ELYSE WILLEMS is a writer, producer, and performer, born in Canada and living in Los Angeles. While she shines in any situation where she can don a mustache and wig, Elyse brings her comedic chops and creative talents to a myriad of work, behind-the-scenes and in front of the camera.
WRITING
Elyse has co-written two videos games, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed (2022), and Arcadeggedon (2021). In 2019, Elyse served as showrunner, writer, and cast member of Arizona Circle, a 22-minute, 8-episode sketch series. A year later, she published her first children’s novel, “A Night in Halloween House” (2020), a nostalgic holiday adventure for young readers, which reached #1 in Children’s New Halloween Releases and Children’s Spine-Chilling Horror in Amazon Books.
HOSTING & PODCASTING
Elyse is the host of PBS SoCal’s Won’t You Be My Gamer, an online series where she interviews a featured expert and plays video games related to their expertise. In 2024, she hosted the reveal stream of Square Enix’s upcoming title, Life Is Strange: Double Exposure. Now and then, Elyse lets her spooky side show, investigating macabre topics as the creator, co-host, and writer of the 30 Morbid Minutes podcast. A movie fan and buff, Elyse was also the co-host of Warner Bros. Entertainment's official Popcorn & Shield podcast, which covered upcoming releases and classics pulled from the Warner vault.
PRODUCING & PERFORMING
Elyse got her start at GameTrailers, first as a production assistant on Spike TV’s GT.TV with Geoff Keighley. Her role evolved and Elyse was promoted to producer and cast member for the website. In 2015, her love for both video games and comedy brought her to the gaming entertainment group Funhaus, where she spent spent nine years developing and performing in thousands of hours of video and live content, earning the Funhaus YouTube channel over 1.6 billion overall views, and leaving a lasting legacy in gaming entertainment.
COLLABORATIONS
You can catch Elyse collaborating with Smosh, Dropout, RocketJump, Kinda Funny, Hyper RPG, Sinisterhood, Drawfee, and more channels around the web.
