Laurel Armstrong - pleasant melodic mid-range - Laurel Armstrong at Voice123

pleasant melodic mid-range

• Laurel Armstrong is registered with Voice123 since May 31, 2008.
• Laurel Armstrong started his/her voice over career in 2006.
• Currently Laurel Armstrong is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

Smooth, warm, and sincere for narrations and presentations (usually in the lower-middle registers)

Friendly, bright and sincere for most commercials (register depends on character)

Malleable voice qualities for character pieces including: Nasal, shrill, loud, screechy, gravely, deep, sexy, pinched, throaty, lisp, fun, drowsy, slow, swallowed, delicate, sweet, broad and others depending on need.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Baby
• Child
• Teenage Girl
• 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
• 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

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

None

My Home Base

Provo, Utah, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Standard British, English, Cockney, Irish, German, French, Parisian, Southern, Texan, Brooklyn, Midwest, Canadian, Country, Japanese, animal voices, cats, birds, blenders

My Voice Experience

I have always been drawn to voice-over work since I knew what cartoons were. However, anyone reading this probably just cares if I'm good or not at doing it, so let's get to the point.

My total experience includes over 15 years of theater and music training, but you can read more about that below, so here's a synopsis of just voice-over work in the last 2.5 years:

-Character voice-over for Library of Congress READ Campaign radio spot. Cast as Ella Enchanted (teen girl.)

-Multiple jobs with the company "Leave Me on Hold" doing voice-overs for Premier Schools, Diggity-Dog Resort, Innovative Spas and Bella Rose Salon. Cast as a coworker, a cat, a mom/wife, and the "best-friend type."

-Straight voice-over work for almost all of Proton Communication's online training courses. These courses are sold to business and state-run organizations across the country.

-Character/acting voice-over for the New Play Project in Provo, UT. The play "Happy Little Secrets" was completely read/recorded for availability on-line. Cast as the lead, Claire, an intelligent woman in her early 20's.

-Two character voice-overs for an ESL educational cartoon produced by BYU. Cast as a little country boy, Wilby, and a Southern-Belle, Annabelle.

-Straight voice-over on a video add for a BYU restaurant, The Sky Room. The add was shown on KBYU.

-Straight voice-over done for sections of audio textbooks used for BYU students with reading diasabilities.

My Training

I'll give the overview first, then a few specifics. If this is too messy, or you would like more information, you can always Email me at: Laurelsvoice@gmail.com for the full, neatly-printed-out theater, film, and voice-over resumes.

2.5 years of voice-over training/experience
4 years of film training/experience
4.5 years of comedy, and improv training/performance
15 years of theater training/performance
20 years of musical training/performance in singing, basic songwriting and piano
*Almost done with a degree in musical theater from BYU

Voice-over training highlights:
-Took voice-over acting class twice at BYU. Taught by Christopher Miller, a professional VO artist/actor.
-Took dialects acting class at BYU. Taught by Stephanie Breinholt; also a professional VO artist/actress.

Film training Highlights:
-Took film-acting class from Anne-Sward Hansen, UT SAG representative.
-On-camera training in Minneapolis from Kurt Akerlind, a top casting director in the Midwest.
-Acted in several independent and student films.

Comedy Training/Performance Highlights:
-Created, wrote, performed and directed original material as part of BYU's highly popular sketch group, Divine Comedy.
-Performed at Second City's student workshop (Las Vegas) with Divine Comedy.
-Multiple improv classes throughout high school and college

Theater training highlights:
-Took classes for five years at the Tony-award winning Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis. Classes were usually taught by company members.
-Have almost completed my degree in music-dance-theater from BYU's competitive program

Musical training/performance Highlights:
-Sang in Japan for a year at Universal Studios in Osaka.
-Trained vocally in classical, pop, jazz, and musical theater/belt styles from professionals in Minneapolis as well as Brigham Young University.
-Took songwriting at BYU from Ron Simpson
-Passed the AP music theory test!

My Studio Equipment

My husband is a filmmaker with experience in sound engineering and recording. We sometimes use our home for recording, but have access to a professional studio as well.

Additional Skills

I have a lot of background and experience in theater, music, comedy, dance and live performance. I understand the importance of not only making something sound good and pleasant, but making it sound real and present!

Additionally I have traveled and lived in Japan, Namibia, South Carolina, Minnesota, and Utah. It feeds my fascination of different voices and sounds.