Charlie Zwart - radio spot, cartoon characters, game show host

radio spot, cartoon characters, game show host

• Charlie Zwart is registered with Voice123 since Jun 24, 2009.
• Charlie Zwart started his/her voice over career in 1994.
• Currently Charlie Zwart is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

warm for narrations, upbeat and cheerful for commercials, silly for cartoons and child's audiobooks, multi-voiced for audiobook, professional for presentations, sincere for voicemail messages

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Child
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

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
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• 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

Montgomery, New York, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

gravely voiced villian for cartoons, goofy type voice for cartoons, cartoon type spanish accent speaking english, dutch or germanic accent to english, weak-voiced old man, hard of hearing old man, enthusiastic game show host, upbeat game show announcer, dim-witted male teen, slow speaking dim-wit, radio announcer stereo-type, et. al.

My Voice Experience

College radio drama scriptwriting winner in 1994. Series specs for local mattress store, radio ads using Wilbur (old timer) and his wife Thelma in varied settings to encourage SERTA mattress use.
Wrote and read variation on Little Red Riding Hood for automotive shop.
Narration for Dentist office video for SULLIVAN SPLINT (TMJ device developed by local dentist) used in office to describe benefits of product to patients.
Local PSA's for churches and non-profit organizations.
Opens and closes for live Gospel radio shows.
Executive producer for christian radio dramatics, including voices as needed in scripts of men, old men, cartoony characters, kings, store clerks, and children of elementary age.
Cable TV spot for auto sales company. Narration of spot to entice viewer to visit their site.
Replica old time radio spots for amusement park in Tn that opened a 50's era themed section. These were played interspersed with music from the era.

My Training

Graduated Johnson Bible College, Knoxville TN 1997 degree in Bible/ Communications
Trained in AM radio station as announcer during college days, moved up to music director after that.
Trained in recording studio environment as part of college training, and ended up as executive producer of chidren's radio dramatics, where I polished up on voice over training.
Trained in puppetry voices in 1981, using in live and pre-recorded forms throughout 1980's and 1990's.
Taught music concert booking by Ron Blackwood,and worked field for a few years, and had been around musical performers during that time.
While in college, had been trained in audio sweetening for post-production video work, A-B roll editing, script writing and video production techniques.

My Studio Equipment

TEAC 1/4 inch 4-track reel to reel recorder
Shure SM-58 microphone
Mackie 24-4 mixer
2 Tascam CD160MKII cd players
TASCAM CDRW900SL recorder
Behrenger USB mixer
Extensive SFX library

Additional Skills

Have been a youth director for children and teens, so have been self schooled on voices that work for this market.
Job experiences range from route sales for frozen foods to uniform rental. Also radio spot sales, print sales for tourist publications, electrician's helper, promotional product sales. Through all the advertising experiences, I've learned how to research an industry to find a fit with the product and/or service I am seeking to help. I've learned about the pet industry, restaurants and food services, automotive industries, contracting and construction, dairy-farming, custom motorcyles, school and building maintenance and many others.