About Me:
Delilah Kujala
My father is a professional Flautist who has worked in Feature Films, Television and Musicals my entire life. My mother was a singer, actor and director. From a very young age, I was drawn to music, piano playing, singing, and storytelling.
I was raised in Tehachapi, CA where I’ve been performing since I was in the first grade and then later moved to Santa Clarita, CA. There, I delved into the land of Show Choir and Musicals. I continued my love of theater by attending the two years theater conservatory, Pacific Conservatory of The Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA. Afterward, I spent a year in Chicago at Roosevelt University pursuing a BFA in Musical Theater. Deciding the program wasn’t for me, I moved back to California. I took a year off of school and got involved in some musicals in the central coast theater scene, including the world premiere of an Elton John/Bernie Taupin musical called Tumbleweed Connection. I then attended Cal State Fullerton and received my BFA in the acting program (where I met my future husband). Once I graduated, I focused my efforts on singing. I did musicals like Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well (Costa Mesa Playhouse) and one of my dream roles playing Cathy in The Last 5 Years (Lake Arrowhead Rep). I was fortunate enough to be hired for some singing sessions.
My husband and I moved to Los Angeles six years ago. In LA, I delved into several different acting classes while also producing, writing, and performing in two shows at The Hollywood Fringe Festival (You & I Do, Do You?). I worked on some Industrials (Microsoft, McGraw Hill), TV shows (LMN, ID Network), short films (TBN, AFI), singing sessions, voice over, and musical theater. Most notably, I did four different runs of Shame Of Thrones: The Musical including performances Off Broadway at The Theater Center and San Diego-Comic Con (both in 2017).
The last three years, I’ve dug my feet into the world of voice over. I have worked in commercials, corporate narration, E Learning, audiobooks, promos and some voice Dubbing. At the beginning of quarantine, I was fortunate to book a remote voiceover session with Ring (Amazon) and was very glad to have gotten my home studio setup put together just before the lockdown began. I worked with Globo (Brazillian TV Network) on several English dubbed voice over promos and recorded my first Audiobook from my home recording studio. That process meant spending 150 hours recording, editing, and mixing. It was a huge time commitment but I learned a lot during the process.
My first love is singing. I actually think it is what has made me the actor that I am today. One of my biggest passions is singing and playing piano, mostly Tori Amos and ballads. To me, singing and music are directly connected to my acting and storytelling. It’s just another way of communicating and one I love doing. I think all the qualities of singing and musical theater have naturally led me to the world of voice over and being able to create a story through imagination and voice.
Some singing projects I am very proud of include being a VEVO artist when I was in a band called Altruist, which was the brainchild of my friend Danielle Palmer. Our single “Alive” which was written by Danielle and co written by Abigail Garvin, can be heard on VEVO and Itunes. The song and music video was created to bring awareness to the harmful nature of conversion therapy on the LGBTQ+ community.
I also did some singing sessions for Reggae artists Jack Miller and Peter Dobson, who hired me on my first professional recording gig. You can hear me on the tracks “Ecstasy” and “Hope Road” on their album Hurricane Jack (iTunes).
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Musical theater has always been a big part of my life. I am proud to have worked with what started out as Game Of Thrones: The Rock Musical which ran in West Hollywood, followed by Comic Con (2017) and then was renamed Shame Of Thrones: The Rock Musical later that year when we went Off Broadway at The Theater Center. I played Cersei Lannister for the first two runs, then Catelyn Stark for our Off Broadway run along with a 4th remount of the show which we did at the Whitefire Theater last year. You can hear me sing “The Mad Queen: Cersei’s Lament” on the soundtrack.
I was in a branding/marketing class with the late Sam Christensen, and one of the essence statements we came up with to describe me was, “It’s Like This… If Buddha Married Ethel Merman”. I think this is what people are drawn to and what sets me apart. My ability to bring my voice, wisdom and grounded perspective to the work while also being able to switch on a dime into my whimsical, quirky, sometimes loud, show-tune side. I’ve been known to randomly sing “Somewhere That’s Green” in the voice of Herbert The Pervert” (with that annoying whistled “S”) from Family Guy.
In voice over, 2019 was when I booked my first big commercial for Ring Camera (Amazon) and have recorded several commercials and explainer videos for them. I worked on three episodes of The Veil: Audio Drama (Apple Podcasts). I’ve also been proud to be a part of the pilot Anime “Phantom Hollow” as the character Adonai. 2021 was my busiest year yet. I did Voice Dubbing for several projects including the lead, Shirin in “The Evil Next Door” (Swedish Horror Movie) as well as one of the lead characters, Merit Pontz, in the first season of the German horror TV series Sløborn. I have a national commercial now airing for Greenlight (“Invest In Your Best Investment’). And have worked for companies such as: Ubisoft, Hasbro/Disney, Almond Breeze, Moonton, Intel and CircleCI. I have two regional campaigns for Food City as well as Babson College. I played Benedetta: Death Oath in the hit video game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang and landed my first feature role as Amazon Alexa in the mini movies South Park: Post Covid and South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid on Paramount Plus.
I was in a branding/marketing class with the late Sam Christensen, and one of the essence statements we came up with to describe me was, “It’s Like This… If Buddha Married Ethel Merman”. I think this is what people are drawn to and what sets me apart. My ability to bring my voice, wisdom and grounded perspective to the work while also being able to switch on a dime into my whimsical, quirky, sometimes loud, show-tune side. I’ve been known to randomly sing “Somewhere That’s Green” in the voice of Herbert The Pervert” (with that annoying whistled “S”) from Family Guy.
In voice over, 2019 was when I booked my first big commercial for Ring Camera (Amazon) and have recorded several commercials and explainer videos for them. I worked on three episodes of The Veil: Audio Drama (Apple Podcasts). I’ve also been proud to be a part of the pilot Anime “Phantom Hollow” as the character Adonai. 2021 was my busiest year yet. I did Voice Dubbing for several projects including the lead, Shirin in “The Evil Next Door” (Swedish Horror Movie) as well as one of the lead characters, Merit Pontz, in the first season of the German horror TV series Sløborn. I have a national commercial now airing for Greenlight (“Invest In Your Best Investment’). And have worked for companies such as: Ubisoft, Hasbro/Disney, Almond Breeze, Moonton, Intel and CircleCI. I have two regional campaigns for Food City as well as Babson College. I played Benedetta: Death Oath in the hit video game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang and landed my first feature role as Amazon Alexa in the mini movies South Park: Post Covid and South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid on Paramount Plus.
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