Carla Briscoe

Dialects and accents include: Standard American; Southern; Mid-Western; Brooklyn/Jersey/Bronx; British (Northern, Cockney, BBC, and "Proper"); Irish ( "posh," West Dublin, and Northern); Italian; Spanish; Russian; Polish; German, and French. Impersonations and Characterizations: Jennifer Tilly; Eric Cartman; "On Golden Pond years" Katherine Hepburn; Suze Orman; Mercedes Reuhl; and "those girls" on their cellphones (you know the ones). Also: The child of immigrants, I have the rare ability to mangle and stumble over language like a legit (still learning) foreign-speaker; also, I can sound like a man (convincingly).

I provided the voice for: an animation entitled "Rise and Fall" (available online at atomfilms and elsewhere; mid-Western accent), the comic short "Fetal Fashion" (Italian voice; viewable at ), the comic short "Montang and Meaney" (BBC Interviewer; viewable at ). I have a demo reel including commercial voice work, which includes "old Hollywood" styled voice work; girl-next-door VO work; as well as "the sophisticated and erudite consumer" VO work. I have a BFA in Acting from Tisch School of the Arts (where I also completed majors in Psychology and English & American Literature). I recently completed an MA in Performance Studies, also at Tisch, graduating in September, 2008. I studied with the Atlantic Theater Company for several years while at NYU, as well as Stonestreet Studios school for Film & TV (also a part of NYU). Thereafter, I trained in improvisation and sketch-writing with The Upright Citizens Brigade in New York and in LA, later performing with the group "Livestock." I also trained in improv with Shira Piven and Armando Diaz. I completed a Master Class with LAByrinth Theater Company in Fall 2006, and was an apprentice with LAByrinth in 2007. I am currently a Teaching Artist with the Women's Project; I trained to teach Script Analysis with Karen Kohlhaas of Atlantic Thetaer, and have also worked as a substitute teacher at TVI Studios in Manhattan. I'm an extremely grounded, responsible and disciplined ("drama-free") professional who takes direction well, shows up on time, and always delivers; flexible in my performance and easy to work with.