Hedley Grenfell-Banks - Warm, round - Hedley Grenfell-Banks at Voice123

Warm, round

• Hedley Grenfell-Banks is registered with Voice123 since May 19, 2005.
• Hedley Grenfell-Banks started his/her voice over career in .
• Currently Hedley Grenfell-Banks is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

a very f.lexible voice, generally warm and round but capable of great variation. All Uk dialects available, plus native-level French, excellent German and Italian.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

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

• English - British
• German
• Italian

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Others (on-camera, informercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

Unknown - Click here to ask Hedley Grenfell-Banks

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I have ISDN in my studio
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask Hedley Grenfell-Banks

My Voice Experience

Oh yes, I've played 'em all in my time.

Joseph, Chief Shepherd, Balthasar, seventh disciple at the Last Supper, Nativity Plays, Passion Plays, Mystery Plays, Miracle Plays. Been there, done that, seen the video, got the T-shirt. I played a one-eyed man called Lampredo in a Belgian play by a bloke called Ghelderode, and I was the Narrator in a disastrous attempt by the University Indian Society to perform Sacrifice, a heavily dramatic piece by Rabindranath Tagore, without having the audience weep with laughter.

However, as an actor with little physical talent, a potentially embarrassing memory but lots of vocal power and versatility, a large proportion of my dramatic work has consisted of Voices Off; more specifically, and most often, the Voice of God.

I have sat, let me tell you, or clung or swung precariously and trembling, in some dark, dusty and distinctly dodgy places in order to pick up the distance and echoes usually considered necessary to this rather specialised branch of the acting profession.

The fly gallery of a theatre is comparatively comfortable, usually about twenty feet in the air at one side of the stage, but infested with urgent stagecrew who rush around hauling on ropes and asking one to get out of the way in a manner in no way consonant with the dignity of divinity. Infinitely worse is the purgatory known as The Grid, an assemblage of closely-spaced beams which span the stage at a height of forty feet or so, the timbers covered in dust (watch out for Heavenly sneezes) and the spaces between them sickeningly deep and adequately wide for a nasty accident. The Grid is approached by a sort of vertical tunnel known as a Jacob's ladder, so it appeals to directors as a place to put the Almighty. In one theatre, the counter-weight for the front tabs (curtains to you amateurs) ran alongside the ladder, and one of God's secondary jobs was to ride down on it if extra weight were needed at curtain-up time. Churches, too, have equally terrifying eminences. At St. James', Grimsby I was God twice, once from halfway up the transept wall and once (best of all) from high inside the Organ. On the only occasion when I was asked to position another person for this purpose, the God in question chickened out at the westernmost end of the gallery and clung gibbering to the woodwork throughout his performance.

My Training

good grief. Training? Forty years' experience as actor, director, teacher, voice off, travelling lecturer, performer, dramatic reader, narrator....

My Studio Equipment

Unknown - Click here to ask Hedley Grenfell-Banks

Additional Skills

I spent 30 years in Education, 10 in Hospitality, 7 as a travelling lecturer, 7 restoring an ancient house (a lot of these overlapped, you understand), and performed in various ways throughout. Voice, however, is my principal skill.