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This Magickal Child from Michigan farmlands is an award-winning actress, award-winning writer, professional dancer, burlesque performer, danger artist, world-traveling conservationist, raw vegan celebrity and living proof of what a child raised in love grows up to be.

Voted BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS by the 2011 Los Angeles Movie Awards for her portrayal of KIELLE in the Silver Lake series, Tonya Kay stars as PRINCESS PEACH in Video Game Reunion, Atom.com’s most watched series of all time.  On television, you’ve recognized her performing sketch comedy with Neil Patrick Harris on the 38th Annual People’s Choice Awards, Speed TV’s My Ride Rules, Glee, Criminal Minds, Secret Girlfriend, the George Lopez Show 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 and Emily Deschanel.  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 starring in and performing stunt work in upcoming films Off Worlds, Within The Darkness and Midday Games, or dancing in The Muppets Movie.

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 performs improv at Second City Hollywood.  She is currently known as “The Most Dangerous Woman in Hollywood” hosting and performing burlesque  in Hollywood’s most notorious hot spots with the The Lalas, Dollface Dames and freelance 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 the Performing Animal Welfare Society, NORML, The Serengeti Foundation, The Tree People, The Witch’s Voice, Sea Turtles.org, Center for Biological Diversity and reforestation projects via CarbonFund.org. 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 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.