Chip Keyes - Calm, serious, warm. character, comedy, paternal

Calm, serious, warm. character, comedy, paternal

• Chip Keyes is registered with Voice123 since Jun 30, 2008.
• Chip Keyes started his/her voice over career in 2007.
• Currently Chip Keyes is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

Warm and deep for narration
Wry and comic for commercials (former comedian)
Good acting for commercials, audio books (SAG since 1976)
Smooth and professional for presentations
Calm and soothing for children's books
Serious for announcer
Flexible for characters, dialects

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• 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
• Videogames
• 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

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• SAG (US)

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services

My Home Base

Los Angeles, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

English, British, Cockney, French, Middle-European, Irish, Scottish, Maine, Southern USA, Texas, Oklahoma, Russian, Mexican.

My Voice Experience

I'm a pro, even though I just booked my first VO gig here in LA, for Imgene, an international pharmaceutical corporation. It was in-house, meant for sales reps and VERY technical. They were pleased with my performance. As a performer, I was a New York City actor and comedian for 10 years. Did a lot of theater, many nightclubs, college tours. Appeared in over 30 national commercials, mostly on-camera, some voice over work. For the last 20 or so years I've worked mainly as a writer-producer for network TV shows like Gimme a Break, The Hogan Family, Perfect Strangers, That's So Raven. I've missed performing, am getting back to it.

My Training

I studied VO with MJ Lallo. I have a degree in Theater Arts from Trinity College, Hartford CT. As noted above, I have a ton of experience as an actor, a comedian and a writer. I'm a one-stop shop as a performer. Comedy, narration, tags. commercials, announcing. And can write or rewrite copy, whether it's prose or dialogue. I've made 'em laugh and I've made 'em cry. I can deliver the goods.

My Studio Equipment

I am not yet a one-man studio. I have so far recorded my demos and auditions at MJ Studios in Burbank, CA and Voice Trax in Studio City, CA. Both facilities have excellent engineers and do full-service production.

Additional Skills

I am versatile vocally and creatively. I take direction well. If you'd like something to sound more natural, I can fix the copy. If the copy must be read "as written", I can make it sound natural. I'm a little new to voice-over, but an old hand at acting, comedy performing, writing and show business in general. (And I'm fairly pleasant company.)