Glen McCready - Rich, smooth, authoritative, R.P./BBC accent

Rich, smooth, authoritative, R.P./BBC accent

• Glen McCready is registered with Voice123 since Jul 24, 2006.
• Glen McCready started his/her voice over career in 1997.
• Currently Glen McCready is a Premium subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 20
• Glen McCready was last active on Voice123 45 days ago

Voice Description

Glen's voice is versatile - from energetic, dynamic hard sell to velvet, chocolate tones for commercials.
He is a classically trained actor and smooth, rich, Standard English Pronunciation (R.P./BBC English) is a speciality - ideal for corporate narrations.
On audiobooks, he has voiced everything from ancient wizards, crabby old ladies, friendly aliens from outer space, monsters from under the bed to Santa Claus.
He is equally confident with zany/grotesque/outrageous cartoon style voices - from Ren & Stimpy to Disney villain sound-alikes.
For videogames, he has voiced a Russian super-villain, a Japanese gangster, a bank manager from Birmingham (England), a psychotic convict from the US southern states, a crazy old hermit, a guy dying from an intergalactic space plague which has left him with only his head and shoulders(!), a little blue alien and more.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Boy
• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - British
• 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
• Adult content
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for British Equity signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• British Equity

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 voice direction services

My Home Base

London, United Kingdom

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

BBC/R.P./Standard English (think Patrick Stewart, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins), Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Yorkshire (UK), Somerset (UK), London Cockney (UK), American (New York, Southern States, Standard American), South African, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Australian
Characters include: Brit or US geeks, ancient mad professors, Sean Connery, game show hosts, cartoon animals (racoon, bear, squirrel, rabbit, dog - Scooby Doo and Muttley style)

My Voice Experience

Audiobooks: Past Mortem (AudioFile Magazine's Earphones Award Winner); The Gypsy Madonna (AudioFile Magazine's Earphones Award Winner); James & the Alien Experiment (BBC); The Society of Others (W F Howes). His work has been favourably reviewed in the UK national press: Sunday Times and Guardian, as well as in the US AudioFile Magazine and Publisher's Weekly.
Commercials: Rolling Stones Bigger Bang UK Tour, Red Hot Chilli Peppers UK Tour, Il Divo UK Tour, The Who UK Concert, Madonna's Confessions Tour (UK), Strictly Come Dancing - The Live Tour (the original UK version of America's Dancing with the Stars), Rod Stewart (UK tour), Bon Jovi (UK concert), Eric Clapton (UK tour), Guns 'n' Roses (UK tour), Thunderstick Pro (Infomercial)and many, many more.
Corporates: Royal Bank of Scotland; Volvo; BAE Systems; The Scouts; Ritz Carlton Group; SAKS.
Animation: Pixels (Aardman/UK Film Council)
Educational recordings: Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Pearson Education.
On Hold Messages: various UK companies including Abbey Building Society; Travel Bag; Fawesley Hall Hotel.
Radio Drama: BBC Radio 4's Chatterton: The Allington Solution by Peter Ackroyd (May 2008), several plays for BBC Schools' Radio; Artist With Designs for BBC Radio 3's The Verb.

My Training

The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London (3 Year Acting Course, Honours Graduate), comprising intensive voice and speech training, radio drama technique, classical text and all areas vital to a successful voice over artist.

My Studio Equipment

Samson C01U USB Studio Condenser Microphone (voice recordings have been created on my equipment for: radio commercials, on-hold messages, website narrations, corporate narrations, animations, in-store videos and more)

Additional Skills

Glen sings to an excellent standard (High Baritone) and as well as recording songs for children's educational and entertainment projects, has appeared as Edward Lyons in the West End musical Blood Brothers alongside David Cassidy.
Glen reads the International Phonetic Alphabet and recorded the majority of spoken pronunciations on the CD ROM of the Pearson Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (9th Edition) under the direction of J C Wells, Professor of Phonetics in the University of London