Yvette Dudley-Neuman
- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Yvette Dudley-Neuman is an actor, singer, voice over artist and
improviser. She trained with the world-renowned theatre-sports and
improvisational coach, Keith Johnstone at the Loose Moose Theatre
Company. Yvette has also traveled extensively. She toured
internationally for a year, as a soloist, with the group, "Up With
People." On this world tour, Yvette traveled with two hundred and fifty
other college students from twenty five-different nations as part of a
two-hour show, which promoted world peace and understanding. After the
tour, returned home and trained at the University of Calgary, where she
obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting and a Bachelor of
Education degree. Yvette was the Artistic Director of All Nations
Theatre Company for several years and then was employed as a Drama
Teacher. Even while teaching she continued to sing, act, direct and
write. She decided to leave her teaching career to pursue a full time
career in the Arts. Yvette enjoyed a three-year run in the box office
smash hit Tony n' Tina's Wedding. While with the show she played the
roles of Celeste Ramono, Sister Terri, Aunt Rose and Nona Nunzio!
Besides acting and singing, she writes plays, poems, lyrics and
melodies. She has recorded two of her songs and is working on the
completion of a demo album. Yvette also formed a collective, wrote the
comedy show, Detention Divas and has toured the show extensively in
Western Canada for five years. "Titillations" is her first solo work as
a playwright and she is thrilled to have excerpts of the work debut in
New York. Her film debut was in the movie, Rat Race as one of the Crazy
Lucys. She currently resides in the Vancouver area with her husband and
two dogs. She is pursuing a career in film.