
Along with performing on the stage and screen, Ms. Eversole works on many philanthropic endeavors. Mary Beth is passionate about bringing awareness about healthy eating and food allergy acceptance. She is currently in the process of collaborating with several other food awareness groups around the country to promote healthy eating and food allergy safety through her cooking show Allergy Actress Cooking. Along with bringing awareness to food health, Ms. Eversole has begun the social media movements #FaceYourTrauma and #HealYourNarrative to accompany the tv series she has written about trauma, the way people cope with it, and how they heal from it. She aims to reach as wide an audience as possible with this project to help change the conversation surrounding trauma and how we heal from it as well as providing a message of hope that You are Not Alone. Ms. Eversole also regularly donates her performing time and lesson packages to charity and silent auction events in LA that raise awareness and funds for animal rights and the homeless crisis in America. Mary Beth has donated her time and expertise to several charities that help rescue animals, including the No To Dog Meat campaign, She has also created homeless care packages, with donations of supplies given by her hometown church in Kansas City, that she regularly hands out to those in need while she is driving around Los Angeles.
In 2011, she performed for a fundraiser for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer and in 2010 she created and performed in a benefit recital, in both Colorado and Kansas City, to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Another recent benefit recital in 2012 raised funds for a doctoral candidate researching hope and positive psychology and their impact in the public education system. Ms. Eversole maintains a voice and piano studio out of her home and online in addition to her performing career. In her free time, Ms. Eversole enjoys reading, watching movies, cooking, yoga, HIIT training, pilates and running.
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