BIOGRAPHY

My first recollection of being on a stage was at North Shore Elementary School (Chicago), in first grade. The second, was across the pond in Barcelona (Spain), playing percussion to a song at the school theatre in 4th grade. Leap forward to the late 90s.

Toggling between various day jobs, I followed through with my creative journey as a professional musician, playing live, touring, and recording different genres of great music with wonderfully talented artists, since the mid 90's, as well as writing for music magazines. My years in music and advertising studios brought me full circle…

About 20+ years ago, I discovered a new fascination for voice acting, including animation character creation, film dubbing and also voiceover in both native English and Spanish. This quickly enticed me to organically explore the art and crafts of acting in a committed and respectful way. Thus far, I've been lucky to perform in many projects, including award-winning feature and short film, musical and experimental theatre, cartoon animation, and commercials, all in either native, regional or foreign accents, mainly in both languages (English & Spanish), and others on occasion!

My work focuses on the truth of the script and characters within a story, as well as, embracing and balancing both the experiential-technical side, and the creative-instictive energies. A perpetual trainee in life, I'm still as deeply fascinated by the magic of art, music, performance and film today, as I became back in ‘78 when I hit the movie theatre for the time ever to see the original Star Wars.

JL

 

 

© 2024 Joe Lewis, bilingual actor & narrator