Veleka

These days when Veleka is not in her Writing Room developing a thriller TV series for binge watchers, she's in her Recording Room narrating audiobooks or voicing commercials.

Veleka became a professional on-camera and voiceover actress and singer at age six in her hometown of New Orleans. When she moved to New York, Veleka set a record on daytime TV by starring in nine different roles in six soap operas, seven of which were contract roles... more than any other actor in daytime drama.

Her best-remembered parts include Lyla Montgomery on "As the World Turns" and the unusual dual role of Ruby Collins and Dr. Sharon Reaves on "The Young & The Restless." She is the only actress in soap history to play two roles on the same show at the same time that were not related in any way.

She also trod the boards of Broadway for David Merrick and at the Roundabout, both times directed by Peter Levin, and got rave reviews as Thelma Wonderland in Jack Aranson's national tour of "Dylan".

As a writer, she sold one script to Columbia Television and conceived the series "The Hamptons" produced by Gloria Monty. For six years she penned a biweekly column for "Soap Opera Digest" and wrote feature articles for other fan magazines.

In 2015, she was awarded the title of Master Screenwriter after six years training at Screenwriting U. She is optioned and specializes in fast-paced, high-concept, female-driven thrillers designed to carry the audience on a riveting adventure.

Veleka's last script, BLIND TRUST, was Recommended in coverage and earned the rank of Semi-Finalist in the PAGE Awards screenplay competition and Quarter-Finalist in Screencraft.
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She is a former Board Member of Women in Film and Television and a forty-year member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences where she has been a finalist judge for the national Emmy Awards since 1975.

She was a Latin major in college, is Point Two in the Enneagram, an ENFJ, a member of MENSA in the 99 percentile, loves solving puzzles, won the Star Performer Award from NOLA Voice Foundation in 2016, and was inducted into the Louisiana Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2004.