Laurette Willis

Known as "The Woman of 101 Voices" on the NY stage - (was "Betty Boop Off-Broadway"): Child voices, Kate Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Flipper! Valley girl, tough New York doll, Locust Valley Lockjaw upper crust, Ma Kettle, dotty British matron, The Queen. Accents ranging from a variety of North American English (New York, New England, Southern, Texas), to British (upper class, BBC or Cockney), Irish, Scottish, Australian, East Indian, Israeli, French, Spanish and Asian. I speak some Spanish, Hebrew and Cherokee. I also do animal sounds (dog, cat, sheep, goat, dolphin, hawk, sea gull) and sound effects (police siren, jungle bird calls). Blessed with a "good ear," I can easily mimic almost any voice I hear (used to drive my mother crazy!!!). As a Vocal Caricaturist, I enjoy working with clients to create character voices for commercials, audiobooks, cartoons, videogames and educational software.

I have been blessed to do both straight, solid narration for industrials (Dollar Rent-a-Car), wacky cartoon voices (HeartSoft Educational Software), spokesperson and character voices for numerous TV and radio commercials (from L'Oreal to the Tulsa State Fair's Singing Cow! - numerous nationwide spots for award-winning Cloud 9 Studios in Tulsa, OK 1991 to present), audiobooks, cartoons (Impact Productions), radio station liners (the voice of the Oasis Radio Network), plus DVDs for Harvest House Publishers. I've been a professional actor, author and playwright for over 25 years (). Studied Theater Arts, Speech and Voice at: New York University Circle-in-the-Square Herbert Berghof Studios University of London University of Nevada, Reno I have taught Theater and Voice at: Northeastern University University of Central Oklahoma Bartlesville Community Arts Center 1993-present - A Touring Artist & Teaching Artist funded by and on the Rosters of: Oklahoma Arts Council Mid-America Arts Alliance Recorders: Alesis ADAT ProTools: Digi001(pc) Digi003(mac) mbox2 (for mobile) Console: Vintage Yamaha MC 2404 Microphones: AKG 3000B Sterling Audio ST 55 SM 57s (3) SM 58S (2) beta 58S (2) Sennheiser MD 421 AKG D112 Samick CO2 (2) Nady RSM2 Ribbon mic Outboard: DBX 166 Compressor Behringer T1953 Software: ProTools Waves Diamond Bundle Reason Melodyne Studio Computing: Custom built PC 1.3Mhz 1.5gb of ram 1.6Mhz PowerMac G5 4gb of ram 46" Samsung SyncMater Monitor Amps: '58 Gibson Skylark Vox AC-15 Fender Deville 59' Fender Harvard Orange Tiny Terror(head) Custom tuck-n-roll 100 Guitars: '62 Harmmony hollow body '66 harmony(dual humbucker) epiphone les paul standard strat '56 Tusca (airline style) Martin DXCE-1 '78 Alverez dreadnought Fender P Bass Processing: boss ds-1 distortion boss digital delay(dd-6) (dd-3) fuzz face fulltone fulldrive 2 dod 250 keyboards and organs: '68 Hammond A105(B3) w/122 Leslie Rotating speaker '67 Hammond CV w/Hammond Tone Cab Fender Rhodes 73 (silver top) '20's Baldwin "Monarch" Upright '71 Jen syn1000(monophonic analog synth) '79 Lowry Tennie Jeanie organ '59 Yamaha Electone Air organs(3) Casio SK-1 Concertmate 570 145 Leslie Rotating Speaker(old single-speed) Drums: '60's Gretsch 28" kick drum '70's Slingerland 28" kick drum '60's Apollo kit(20", 12", 16") '60's Lido kit(slingerland copy)(22" 14" 16") '76 Ludwig Acrolite snare Mapex mars-pro (22",13",14",16") Mapex maple snare cb snare Saibian AAX studio hi-hats, and matching 16" crash Saibian Hand Hammered 20" ride '40's 12" sizzler (Ludwig/Paiste) I am a published author with Harvest House Publishers, so I can assist in the area of copywriting. As an award-winning actor and playwright, I present one-woman shows (from historical to hysterical!) at theaters, universities, conferences, schools, churches, corporate events and retreats. I have performed for US troops with the USO in Asia, over 500,000 students, on board the Delta Queen for the Smithsonian and for the President and nation's Governors at the National Governors' Conference. As the director of DoveTale Productions since 1993, I have directed and performed in over a dozen original plays and musicals, including the 12-week summer production I wrote for the Cherokee National Museum and Heritage Center, "Under the Cherokee Moon," now in its third season. I have two television shows, one of which has been sold to TBN, the world's largest television network. "PraiseMoves Kids!" on their Smile of a Child Network, is the first faith and fitness show for children, reaching 100-300 million people globally. My daily "Fitness for His Witness" nugget is heard on radio networks throughout the U.S. Not that it would help with voice-overs, but I'm also a ventriloquist (but how could you tell on v/o?). I have produced 10 DVDs of my material for Harvest House Publishers and through my DoveTale Productions company, including Fitness, Drama and Teaching DVDs. I created the PowerMoves Kids program/curriculum, the first Character Education & Fitness program for the classroom, now being used in PK-8 schools in the U.S. and Canada. I have worked extensively as a presenter, spokesperson, keynote speaker and workshop leader in the following settings: educational (PK thru university) corporate and club-related events entertainment (stage, film, TV, radio) church conferences and retreats news media (radio and television) fitness centers literary conferences and libraries