Voice Description

Articulate, professional, authentic, warm, genuine ... Joy Katzen-Guthrie's versatile and vibrant voice and personality, as well as her superb production and editing skills, have provided distinctive, rich, and elegant voice work and production in documentary, corporate, talk and interview, broadcast, commercial, internet, training, and IVR projects. Her reading is assured, powerful, and worldly, credible and believable with even the most technical copy and at any pace. Highly efficient in every aspect of her work, Joy’s voice and production enhances any project. Says Lisa Livingston of Bluezoom Sensory Marketing: “Joy lives up to her name by being an actual joy to work with. She is extremely professional and provides an extraordinarily fast turn-around. Her voice greatly improved our client's technical demonstration CD adding a smooth and soothing element to the final product. I would highly recommend her to anyone looking for quality voice over work.”

Appealing, accurate, authoritative, clear-speaking, friendly, welcoming, reliable, trustworthy, credible, and genuine, Joy is particularly noted for superb annunciation and diction, versatiity, immediacy, and quality of reading, editing, and turnaround, both for spoken and sung voice projects. A distinctive voice artist with a deep, smooth lower register, rich, warm, memorable. Joy's Radio, Podcast, Business, Instruction, and Web Narration and Commercial Voice Work is relatable, friendly, polished, elegant, sincere, honest, wise, credible, and believable with even the most technical copy. Trustworthy, knowledgeable, approachable, real, direct and likeable, authoritative, clear, sincere, convincing, and confident. A notably fine soft sell with warm, calm, peaceful, mild, smooth, delicate, artistic, rich, soft reads. Sophisticated, elegant, knowledgeable, high-end, cosmopolitan, worldly, versatile. Intriguing, interesting, building curiosity. Equally comfortable with bold, confident, assured, strong, powerful, full of life, energetic, positive, cheerful, lively, courageous, upbeat, convincing, secure, solid, firm, high-energy copy.

Every syllable, every word is clear, distinct, natural, and believable, no matter the pace. Difficult pronunciations are never an issue. Young adult and middle-aged voices are greatest strengths. Voice has a particularly assured, mature, knowledgeable character.

Strong background in radio documentary, news, human interest, public service. Convincing and credible narration, business-related, newsy, informational, logical and journalistic copy, podcast, corporate and industrial projects, audiobook, technical. Training and instructional materials, documentary, interview, and radio/TV imaging. Additional strengths include: characters, voice acting, conversational, Southern accent. Sexy, sultry, intimate, or sensual voice. Entertaining, humorous, sarcastic, serious, authority figures, innocent. Excitable, enthusiastic, fun, engaging, light-hearted, playful, cheerful, upbeat, happy, fresh, friendly, kind, welcoming. Intuitive, whispering, soft, thoughtful, contemplative, deep. Encouraging, hopeful, positive, uplifting, optimistic, pleasant, natural, confident. Highly appropriate for artistic projects, commercials, drama, announcements, greetings, web, podcast, non-fiction and fiction audiobooks, narration, and magazine program formats.

Joy's work includes an extensive repertoire of Hebrew and Yiddish music. Comfortable with the Hebrew language as well as transliterations of Hebrew in virtually any spelling. Frequent traveler to China with strong familiarity of Chinese pronunciation of Pinyin [Standard Mandarin] transliteration as well as Wade-Giles transliteration.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Female
• Middle Age Female

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

• English - North American

Recording Categories I Offer

• 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

• Jobs for ACTRA (Canada) signatories

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for British Equity signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

• Jobs for Union des Artistes (Canada) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

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 radio ad production services

My Home Base

Tampa/Sarasota/West Central Florida, Florida, United States

Accents & Dialects

Hebrew
Mandarin Chinese

My Voice Experience

Native of Memphis, Tennessee native, home has been in the Tampa Bay area since 1981. Versatile career as broadcast producer and manager, composer/lyricist/recording artist, heritage tour leader, and instructor/lecturer.

