Voice Description

Especially strong on young teenage voices for manga/anime and motherly UK storytelling! Also very good at children-aimed singing
Energetic, prissy, preppy, authoritative, proper, fun, caring, helpful, cheerful, relaxed
Character voice acting, sexy, silly, posh, upper class, flirty, young, old, comic, child, stressed, scary and evil!
Accents: 'Accentless' English; Native UK, British: Yorkshire, Lancashire, Scottish - Edinburgh, Angus, Oxford, London, Queen's English, South East England, Northern England, Liverpool, Birmingham; US American; French - Picardie, English with French accent; German - Hessen.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Baby
• Child
• Teenage Girl
• Teenage Boy
• Young Adult Female
• Middle Age Female
• Senior Female

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

• English - British
• English - North American
• French - European
• German
• Japanese

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

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

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer translation services

My Home Base

Atsugi, Japan

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

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My Voice Experience

Voices for Nintendo DS, including lead (Gaby) and support characters for Dimple's Kira Kira Pop Princess, narration for English CDs in Japan including One Word, One Phrase series, on hold, phone and voice mail messaging, stage work (singing and speech acting) in English, Japanese, Italian, French and German including Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, Purcell Room, Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, Llangollen International Pavillion, Newman Rooms, Holywell Music Room, English Touring Opera, Opera Mint, Oxford Touring Opera, Oxford Festival Opera, Oxford German Players and British Youth Opera. Vocal coaching for actors and singers, including The Comedy Store, Tokyo, and Showa Ongaku Daigaku Conservatory in Japan. Opera, jazz, pop, rock and musical singing. Worked as translator for medical company in Brussels, Paris and Frankfurt. Former BBC News Subtitler at TV Centre, London. Given presentations at international conferences including the International Bible Studies Conference.

My Training

PG Dip (Voice) Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Postgraduate Diploma in Performance and Singing
BA Hons Modern Languages (French and German), Keble College, University of Oxford
MA Literary Translation (French), University of Exeter

My Studio Equipment

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Additional Skills

Proofreading, translation, writing, coaching

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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Additional Information