John M Clark - Baritone-Tenor, whimsical, strange, neurotic, dry

Baritone-Tenor, whimsical, strange, neurotic, dry

• John M Clark is registered with Voice123 since Feb 10, 2006.
• John M Clark started his/her voice over career in 2005.
• Currently John M Clark is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0
• John M Clark was last active on Voice123 8 days ago

Voice Description

My voice has been described as having a voice of its own, depending on how much I use the gifted mimicry I've been born with half a century ago. Growing up in the NY metro area, and having first cousins in the NJ area, I am extremely fluent in Brooklyn accents (there are at least three distinct idioms I can present from the First City) and also the flat-voweled speech more common as one travels south on I-95. My best impersonations can be described, not as impressions but rather experiences and include NY newscasters (Cronkite, Osgood, Adams's (Mason and Noah), Siegel, Francesa, for example) as well as many celluloid male voices in the lower-tone regions. One notable exception is of the late Joe Feeney of Lawrence Welk Show fame, but that consists of pretty much one high A note, of course in context of a song parody. Another feature of my voice is the ability to speak at an extremely rapid pace while saying basically nothing of substance - again, a NY influence no doubt. English spoken through non-native lips (with Spanish, French, Slovak, and Canadian a specialty) is also a veritable uncharted territory of mine.

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
• English - North American
• English - Other

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, informercials, 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
• I have ISDN in my studio
• 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 offer copywriting services

My Home Base

Wantagh, New York, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask John M Clark

My Voice Experience

My experience has more to do with the range of the experimental and avant-garde than any body of recorded work - my laboratory is my personal vehicle, and the voice-over work occurs while commuting to and from work, or on long car trips (the latter often punctuated with constructive criticism form wife and daughter) as well. Of course it's only avant-garde if those other drivers around me pay any attention at all, so that's the experimental part as well. Only once did a cop pull me over for excessive animation and let me off with just a warning (he sounded like Broderick Crawford) and a license check.

I have recorded celebrity impressions on telephone answering machines for our family and friends, but I've learned that many people circulate such numbers merely to listen to the impression and not to actually leave information, so that's at a real standstill at the moment.

My Training

My profession of social work requires me to spend six or seven hours listening and talking to people, so that really is my essential resource. I do perform dramatic interpretation at my local church, where I was trained in a traditional S-A-T-B choir beginning in 1966, also appeared in a Gilbert and Sullivan show ("Patience," 1993) as a favor to a friend and had a literal ball with the language in that farce.

My Studio Equipment

Unknown - Click here to ask John M Clark

Additional Skills

In summary, I am seeking to trailblaze into this extremely interesting field as an "artist-naif," which loosely translated means "incredibly egotistical for such lack of experience and dearth of training." I am open to opportunities to be mentored or apprenticed (little or no compensation) if there is a credible source out there looking for a limited challenge.