Stephens College (Columbia, MO) graduate with BA (magna cum laude) and BFA (cum laude) degrees in Broadcast Communications and Music. Career beginning as Tampa Bay’s WPLP/News-Talk Radio as Traffic Director, then Executive Producer, then Operations Manager. Heard in commercials, public service programming, and as weekly talk host. Studio recording, music performance, and composition with simultaneous radio or voice over career as producer and announcer for 27 years. Speak and sing in concert, for colleges, universities, study groups, civic and religious organizations, and conventions/expos/seminars. A repertoire of thousands of songs. Operate Tune-of-the-Century Music® studios in the Tampa Bay/West Central Florida area with husband, Mark. Give lectures and concerts worldwide. Produce, mix, and master various recording projects, both musical and spoken word, in my studio and at remote locations. Active session musician, have been studio vocalist/keyboardist/composer for advertising, educational, and entertainment productions on TV, radio, cable, internet. Songwriting, Addy, and Silver Angel Awards.

Instructor, speaker, and concert artist with the University of South Florida’s OLLI Institute (Tampa), Eckerd College OLLI Institute (St. Petersburg), Eckerd College Elderhostel, Brandeis University Study Group (Boca Raton), Senior Summer School (Miami) and others. Programs consistently rated among the highest (5 stars) by students of all ages. Contributing writer to the 2007 edition of the Encylopedia Judaica. Photos have appeared in newspapers, magazines, journals, and internet sites from around the world. Received appointments to the Florida Artist Residency Directory in 1996 and 1999, funded by the State Division of Cultural Affairs. [Artist Residencies place practicing, professional artists in Florida Schools and Community Colleges to teach all aspects of their art form.] Have received two Arts Resource Fund performance arts grants from the Pinellas County Arts Council.

My Training

Education-Extracurricular: Speech tournament winner, audio, radio, television, film technical, creative, and business courses, piano performance, theory, music history, chamber music, conducting, orchestration, chorus and chamber choir. Campus radio/TV staff, conceived, developed, and established more than a dozen radio documentary, news, and public affairs program series. Anchored TV news, considerable experience producing, directing, writing/scripting, editing, scoring, operating camera, announcing, and performance. Scored and documented productions of the Stephens Theatre Department, consistently ranked one of the finest in the nation.

Professional: Keynote speaker, teacher, lecturer. Tampa Bay’s WPLP News-Talk Radio (Traffic Director/Executive Producer/Operations Manager), WDAE-AM, WUSA-FM, WXCR-Classics 92 FM as announcer/producer. Worked for or with some of the finest voices/personalities in the broadcast business, including Michael Spears, Lora Cain, Jim Nettleton, David Gold, Dan Johnson. Director/Owner of Tune-of-the-Century Music® studio/broadcast systems integration business. Continuous performances since 1981 as soloist and with orchestras and bands both as member and leader. Highly adept in computer photo and graphic, audio and video editing, image, and web building skills.

My Studio Equipment

MAC AND PC-BASED PRO-TOOLS DIGITAL RECORDING STUDIO
Pro Tools TDM System with 36 channels of I/O
Microphones include Neumann, Soundelux, Sennheiser, AKG, Shure, Audio-Technica, Beyer
Benchmark Industries & ATI mic pre-amps
UREI processing
Meyer-HD1 Mid-field monitors
Yamaha NS10 Near-field monitors
Pacific Recorders & Engineering ABX console
Custom-designed sound treatments by Acoustic Sciences Corporation (ASC)
Sound Forge 8.0 & CD Architect 5.2 Software
Steinberg Wavelab & M-Powered Pro Tools 7.1 PC, TDM Protools 6.1 MAC, TDM Protools 5.1.1 MAC
Variety of Waves Plug-ins

High-speed cable for uploading MP3, WAV, AIF files
Overnight CD-R/Data DVD and DAT
24-hour turnaround/same-day delivery

I work with other studios in the Tampa Bay Area that provide ISDN services

Additional Skills

Nearly three decades of experience as a lecturer/teacher/speaker brings a knowledge of, interest in, and familiarity with a wide range of topics. Highly versatile, well-read in subjects of music, art, philosophy, history, science, religion/faith, political science. Writer of non-fiction and fiction, news, poetry, song, and prose. An excellent grammarian, I served as an English B.A. Assistant at Stephens College for four years, coaching students in essential and creative English reading, writing, and comprehension skills. An excellent listener and observer, I work intuitively in all I do to sense the goal of the project and relate it with ease.

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Credit cards
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in any currency
• Wire transfers

Online Payments Via PayPal

Contact Information

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