Erica Muse
- Actress
- Producer
- Sound Department
Erica Muse was born Erica Long in Dallas, TX and raised throughout the suburbs. She started acting at 5 years old in Christmas musicals, and worked on her first set at 15. Erica now works in film, voice-over, commercials, and print. Stories continue to get her through the darkest times in her life and provide an outlet to laugh, learn, and cry with others. Being a survivor of abduction in 2015, among other hardships, she feels just making it to the next day is something to be proud of and finds endless joy in helping provide stories to others. She loves traveling to events to connect with fans, having attended as a fan since 2006, and strives to keep them welcoming to all.
"I feel my creative strengths grew, funny enough, from being bullied. It was drowned out when I became someone or something else. I got lost in the stories and it lit a spark that kept me going through tragedies. The joy I've found in the reception of my work has shown me, my dream is to continue to use my creativity to touch people's lives. In my darkest moments, stories were my escape. Everyone deserves that. Helping provide them makes me feel whole. It gives me reason for those moments." -Erica Muse
At just 8-years-old, Erica fell in love with costumes while watching her father make his own for Halloween. She began sewing with him at age 12, and begged her mother to let her go to AnimeFest simply because she knew her brother had worn a costume to it. In 2006, she attended her first anime convention in cosplay. Not only was she allowed to wear just about anything, people even appreciated it. After having a school uniform her entire life, conventions quickly became her favorite place to be. Erica attended a private grade school where she had been in choir and done Christmas musicals since age 5, but transferred to a public school and joined theatre in high school after seeing West Side Story. She found a new passion through acting, which led her to joining some groups online and doing background work on sets. Her first time on a production set was in 2008 as a tornado victim for F-5. Summer after graduation, she was awarded Best Supporting Actress by the Irving Community Theater for her performance as Bethany in I Wished I Had Waited.
She then shifted her focus to college, go-go dancing and waitressing her way through two semesters before taking a bartending class. The instructor was a videographer looking for extras for music videos. Among them, she appeared in videos with Rhymin' N' Stealin' where she became friends with Josh Martin. She provided costumes and wardrobe for the short film Wraith in 2012 and graduated in December. Her part-time job as a veterinary assistant could have paid the bills, but her constant fostering shorted her grocery fund and eventually rent. Back to juggling gigs to make ends meet. May 18th, 2014 her father was struck by a truck on his motorcycle. She became a business to business sales rep and took care of him. Working nights and weekends for a bikini team to build her portfolio, she helped fund his prosthetic, cared for foster pets, and was named Miss Maverick Harley Davidson 2015. May 18th, 2015 she was drugged and taken from a birthday party by Corey Shane Harris. After the attack, she no longer felt safe as a solo sales rep or model. Working through a temp agency, she got a job at an office she quickly bonded with and hired her on full time.
In 2017, Erica was asked to guest at a convention as a cosplayer for the first time. This was a path she had not previously considered, but happily pursued. While guesting at conventions with the help of her handler and blossoming new relationship, she crossed paths with Josh Martin again and discovered he was the voice of Majin Buu from the Dragon Ball franchise. She suddenly realized she could be a voice for anime, video games, and cartoons like the ones she grew up with. Josh referred her to Chris Rager's class, where she was advised to attend improvisation classes due to her time away from formal acting. She graduated from John Casablancas Center in 2018 and gained agency representation. She became a full-time talent working in commercials, voice-over, print, and film in February of 2020 and continues to train.
"I feel my creative strengths grew, funny enough, from being bullied. It was drowned out when I became someone or something else. I got lost in the stories and it lit a spark that kept me going through tragedies. The joy I've found in the reception of my work has shown me, my dream is to continue to use my creativity to touch people's lives. In my darkest moments, stories were my escape. Everyone deserves that. Helping provide them makes me feel whole. It gives me reason for those moments." -Erica Muse
At just 8-years-old, Erica fell in love with costumes while watching her father make his own for Halloween. She began sewing with him at age 12, and begged her mother to let her go to AnimeFest simply because she knew her brother had worn a costume to it. In 2006, she attended her first anime convention in cosplay. Not only was she allowed to wear just about anything, people even appreciated it. After having a school uniform her entire life, conventions quickly became her favorite place to be. Erica attended a private grade school where she had been in choir and done Christmas musicals since age 5, but transferred to a public school and joined theatre in high school after seeing West Side Story. She found a new passion through acting, which led her to joining some groups online and doing background work on sets. Her first time on a production set was in 2008 as a tornado victim for F-5. Summer after graduation, she was awarded Best Supporting Actress by the Irving Community Theater for her performance as Bethany in I Wished I Had Waited.
She then shifted her focus to college, go-go dancing and waitressing her way through two semesters before taking a bartending class. The instructor was a videographer looking for extras for music videos. Among them, she appeared in videos with Rhymin' N' Stealin' where she became friends with Josh Martin. She provided costumes and wardrobe for the short film Wraith in 2012 and graduated in December. Her part-time job as a veterinary assistant could have paid the bills, but her constant fostering shorted her grocery fund and eventually rent. Back to juggling gigs to make ends meet. May 18th, 2014 her father was struck by a truck on his motorcycle. She became a business to business sales rep and took care of him. Working nights and weekends for a bikini team to build her portfolio, she helped fund his prosthetic, cared for foster pets, and was named Miss Maverick Harley Davidson 2015. May 18th, 2015 she was drugged and taken from a birthday party by Corey Shane Harris. After the attack, she no longer felt safe as a solo sales rep or model. Working through a temp agency, she got a job at an office she quickly bonded with and hired her on full time.
In 2017, Erica was asked to guest at a convention as a cosplayer for the first time. This was a path she had not previously considered, but happily pursued. While guesting at conventions with the help of her handler and blossoming new relationship, she crossed paths with Josh Martin again and discovered he was the voice of Majin Buu from the Dragon Ball franchise. She suddenly realized she could be a voice for anime, video games, and cartoons like the ones she grew up with. Josh referred her to Chris Rager's class, where she was advised to attend improvisation classes due to her time away from formal acting. She graduated from John Casablancas Center in 2018 and gained agency representation. She became a full-time talent working in commercials, voice-over, print, and film in February of 2020 and continues to train.
