About FunTAZM:
Live Music, Comedy, Training
Creative Services
That's FunTAZ®Shtick!
Welcome to FunTAZM Entertainment! FunTAZM Entertainment was established on St. Patrick's Day, 2001, by veteran performing artist Dawn Suchoboki. The goal of this business is to provide top-quality, professional entertainment and workshops to the people in Regina, throughout Saskatchewan, across Canada, and internationally.
FunTAZM offers entertainment choices for a wide variety of ages and crowd sizes and has different formats to suit the time or budget requirements you may have. Their list of services include live entertainment: singing telegrams, character comedy, various ensembles of live music, one woman show, improv, sketch comedy, entertainment for children: Silly Science/FunTAZ’cience, balloon twisting, face painting, Daisy the Dino Hunter stage show, FunTAZMmmm, birthday parties, training and workshops in the field of professional and personal development, creative services such as writing, proofreading, and graphic design, and motivational speaking.
FunTAZM Entertainment works great in so many venues: weddings, corporate parties, summer BBQ's, town fairs, nightclubs, annual celebrations, private parties, and the list goes on.
Because of the commitment to excellence under the leadership of veteran entertainer and FunTAZM President Dawn Suchoboki, you can feel safe in knowing that you are getting quality entertainers who care about putting a smile on your face. With two decades of experience in performing and instructing, you can feel confident in choosing FunTAZM Entertainment. Check out the variety of options listed on this site, and remember that we can customize to your event.
FunTAZM continually works on improving products and services and your feedback is important to us! Why not email us with your comments or requests? We'd love to hear from you.
Trust FunTAZM to provide the experience and 'know-how' to make your event one to remember. You and your people will feel 'FunTAZTIC!'
Hours of Service
Our services are available 7 days a week. Regular hours for delivery of services and programs vary from service to service.
Ie. *Regular Telegram Delivery between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm
*Early-bird Motivational Speaker 7:00 am
*Late night FunTAZMusic up until 2:00 am
Office Hours: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
We may have someone in reception earlier than 10:00 am and later than 5:00 pm on some days. Please leave us a message if we are out of the office and we will get back to you shortly.
Email Correspondence response time: We try to return all email correspondence within hours of receiving it. Since this is not always possible, we ask that you please phone our office if you require an immediate response.
Rates
Due to the wide variety of services and programs that we offer, the times that we offer our services, and the customizing options that are involved, we do not publish rates. Please phone our office to discuss the details of your event and in most circumstances we will be happy to provide you with a written quote.
Some Biography Info on Dawn Alexis
* Additional experience has been excluded for the sake of length...believe it or not!
August 2010 marks 21 years in the performing arts profession for this versatile performer and instructor, having worked in a wide a variety of positions over the past two decades: actor, singer, dancer, writer, director, choreographer, improv artist, puppeteer, graphic designer, motivational speaker, composer, songwriter, band leader, and the list goes on.
In the theatre, Dawn has appeared in over 40 musical and dramatic productions, most of which ran for 2 to 6 months at a time. Favourite stage performances include the White Queen in "Alice Through the Looking Glass", Cricket in a commedia del arte version of "Pinnochio", Cecily in "The Importance of Being Earnest", and Ernestine in "The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine". She has also appeared in the western Canadian premiere of the musical “The Secret Garden” as well as “Anne of Green Gables”, winning the Elizabeth Sterling Award with fellow cast members for best musical in their respective years. Many people remember Dawn in one of her many comedic character roles in the Celebrations (Regina, Winnipeg, and Edmonton) and Applause (Regina) Interactive Musical Revue venues.
In 2001, Dawn started her own business FunTAZM Entertainment and is responsible for all aspects of operation: administrative, marketing, and product development and delivery. FunTAZM celebrates 8 years in 2009 and offers live entertainment, training, a motivational speaker, and creative services. She continues to work with children as Dynamic Dawn, Silly Science presenter; Giggles the Clown; Daisy the Dino Hunter; and as a FunTAZMic Face Painter. Dawn also instructs private lessons in piano and voice, and offers workshops for children in the performing arts.
