Deborah Sale Butler

Voice Description

My voice bends easily to create smooth narration, bright commercial reads or characters for games and animation (kids voices and tough vixens a specialty). As a Dialect coach in Los Angeles, I'm also adept at a wide range of dialects. Specialties include all British dialects, and American Southern, Brooklyn, Western and Midwestern dialects.

I coach voice-over, and speech for actors over the phone and via computer. For more information on private coaching, please visit my website and go to the "Classes" page.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Child
• Teenage Girl
• Young Adult Female
• Middle Age 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
• 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 AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• AFTRA (US)

• SAG (US)

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

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

None

My Home Base

Los Angeles, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

I coach all dialects and can perform any - specialties: British (any region), Irish (any region), Scottish (Glaswegian), American regional dialects, French, German, Italian, Spanish, etc.

My Voice Experience

Voice 123 CLIENTS:

Fashion Designer II Webgame - host
Wii/Discovery Kids Toys Commercial
Technicolor/"Despereaux game and promo
Spirit Voiceovers
The Painter Law Firm (on hold messaging)
Diana Harrison (edutainment project)
PetVac (national commercial/Internet)
Horse and Rider Magazine (national commercial)
Marathon Ashland Petroleum (industrial training)
KWAV Radio (station imaging)
Something to Smile About (promotional video)
The Restanio Sisters (promotional video)
The Pillow Maker (animated feature)
Sillysaurs (children's educational series)
Hartwood Media (Online instructional series)

COMMERCIAL /20 years commercial production
Current/Recent:

Wii/Discovery Kids Toys Commercial
Technicolor/Despereaux promo
Fruity Pebbles Campaign - Wilma Flintstone
Sharper Image (National Radio)
Proflowers (Regional)
Turbotax for the Web/Intuit (KFWB/KNX - LA, KCBS - San Francisco Radio)
The Los Angeles Times (KFWB/KNX LA Radio)
CT Screening International (National Radio)

ANIMATION and Anime

SD Gundam Force - 52 episodes for Cartoon Network - Shute (Lead)
GunParade March - 12 Episodes for CD release - Mai (Lead)
Marmalade Boy (TV) - Akiko Kitahara; Yayoi's Friend
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - various
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (TV) - Cecile Croomy
Avenger (TV) - Layla Ashley
Appleseed (movie) - Scientist
Buso Renkin - Chitose Tateyama

CD ROM/Online games:

FASHION DESIGNER II - host
DESPEREAUX game - narrator/help character
EVERQUEST (various characters)
EVERQUEST TWO: Revamp - Trainer Marla Gilliam, Lieutenant Delsun, Lyssia, Delnara, Sevri Il' Bethod, Gunta and Emma Torque
WORLD OF WARCRAFT (various characters)
I LOVE BEES/Halo prequel - Gilly
ACCOLADE
Slave Zero – Li
Starcon – Pkunk, Ship’s Computer, Colonist
ACTIVISION
Heavy Gear 2 – Helene del Pulchiano
Civilization: Call to Power – Rebel Colonist
Shanghai: Second Dynasty – Computer, Babysitter
ASCII
Shadow Tower – Featured Characters
Echo Night – Featured Characters
BANDAI/GAMEBOY
SD Gundam Force - Shute
BRODERBUND SOFTWARE
Carmen 2000 – Featured Characters
Where in the USA is Carmen San Diego – Featured Characters
Write, Camera, Action – Lead Help Character
James Discovers Math – Featured Characters
MORGAN INTERACTIVE
Morgan’s Trivia Machine – Title Character and Others
Recess in Greece – Title Character and Others
The Revolutionary War – Title Character and Others
SEGASOFT
The Dirty Dwarves - Featured Characters
101 Dalmatians – Featured Characters
SONY PLAYSTATION
Suikoden 5 - Roy
Horned Owl – Central Command
SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Admiral Williams, Commander Likse

BOOKS-ON-TAPE:

McGraw-Hill – Harvard Health Textbook – Narrator
Soundelux Audio – Wake Up and Smell the Coffee – Narrator
Scholastic Book Services - Zlata’s Diary and Maniac McGee – Narrator and instructional guide

INDUSTRIAL NARRATION:

Spirit Voiceovers - point of purchase descriptions (ongoing)
Ashland Petrolium - instructional series and awards (ongoing)
Hartwood Media - Online instructional series (narrator)
Rail Europe Group - Narrator/Interviewer
LRN - CD Rom corporate legal training software – Narrator (ongoing)
Bank of America - Training video and home software, – Squiggle (animated help character)
Computer Curriculum Corporation - Training video – Narrator
Lateral Communication – ESL instructional tapes – Narrator (series)
Longman – ESL instructional tapes – Narrator (series)
Interactive Audio - Better Homes and Gardens: Cooking for Today – Narrator (series)

ON-HOLD MESSAGING:

Proflowers
The Painter Law Firm
Newmark Advertising

RADIO:

Morning show host - WCCW/FM, Traverse City, MI
Program host - RESCUE DOGS, Animal Radio Network
Radio Imaging - KWAV, Orange County, CA

LOOPING:

Background and principal voice matching for animation, anime, feature film and television including:
Dracula, Boat Trip, Loch Ness, The Prize, Sillysaurs (see Animation above)

My Training

B.F.A. in Theater from Point Park College in Pittsburgh, Improvisational training from the Second City in Chicago and Avery Schrieber's workshops in LA. Additional voice workshops in Looping with Terri Douglas and Sandy Holt and Promo work with Joyce Castellanos in LA.

I have been teaching voice-over workshops for 10 years.

My Studio Equipment

I have a small studio at home, suitable for on-hold messaging and internet broadcast quality recording. For projects with greater technical and sonic requirements, I have an established relationship with Dave and Dave in North Hollywood - a full-service recording studio (). I use them for several of my current voice123 clients and the results have been excellent.

Additional Skills

Great kids voices, cartoon voices and strong promo and direct marketing reads.

On-hold and narration demos available upon request.

Payment Methods Accepted

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

Online Payments Via PayPal

Contact Information

To contact Deborah Sale Butler by email or phone, please click here.