Bettina Bauer

kind old lady old witch spooky child happy child sprites, elves, fairies Russian mail order bride Shakespearean and classical language annoying valley girl nagging mother German accent Janis Joplin rocker voice Male voices (see demo)

"My mechanical Medusa Head, on sale through the Grandin Road catalogue and Walgreens, has become quite the hit." I am a chameleon and a multi-lingual character actress. As I transitioned from classical theater to TV cop shows and gritty indie films, I found a niche onscreen as either a hipster or a victim--dark stuff mostly. All of my character work and accents had no home in the realism of the film world so I use them in Audiobooks,having narrated and produced 5 titles on sale through Audible. Combining this darkness with classical training produced a strange alchemy of witchy voices that landed me gigs voicing Halloween novelty toys--you know the ones that people who are NUTS about Halloween buy? As quoted above, my mechanical Medusa Head, on sale through the Grandin Road catalogue and Walgreens, has become quite the hit. I also voiced other novelty toys as kindly witches or even singing Christmas Ornaments (singing Silent Night in French!)for sale in Walmart. Speaking of Walmart, I did an intra-corporate industrial for a Dove-Walmart campaign, that would not be released to me in video form. But I have the voice demo. Directed by Isaak James, a filmmaker I have worked with onscreen.Also in collaboration with Isaak, I wrote, produced, cast and narrated my own Web commercial for an NYC Urgent Care clinic, Emergecare. BFA Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, headed by William Esper Basement Studio, recording area treated to dampen reflections and resonance. Very low noise floor. I use a PG-27 XLR mic and mBox mini interface on a MacBook Pro ProTools, Audacity and Goldwave are used in combination to produce a clean and present sound. I recently changed my name to Fiona for the voice-over world only. I call it my sound-stage name. I am US born and bred and don't want to be mistaken for having a foreign accent. Fluent Turkish (but not a native speaker) Conversational German Self-taught Italian, French, and Danish 7th and 8th grade Spanish In love with all things linguistic: accents, heady text Trained singer