VALERIE RENÉ SHEPPARD    SAG

Dynamic

Versatile

Thinking Actress

VOICE OVER

The Wheels on the Bus

Mentors for Youth PSA

Unity of Tustin Ticket Line

Guest Star (Cat)

Lead (Self)

Lead (Announcer)

Our Happy Child Productions

Producer Steven G. Lowe

Unity of Tustin School of Light

TELEVISION

Hip Hop Harry

 
Girlfriend’s Night In

Double Trouble



HOSTING

Focus – A Special Report

Action Auction

Recurring Guest Star (Mail Carrier Carla)

Guest Star (Rotor Woman)

Star (Angela)

 



Co-Host

Co-Host

Discovery Kids/C to the B Productions

Lifetime Television

PBS/WNVETA

WCET-48

WCET-48

FILM

Away From Home

 

The Joining

Lead (MaryLou)

Co-Star (Professor Mann)

Producer/Director Wes Culwell

Producer/Director Billy Chafin

COMMERCIAL

USC Promo

Pristiq

Corporate Campaign Kick-Of

Smoking Cessation – “Mural”

Gilkey Windows

Principal (Mom)

Supporting (Ballroom Dancer)

Principal (Office Executive)

Supporting (Bus Stop Woman)

Principal (Woman D)

Bute Rutherford Entertainment

Bristol Myers Squibb

United Way

Tobacco Use Prevention Foundation

Holland Communications

industrial

Diabetes Grand Rounds

Rose Hills Infomercial

 
Working With You is Killing Me

Bariatric Treatment Centers

 

Preventing Abuse of the Elderly in Nursing Homes

Principal (MD Trainer)

Principal (Customer Testimonial)

Supporting (Office Girlfriend)

Principal (Mammotome Woman)

Supporting (Director of Nursing)

Innovative Direct Response

Innovative Direct Response

 
Gravity Video Productions

 
GSW & Associates

 
Heartland Centers – Oak Ridge

Stage

The Imaginary Invalid

The Great Nebula in Orion

Once Upon a Playground

Supporting (Toinette)

Lead (Louise)

 
Co-Lead (Wanda)

Patriot Players

Fairfax Thespians

 
Arlington Players

TRAINING

MBA, Marketing:  The Whitman School, Syracuse University,  NY; BA, Speech Communication: George Mason University, VA

The Acting Center (10/07)

8-Week Character Development Workshop

The Actor’s Room (2005 to Date)

Weekly Advanced TV/Film Workshop

Warren B. Meyers Studio

Advanced Voice Over Performance

Professional Actor’s Studio

Weekly Intermediate TV & Film Workshop

Playhouse in the Park

Adult Acting

TV and Commercial Acting

The School for Film & Television, NYC (w/Scholarship)

4-Week Intensive

The Actor’s Intensive w/Kirk Baltz

Professional Actor’s TV/Film Workshops

Acting Academy

Advanced TV and Commercial Acting

Aftra Conservatory Workshops

Mastering the Cold Read

Acting for TV and Film

SPECIAL SKILLS

Expert marketer and business strategist. Experienced public speaker, host, bowler, educator, soccer player, swimmer, snorkeler, runner, horseback rider (English seat), weight-lifter, dog obedience trainer w/own Golden Retriever/German Shepherd. Works well with animals and children. Proficient with ear and teleprompter, and cue cards.  Beginning level stage combat.  Current passport.  Drives stick shift.

RECOGNITION

2007 Parent’s Choice Award:  Hip Hop Harry; 2007 Daytime Emmy Nomination, Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Series:  Hip Hop Harry; 2006 Intn’l Modeling & Talent Association Competition:   2^nd Runner Up, Monologue; Top Ten Finalist, Cold Read, Sitcom, and Soap Opera.  2004-05 Ms. American Queen; 2004-05 Ms. Georgia American Queen; 2004-05 Barbizon Modeling Scholarship