This Magickal Child from Michigan farmlands is an award-winning actress, award-winning writer, professional dancer, burlesque performer, pole athlete, danger artist, stunt woman, world-traveling conservationist, raw vegan celebrity and living proof of what a child raised in love grows up to be.
Known for the moxie, physicality and depth of characters she creates, Tonya Kay was voted BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS (2011 Los Angeles Movie Awards) for her portrayal of series regular KIELLE in Silver Lake and stars as PRINCESS PEACH in Video Game Reunion, voted BEST COMEDY ENSEMBLE (2012 Indie Intertube Awards) also honored as Atom.com’s most watched series of all time. In 2013 Tonya Kay won the HOTT HOTTNESS AWARD (BMORB) for her acting/fighting work in Creep Van. On television, you’ve recognized her performing sketch comedy with Neil Patrick Harris on the 38th Annual People’s Choice Awards, NBC’s The Voice, Speed TV’s My Ride Rules, Glee, Criminal Minds and The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien.
Nothing makes Tonya Kay happier than when her ideals and art combine. It has been this long term raw vegan’s distinct pleasure to work with fellow vegan celebrities Ellen Degeneres, Russell Brand, Rob Zombie, Nathan Barnatt, Emily Deschanel and director Gene Blalock. Tonya Kay plays the comedic relief, I ROCK, in the first fictional film about the Animal Liberation Front, Bold Native, and is the voice of Green Girl in the animated raw vegan superhero films, Rawman and Green Girl. Look for her playing lead roles in Death Factory feature film, BlackBoxTV’s Silverwood Recordings, The Kill Corporation series, Off Worlds film and Within The Darkness film, dancing in The Muppets Movie and Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendent, performing specialty in The Lone Ranger or acting and performing stunts in Nightmare Code and Raze (opposite Zoe Bell).
As a stage performer, Tonya Kay has toured for 3 years in STOMP, flown in the aerial phenom De La Guarda, toured with Panic At The Disco and Kenny Rogers, danced in New York and LA concert tap dance companies and is a Second City Hollywood trained improv comedian, starring in Lip Dub Divorce Proposal which was featured on The Today Show and went viral. She is known as “The Most Dangerous Woman in Hollywood” hosting and performing burlesque in Hollywood’s most notorious hot spots as a Lalas Burlesque company member or special guest star for hire. But there is more to Tonya Kay than her multi-faceted performance career.
Tonya Kay graduated Valedictorian of her high school class, but chose not to continue with traditional education. She owns two green film/tv businesses, Happy Mandible, Inc and Solid Hollywood, LLC, and believes that creating the world you wish to live in starts with the individual, but does not stop there. Therefore she is a philanthropist, generously donating to NORML, The Serengeti Foundation, The Tree People, The Witch’s Voice, Survival International, Animal Defenders International, Performing Animal Welfare Society, Sea Turtles Restoration Project, Center for Biological Diversity and reforestation projects via CarbonFund. She has traveled 18 countries to volunteer her physical body to the preservation and protection of endangered species including the Asian elephant at Thailand’s Elephant Nature Park and sea turtles with Costa Rica’s PRETOMA. And she writes about it all. Tonya Kay is an award-winning writer, her Clean and Green Everyday column in EcoHearth Magazine voted one of 50 Best Ecology Blogs by Forensic Science Technician.
When she is not road tripping this blessed continent in her vegetable-oil-fuelled Jetta or rebuilding her 1965 Buick Riviera classic hot rod Tonya Kay is seeking out organic farmer’s markets, sustainable vineyards and life-changing art. It is this renegade’s passion to shape reality, push evolution, exist in love and take the whole wide world along for the ride.
