Velvet Duke, Notable Performances

Lyrics & Backing Tracks

(2020) Ashley Cooper commissioned me to produce three 90-second bumper songs for Ashley VS, her Twitch channel. The songs were produced using the Boss RC-202 Loop Station and Reaper Digital Audio Workstation (Testimonial)

• Distraction (lyrics); Stretching (lyrics); Where’s Ashley (lyrics)

(2020) OverDude (Al Val and Velvet Duke) released “Hell Toupee“, a live album of select improvised rock-n-roll songs from 2019 concerts. Al created the guitar tracks, Velvet created the lyrics

Improvised Lyrics

(2021) Peter Chiykowski commissioned me for four improvised songs using The Story Engine. I was given access to the full Story Engine, Expansion and Booster decks to produce the songs (Testimonial)

• Prophet Want, Protestor, Time to Dye, No Well Wishes

2021 Interviews

• Improv Discussion and Resources (Chris Griswold) “Why NOT The Netherlands?”
• Yes But Why? (Amy Jordan) “Connecting with an audience and doing what you love!”
• Improv Interviews (Margot Escott) “Empowers through improv”
• Creative Confessional’s (Kelly Taylor, Maddie Rose) “Digital tools to engage audiences”
• My First Trek (Mark DeBonis) “Embracing your inner Trekkie”

Other Guest Appearances

• Velvet conceptualized, wrote and provided voiceover for the sketch commercial “AR U Ready” (“Larry’s Got Mail” episode, The Plop)
• Velvet provided the voiceover for Weekend Rental – Star Trek The Next Generation NES (Mako Powered – Dr. Chris Alton) (Testimonial)
• Velvet is a regular contributor with the Terrible Warriors (Justin Ecock)
• Erotic Star Wars fan fiction and Pen is Mightier (Paul JP)

Fringe Theatre

Personal Demon Hunter was a critically received 2019 Fringe Festival production, produced, written and performed by Velvet Duke. It spawned a sequel in 2020 called Personal Demon Hunter: Divine & Conquer