Jessica Summa-Kusiak - Serious, Newsanchor, Narrator, Friend, Classy

Serious, Newsanchor, Narrator, Friend, Classy

• Jessica Summa-Kusiak is registered with Voice123 since Nov 29, 2008.
• Jessica Summa-Kusiak started his/her voice over career in 1984.
• Currently Jessica Summa-Kusiak is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

Serious and trustworthy for narration, sexy and upbeat for commercials, full and confident for singing

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

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

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

Seattle, Washington, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

newsanchor, NPR reporter, Boston accent, Harvard sullen teenager, slacker, ditzy, film noir

My Voice Experience

I grew up in a recording studio. My father is a professional composer in the Boston area (www.kusiakmusic.com) and I am very comfortable in the booth. I have a highly developed ear and professional singing voice. I started my voiceover career as a "bratty preteen" in a commercial for Grillbasa (a doomed hot-dog-kielbasa product). Over the years I have provided voice talent and songs for televised Public Service Announcements, commercial demos (Quaker Oats, Reebok), children's videos (KidVidz), museum installations (Concord Museum, Mount St. Helens), and documentaries (Harvard Institute for International Development BRIDGES Project, Roots of Health). I own a live music venue in Seattle and would like to get back into the voiceover industry to supplement my income. I am easy to work with, focused, versatile, and quick. I learn songs very quickly and have a good range (alto, mezzo-soprano, soprano). Stylistically I am best suited to rock, pop, blues, old R&B (not contemporary), folk, or alt-country.

My Training

I started theater classes at age 10 at the Boston Children's Theater, attended Cambridge Rindge & Latin High where I studied acting all four years, and studied acting and voice (opera, showtunes, blues) at Sarah Lawrence College in New York (B.A.). I taught myself guitar and started a rock band after moving to Seattle, played most major venues and self-released a CD in 2001 (Hypermobile, Ripley, at Amazon.com), which was recorded at Hanszek Audio and Studio Litho.