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Hari Leigh is an entertainment professional based in Los Angeles. She is known for her work writing, casting and directing both voice and motion capture for AAA games including Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Marvel Spider-Man 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Fortnite, WWE2k22, GLAAD award nominated Wylde Flowers, and more.
Swimming – the repetitive motion and meditative breathing help me calm any “voices” that may want to discourage me from pursuing my passions. I try to lap swim 4 days out of the week, and I taught myself very late in my life. You can ALWAYS start something new.
Drag Race – and all spinoff podcasts, shows and brunches. Drag is a great reminder to not take oneself too seriously. I also think it’s where the funniest comedians who dont perform “stand up” are hiding out, beneath a mountain of wigs and lashes. Laughter is the BEST everything.
Julia Bianco Schoeffling’s book The Art And Business of Acting For Games – Shameless friend plug, but honestly I love gifting this book to people and having it as a go to whenever I’m asked about how our industry works. (link here)
FRIENDSHIP – All of my best connections and opportunities have come from bonds that I made through genuine interest in someone. I dont make friends to further my career, I make friends who love the same things I do and want to collaborate on making things we believe in. Luckily, the people who inspire me have gone on to do really cool things, as have I and we think about ways we can support each other. I love my friends.
5. My Dog Charly – If you know, you know.
As a screenwriter her feature screenplay “Driverless” was a Barnard College Athena List 2023 award winner and she is a Stowe Story Labs alumni. The short film “Troll,” which she co-wrote/ co-starred in, premiered at the 2017 Maryland Film Festival. Other “Official Selection” honors include New Orleans Film Festival, IFF Rotterdam, as well as being selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick. As an actor, she has been featured in John Waters’ A Dirty Shame, Key & Peele, and her voice can be heard in a variety of animated shows and games. She recently directed an animated short and a music video for harpist Mary Lattimore’s We Wave From Our Boats.
13 08 26Rest is hard to come by as a creative person. Experts will often tell you to embrace “just being,” but personally, when I try that, a little voice tends to pipe in my head and let me know that I’m falling behind, not doing enough, and then I end up retroactively putting together an in-depth game plan to tackle for when I’m done pretending to “just be.”
09 07 26...networking isn't just about meeting people. It’s about building genuine professional relationships. The challenge is that authenticity has its own etiquette. Industry professionals can usually tell the difference between curiosity and strategy, and the strongest networking happens when the two naturally overlap.
11 04 26I’m curious, if you’re an actor, singer, engineer, composer, dancer, animator — or like, pursue anything in the arts, can you recall a note you’ve received in the past, or a special nugget of wisdom from a mentor that you can say has genuinely helped shape your craft for the better? A note that’s inspired you to strive to be the best artist you can be? On the flip side…have you received a note that felt like a personal attack or perhaps has made you question your worth as an artist?
