Carol Beaugard

Voice Description

Very warm and friendly for narrations; for commercials - wide range including funny, girl next door, sexy and intimate, or corporate with a soft appeal, smooth and professional for presentations; plus variety of character voices for animation, movies, videogames, etc.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Baby
• Child
• Teenage Girl
• Young Adult Female
• Middle Age Female
• Senior Female

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for ACTRA (Canada) signatories

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for British Equity signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

• Jobs for Union des Artistes (Canada) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have Phone Patch in my studio
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer radio ad production services
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Chester, New York, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

French (oo la la), Southern (bluegrass is in mah blud shugah), New York, Spanish (Spanglish and NYC with an attitude), Jewish (the Kvetchy Mother you dread talking to on the phone, Oiy Veh!), Small Child, Valley teen (whatever), wee bit o' thee Irish, elderly, weak and sickly infirm, highly perky (up to and beyond Legally Blond), stutterer (slightly impaired to I, Claudius), hard 40s gangster-moll, timid and shy, Chinese immigrant

My Voice Experience

After 30 years on-air in radio in the NY market and years of singing and acting, I'm finally listening to the scores of people who have told me I should make a living using my voice for commercials and voice over work.

My VO experience includes lots of PSAs and commercials for various radio stations I've worked for over the years and projects I've done for my event-planning videographer colleagues - and now I'm ready to break into the big-time!

I'm a ball of talent and drive. I've been doing voices since I was a kid absorbing all the fantastic characters in hundreds of Vitaphone and Merry Melodies cartoons. While my friends are laughing at the antics shown in today's commercials, I'm the one sitting by my TV with my H4 recording the announcers and walking through the woods in my backyard replicating spoken copy and making up crazy voices.

Do you remember the person that gave you your first break? I remember my first acting job (6 years old playing Emile DeBecque's daughter in South Pacific), my first radio exposure (reading the newspaper for the blind on-air in Boston) - you could be the foresighted angel that gives me my first professional VO break. If talent, spirit, dedication, drive and open willingness count for anything - I'm here and ready to deliver.

My Training

Emerson College - Bachelor of Science & Speech
Weist-Barron - voice over study (back in the 1980s)

HB Studios - acting, scene study, dance

Radio - 30 years of on-air experience announcing top 40, pop, golden oldies, talk, country, traditional American music and public affairs programming in the NYC and Boston markets (non-commercial and commercial stations)
PSAs, Commercials - produced, recorded and wrote copy for spots for various stations

Acting - singer, actress with movement in musicals and plays (such as West Side Story, Flower Drum Song, Grease, Godspell, The Women,...)

Vocalist - current lead vocalist with bluegrass/country/swing/celtic band - with appearances at festivals and clubs throughout the NY tri-state area, former cabaret singer

My Studio Equipment

Windows based DAW running Reaper 2.56 with Waves Mercury Collection plug-ins.

Also using Adobe Audition Version 3.0, and a variety of format conversion tools.

Studio also features Behringer USB2.0 Mixer, KRK near field monitors, Stanton professional CD decks and a variety of large and small diaphragm condenser microphones, dynamic microphones and ART Tube Pre-Amps.

Studio is equipped for CD duplication and has high-speed FTP capabilities for file transfer.

Additional Skills

I'm a native New Yorker (Manhattan)
My background is Hispanic (Ecuadorian and Puerto Rican) but I wasn't raised speaking Spanish. English is my first language so I have perfect American speech.

I have an excellent writing background and have written copy for radio PSAs and commercials.

I have a very strong musical background - I'm an expert in bluegrass and progressive string music, and follow celtic and folk music, swing and pop music, and early rock.

I'm a Public Relations Specialist - I worked in PR and marketing with The MWW Group, for an arts museum and other small firms.

Event Planner - I founded my own company, 'Affairs of Distinction', and have produced weddings and special events.

I was featured on the television show, 'Whose Wedding is it Anyway?" - spotlighting my work as an event planner.
As an event planner, I've also been profiled in numerous bridal and trade magazines, NJ newspapers and local television.

I have traveled extensively and lived in Mexico City for a year. Countries visited include: France, Italy, Portugal, England, Ecuador, Mexico, Columbia, Canada, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Bermuda

My hobbies include: swing dancing, hiking, learning guitar, fiddle and mandolin

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency
• Wire transfers

Contact Information

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