Karen Oliver - Warm, intelligent, friendly, creative wife & mom

Warm, intelligent, friendly, creative wife & mom

• Karen Oliver is registered with Voice123 since Sep 06, 2007.
• Karen Oliver started his/her voice over career in 1990.
• Currently Karen Oliver is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

Warm, intelligent, technical, conversational, smooth, professional, mothering, creative, calm, funny.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Boy
• 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
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, 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 deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer voice direction services
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Orange County, San Diego, LA, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask Karen Oliver

My Voice Experience

Voiceover booth director for top agency in the 1990's.
Worked with Jim Carrey, Jack Angel, Charlie Adler, and other top voice over artists
Regular voiceover workshop attendance - Beverly Bremers Voicercise.
Voiceover editor for animation, Klasky-Csupo, Rugrats.
Background SFX editor Klasky-Csupo, Duckman.

My Training

Broadcast Radio and TV production,University of Maryland
Syracuse Stage experience
Wally Burr Recording
Louise Chamis Workshop
Arlene Thornton agency recording booth director
McCoy Productions, LA editor, writer, engineer
Klasky-Csupo animation series voice recording and editing
ADR assistant, Skywalker Sound

My Studio Equipment

I have an Alesis USB mic and an Apple G4 Mac with editing software. I have digital audio editing and production experience dating back to the early days of digital audio workstations. I am competent in editing platforms such as Garageband, Protools, Soundtools and Audacity.

Additional Skills

Excellent ability to sight-read technical terms and cold read difficult terminology. Ability to turn most technical and complicated verbiage into conversational, easy to interpret and interesting information for the listener.
Experience in many recording studios as engineer, director and editor.