Karen Kohler - Bilingual, Sexy, Warm, Confident, Intelligent

Bilingual, Sexy, Warm, Confident, Intelligent

• Karen Kohler is registered with Voice123 since Feb 23, 2009.
• Karen Kohler started his/her voice over career in 1998.
• Currently Karen Kohler is a Premium subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 105
• Karen Kohler has been active on Voice123 during the past 48 hours

Voice Description

Mid register is luscious, womanly and plangent. Upper register can be girlish, light and accessible. Voice is inviting and exudes warmth for narrations; is sexy, witty and sensual for commercials; and authoritative, intelligent and confident for presentations.

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
• German

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
• I have ISDN in my studio
• I have Phone Patch 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 translation services
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer voice direction services
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

My voice is unique in that I am accent-free in both English and German. I do a Texas dialect (lived there for 15 years), and a New York dialect (was raised there and live there now), and a German accent.

My Voice Experience

My career as a singer calls for radio interviews in many markets in the U.S., Europe and Australia.

I spent years as an audiobook reader in literature and German Language studies for "Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic," and have done museum tour narrations and Corporate phone greetings and voicemail trees for companies such as Whole Foods Market.

I'm a professional singer, actress and recording artist with a couple of decades of experience on stage and in recording studios. I'm completely at home in a studio setting, well versed in the process and efficient/cost-effective in my studio time. I augment my performance career as a stage director and teach university-level master classes in vocal performance and acting.

My Training

Professional, multiple award-winning Off-Broadway singer/actress/producer since 1998.

BA cum laude, University of Arizona, 1985.

Private voice and performance coach, university master class instructor.

Award-winning festival producer in New York City, founder/artistic director of an award-winning international ensemble of singers and actors.

My Studio Equipment

I have several studio options available to me which include: Neumann U87, Samson C01U, Apogee converter, Logic, Pro Tools, Digital Performer, Audacity, phone patch, ftp upload, ISDN/ADSL.

Additional Skills

I'm German-born, American-raised and speak both languages (technically and conversationally) without accent. I have conversational facility in Spanish and French and sing regularly in both languages. Additionally, I have good pronunication in Italian, Yiddish and Portuguese. I lived in Texas for 15 years and can handle that dialect, a New York dialect and a German accent.

I'm a contract translator (English/German) of business documents, historical documents, personal letters and song lyrics. Of the latter, I have copyrighted several of my own original translations.