Dawn has been writing since elementary school, becoming editor of her school paper in Grade 8, receiving the Ann Walker Creative Writing Award in Grade 11, and had a number of creative articles published in her school newspapers and yearbooks during her high school years. She currently writes customized telegrams, songs, and full length scripts for FunTAZM, and was also a lead comedy writer for a series produced by Emmy Award winning production company Partners in Motion. Dawn likes to develop new shows and in 2008, she debuted “Daisy the Dinosaur Hunter” for children at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, and “An Evening with Frank Somantra”, her one-woman show which debuted in February and eventually performed at the Conexus Arts Centre for a private booking in September. Both shows were created, written, designed, and produced by Dawn herself.
Active in the live music scene for many years, Dawn is band director and lead vocalist in a few bands, singing jazz as Jazz D'Alexis, blues and rock with Blue Dawn, and as a variety/dance band under her own name Dawn Alexis and as the FunTAZM FunBand. Dawn released her debut CD album "Such-A-Bouquet" in 2005, composed and produced by herself and available Canada-wide in 250 retail outlets. She has also garnered rave reviews in her role as the singing ambassador “Pemmican Pearl” for the Buffalo Days Provincial Exhibition in 2006 and 2007.
Dawn has always had a desire to help others. Upon learning about Rotary International and their amazing work in the eradication of polio, she endeavoured to help them reach full eradication with a half hour video for ACCESS Communications, which she researched, wrote, and directed in an effort to raise awareness about the worldwide eradication of polio. The show aired twice weekly for several months that year. Dawn firmly believes that arming people with knowledge and awareness is a strong motivator for people to take action to improve their own or other people’s situations. Her enthusiasm is certainly contagious!
Dawn has been working with children since the early 90’s, getting her start in teaching clowning workshops to elementary aged children throughout Alberta and lower British Columbia. She was also the Senior Instructor and Special Event Presenter for Mad Science of Northern Alberta, teaching after school science clubs, workshops in-class, and large staged events for students in grades K to 6. Besides presenting shows and workshops in countless elementary schools, Dawn also worked with children on First Nations Reserves and with groups of home-schooled children. She has always been recognized for her ability to interact very well with any audience, young and old alike, and is known to have “an uncanny ability to play to both children and adults at the same time. - Liz Nichols, Edmonton Journal.
Here in Regina, Dawn developed and ran a Performing Arts Summer Camp Program for ages 5 through 17 before being invited to become a partner with the Week in Wascana Summer Camp Program. Other partners in this program are the Wascana Centre Authority, Saskatchewan Legislature – Visitor Services, Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan Science Centre, City of Regina, Conexus Arts Centre, U of R - Kinesiology, and the First Nations University. During the week-long camp, each partner group presents their unique program in a half day session with children ages 7 to 11. FunTAZM sessions were high energy and interactive, covering performing arts topics such as clowning, mask work, improvisation, staging basics, scene study, and character development. FunTAZM was a partner for 5 years from 2003 through 2007.
Through FunTAZM, Dawn also offers a variety of other services including creative services in the areas of writing, proofreading and editing, graphic design, creation and development of advertising, and web design projects. An accomplished motivational speaker, Dawn is a true humanitarian and spreads her enthusiasm for life and love far and wide. If you ever get a chance to hear her talk, you must be within hearing distance! She definitely has a gift for gab and loves to share it.
Upon a request by a fellow Rotarian way back in 2003, Dawn developed and continues to facilitate Team Building and Communication Workshops for corporate and community groups. These unique workshops combine improv games from the theatre with inspirational material and lectures, group discussion and self realization exercises to strengthen team dynamics and workshop various topics for professional and personal development.
Did we mention Dawn’s extensive background in improvisation? It all started with Celebrations in 1989 and she's been going strong ever since. From facilitating an improv workshop in her early years with Saskatchewan Express to being the founding member of The Comedy Potion, a sketch comedy troupe with weekly shows in Edmonton, this woman is regarded as one of the greater talents in the improv arena. She continues to share this talent with FunTAZ®mprov Games (similar in format to popular TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway), Shtick It to Ya'! Sketch Comedy, FunTAZMingling, where comedy characters mingle with your crowd, and Character Singing Telegrams, where she improvises on a script freshly written for the recipient based on details provided by the person hiring FunTAZM.
Much more could be said, but since this was just a partial biography,
we recommend that you explore the funtazm.com website and if you would like more information, just write to info@funtazm.com
Have a FunTAZtic day!