Genevieve Levin

Voice Description

Flexible. Warm and natural, upbeat and enthusiastic, droll and commiserating for commercials; intellectual and comfortable with technical and medical terminology; variety of character voices and dialects for audiobooks, animation, and video games.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Baby
• 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
• 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 AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• AFTRA (US)

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

None

My Home Base

Simi Valley, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Intermediate speaker of Japanese and Spanish. Irish, German, Japanese, British, Cockney, London, and Southern accents, and pretty quick to learn new ones. Characterizations include: small child, teenage girl, cheerleader, geek girl, student, teacher, lawyer, doctor, receptionist, office worker, best friend, mother, caregiver, wacko.

My Voice Experience

If you want the truth, I've been practicing voiceover since I was two. My parents were very much in favor of us all reading aloud to one another, and they passed on to me the enjoyment of bringing a story and characters to life using my voice. Along with being a lifelong stage actor, I've read aloud all my life to anyone I could get to sit still long enough. I signed up for online communities and newsletters to learn about the voiceover community, and participated in amateur projects to gain experience. When I moved to Los Angeles, I contacted Pat Fraley, whose name I had from Susan Berkeley's newsletters, and he was kind enough to put me in touch with two of his students, who gave me recommendations of places and people with whom I should train. I've tried to follow through on as many of those as I can, taking multiple classes in commercial, promo, animation, and audiobook technique, and I continue to practice on my own daily and sign up for every teleseminar I can find.

What can I read for you?

My Training

I received a BA in Acting from Illinois Wesleyan University. Since then, I've studied Voice-Over for the Actor (levels 1 and 2), Animation, and Promos at Kalmenson & Kalmenson, Commercial Voice-Over (Intermediate) at The Voicecaster, Animation Voice-Over with Bob Bergen, and Audiobook Narration with Pat Fraley. I receive and read Susan Berkeley's two industry e-newsletters (The Voice Coach and Inside Voice Over) on a weekly basis, as well as e-newsletters from the Voice Acting Academy. I attend the weekly workout groups at the Voicecaster whenever I can, and I audition regularly there.

I've also trained much more in tradition acting, both on stage and on camera, and in singing (I'm a soprano). I perform with the Actors Repertory Theatre of Simi, most recently in Jesus Christ Superstar.

I spent four years with LM Consultants, Inc., as a receptionist and liaison with clients and subcontractors; before that, I worked about five summers with KaVo America as a backup receptionist.

To keep my reading-aloud skills sharp, I volunteer for Storytime at the Simi Valley Library twice a month, where I read several stories to a group of, on average, about thirty children and their parents.

My Studio Equipment

I have a Snowball mic and a laptop, as well as Audacity, so I can record auditions from my home. I hope to have a full studio at some point; in the meantime, when I need a studio, I can easily go to the Voicecaster and take advantage of their 'VO and Go' program. I prefer that, because then I have the services of an engineer and director.

Additional Skills

I'm a certified massage therapist, a cat and dog owner, and an avid organizer. I have a second-degree brown belt in karate and am trained in stage combat. I'm addicted to my iPhone. I'm also one of the biggest geeks I know, being a fan of almost anything in the fantasy and sci-fi genre as well as roleplaying games, anime and manga, and comics. I get along well with people. Also, I recently bought my first home! Now I'm in the process of making it livable...

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal

Contact Information

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