Kathy Long - warm friendly professional natural medical/tech.

warm friendly professional natural medical/tech.

• Kathy Long is registered with Voice123 since Nov 02, 2009.
• Kathy Long started his/her voice over career in 1980.
• Currently Kathy Long is a Premium subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 66
• Kathy Long was last active on Voice123 3 days ago

Voice Description

Warm and friendly, mom-like
Deep, sophisticated for high-end retail or professional business Phone greetings and on-hold messages
Soft or hard sell energy for commercial copy
Credible, natural, relaxed conversational voice for narrations
Very smooth professional and deliberate straight reads for e-learning, instructional or technical copy.
Expressive, engaging, and energetic

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Female
• Middle Age Female
• Senior 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
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• 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

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• 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

Philadelphia area, Pennsylvania, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Can use Southern, British, Irish Brogue or New York accents for character commercial reads.

My Voice Experience

Having studied Voice and Theater in college, I began my 30 year career in V.O. work as the voice of a local amusement park on their narrated rides. As a singer and actress, knowing how to breath, enunciate, and project, has been quite beneficial to my V.O. Career. Since that time, I have worked with many local, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and New Jersey studios, and have voiced many commercials, both locally and regionally, now even nationally, for everything from amusement parks (Busch Gardens Williamsburg), to department stores (Bon Ton - Strawbridge and Clothier), food stores (Stauffers, Giant/Martin/Topps food stores), Health Systems (PinnacleHealth, Jefferson University Hospital, Reading Hospital). More recently, I have been the Narrator in many e-learning projects for large (and small) pharmaceutical companies (Wyeth,AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Hoffman-La Roche, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Takeda, Genentech, Novo-Nordisk) for pharma training, and continuing medical education for Doctors and Medical professionals. I also have been a 'guest host' on QVC for the past 6 years, and was employed by QVC as Voice Over talent for their on air promos and advertising.

My Training

25+ yrs. Voice-over experience
Sales training for On-Air Shopping Channels (QVC)-Donna Hoffman
several years as an On-air Product Spokes
Several years Vocal Coaching (Thom Houser)
B.A. in Theater and Communications, Westminster College
Singer/Actress- Many roles over many years

My Studio Equipment

TASCAM Interface recording equipment. Shure SM58 microphone. Can record at home, convert to Mp3 files, and send via email, as well as via FTP. Access to local recording studio who are able to transfer sound files in many ways, and have phone patch capabilities. They can also add music, sfx, and edit.

Additional Skills

I'm versatile, and take direction well. My composition skills/editing are excellent, and, if asked, I often assist in adjusting copy to make it more readable(and understandable). I take an interest is the subject matter, and want to sound like I am knowledgeable about it- credibility is a great factor. Although I specialize in medical/pharma narrations with medical terms and technical jargon, I can read commercial character lines with expression and credibility as well. I can be a mom, best friend, next door neighbor, senior, professional, doctor, lawyer, nurse or teacher.
Also, as a professional,it is my goal to do my job efficiently and effectively, and will have fun with you as well. With my background in Theater, Acting, Performing, and on-camera sales, I am engaging, energetic, and expressive, and can make even the dryest narration easy to listen to and understandable. Give me a try!