Tracey Ellert - StoryTeller & StoryMaker

TELEVISION PERFORMANCE 2000 to PRESENT Weekly Live Game Show Host — Character: Extra Technician Tracey "Body Parts" Skylight T.V. at Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago Directed by René Roy • 2006 Character Puppeteer "Activity TV Puppets" Segments: Sherman The Shoebox Monster Sammy And The Snowdancers Sock Puppies On The Farm Popcorn Super Heroes Directed by John Kennedy • 2006 Animation Voiceover – Characters: Slug & Dude "Safety Time Blues" Pilot Directed by René Roy • 2005 Actor – Character: Dancy Nancy "Jack's Big Music Show" Episode: Mel's Super Swell Dance Party Spiffy Pictures / Noggin Network Directed by David Rudman • 2004 Actor – Character: The Storyteller "Curious Buddies" Episode: Story Time Spiffy Pictures / Baby Nick Jr. Directed by David Rudman •• PRODUCTION CREDITS 2005 & 2006 Script Supervisor "Jack's Big Music Show" 26 episodes, Season 1 and Season 2 Spiffy Pictures / Noggin Network 2004 Baby Wrangler "Curious Buddies" Episodes: Let's Move Let's Go To The Farm Story Time Spiffy Pictures / Baby Nick Jr	LIVE PERFORMANCE 2001 to PRESENT self Ballyhoo Inc. USA and Mexico numerous performances at schools, daycares, private parties, nursing homes, churches, summer camps, fundraisers, public events • 2007 June - November self Roving Reader Program The Collaborative Prevention Initiative with Chicago Public Schools/Erie House/YWCA/North Avenue Day Nursery monthly visits to 25 in-home daycares — 6 Spanish speaking • 2006 Character Puppeteer Key West Public Library Directed by John Kennedy • 2005 Improv Performance – Puppet Character: Jay Jay Jay Jay in the Lobby Pilot program at Children's Memorial Hospital Directed by René Roy • 2005 Actor – Character:The Lecturer Mega-Effects! Chicago Children's International Film Festival Directed with Geoff Binns-Calvey •• TRAINING IO Theater Piven Theater Oakton Community College, Associate in the Arts	WRITER 2001 to PRESENT Ballyhoo Inc. "Original Stories & Improvised Material" Tracey writes all her own material for Ballyhoo Inc. Her repertoire includes over a hundred original stories and the occasional ad-libbed Traceyized version of a requested traditional fairy tale or children's classic. • 2007 Co-Writer "Bunnytown" Episode: Bunnytown Follies Episode: Wintertime In Bunnytown Disney Channel • 2007 Curriculum Writer "Roving Reader Program" Chicago Public Schools/Erie House/YWCA/North Avenue Day Nursery • 2006 Writer "Activity TV: Puppets" Skits: Sherman The Shoebox Monster Skit Sammy And The Snowdancers Skit Sock Puppies On The Farm Skit Popcorn Superheroes Skit Comcast • 2005 Co-Writer "Jack's Big Music Show" Episode: How Mel Got His Groove Back Noggin Network • 2004 Workshops Writer/Director/Performer: "Creative Storytelling" Concordia University Early Childhood Education Conference Uptown East Head Start Parent Workshop
	Body Parts broadcasts live mondays on Skylight T.V. at Children’s Memorial Hospital Directed by: Rene Roy Tracey has been making rounds at Children’s Memorial for seven seasons as Extra Techician Tracey, the host of Body Parts — a one-hour, two-segment, live game show filmed before a contestant-filled audience of ambulatory patients, WITH callers joining in the fun from beds throughout the hospital! That’s right — everybody plays when Tracey's interrupts the hospital routine with a chance to win something from the prize cart, delivered by Extra Technician Tracey herself!
	Jay Jay in the Lobby Improv Performance/Pilot Program at Children’s Memorial Hospital Directed by: Rene Roy Tracey wheeled around as Jay Jay a very curious resident of the hospital. Jay Jay's never at a loss for words and interested in everything, everyone, everywhere.
		photography by Ingrid Bonne