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After studying performance art at the University of Colorado, Toddy explored her desire to act. In 1993 she met South Park co-creator Trey Parker at CU. At the time, Parker was busy creating his first ode to insanity, Cannibal the Musical . The movie is about Alfred Packer, the first man ever to be tried for cannibalism in America. Walters landed a role in the film out of college and soon after became romantically involved with Parker.

Walters's on-again, off-again romance with Parker eventually ended, but the association with him led to a new musical outlet for her. "I wrote two songs for South Park episodes," she explains. "I did one song that was a re-creation of an Enya song, but it had to be a little bit different so Enya can't come back and sue. Then I wrote another song that was sort of a re-creation of an Indigo Girls song. It was called, 'I Love Domestic Chores.' It was sung and written as sort of a lesbian anthem; it was funny."

Walters can't say the same of every Parker project.

"The way South Park hits on deeper issues while being funny is creative genius," she says. " Cannibal just had success written all over it. Trey has success written all over him. He is very interesting in that way. But I think Orgasmo was definitely not great art, and by far, I don't think it is the best thing they have ever done. It's kind of like Trey needs to just sort of stick to what he's better at. As far as my acting, basically I just did anything that he had to offer and I never pursued anything else."

"I heard through the grapevine that Trey's thinking about accepting an offer to put Cannibal the Musical on Broadway with the original cast. I haven't heard anything confirmed by anyone about that, but I'm wondering if I would do that. I just don't know. But that will be kind of interesting."

[ source: WESTWORD ]