Laurinda Barrett

Mid-Atlantic Upscale diction, Everyday standard American english, Mid West USA, British/standard British, Additional characterizations are drawn from the text offered. I have a flexible voice and a good ear.   (see Audiobook clips)

My voice has been used in theater, film, and television  all my 40+ years in professional life.  I started professionally working OFF-B'way at the Shakespearewrights (2 Years) playing Portia, Olivia and Lady MacDuff followed by OFF B'Way roles and many years of regional theater across the US plus membership in the Circle Rep Lab.   Basically I am a theater person of the 1950's who started when Off-Braodway began and have never stopped. CAEDMON RECORDS recorded a production of Ah!Wilderness by Eugene O'Neil in which I played Aunt Lily. AEA-AFTRA-SAG Commercials:   20-year client of CESD that includes the original national campaign for ASPERCREAM Most recent:  DELTA , FERMARA Broadway: EQUUS featured with  Tony Perkins, Alex McGowan & Leonard Nimoy TOO LATE THE PHALAROPE Broadway debut opposite Barry Sullivan THE GIRLS IIN 509 featured with Imogen Coca & Peggy Wood THE MIRACLE WORKER original national tour Off-Broadway LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER  (Litwing member / script evaluations and actor)  WE CAN DO IT (Chasama 2004) CIRCLE EAST THEATER CO. (marathon performances of new playwrights ’96 & ‘97) THE BOYS NEXT DOOR (The Lambs / original company), MISANTHROPE (Theater East) AH! WILDERNESS (Roundabout & Circle In The Square), PHANTASY (Vineyard) SHAKESPEAREWRIGHTS (2 years/ Off-Broadway debut) Film & TV THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER (co-starred with Alan Arkin) THE CHEEVER STORIES (adapted by Terrence McNally/director James Ivory) FDR’S LAST YEAR (NBC ‘special’ starring Jason Robards) THE WRONG MAN (Alfred Hitchcock) EDGE OF NIGHT (1year as ‘Molly” in the Molly Sherwood Murders), HIDDEN FACES (contract). FOR RICHER FOR POORER (contract), GUIDING LIGHT (contract), AS THE WORLD TURNS Regional Theater Most Recently: THE DINING ROOM (Buffalo Studio Arena), HARVEY (Williamstown),  PYGMALION (Yale Rep), THE COCKTAIL HOUR (Arizona Theater Company) THE IMMIGRANT (Philadelphia Drama Guild) A DELICATE BALANCE (Missouri Repertory Company) Less Recently: Driving Miss Daisy, Democracy (Romulus Linney), One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest  Scenes From American Life (A.R.Gurney), Tartuffe (Moliere),  The Lady’s Not For Burning (Frye), The Hostage, A Phoenix Too Frequent, Separate Tables…and more….. Wellesley College, 2 years Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, 2 year course   3 years further (spoken) voice work in NYC with Mark Zeller using Shakespeare to teach sense of sentences! Ongoing: David Zema Voice of Success Programs working with commercials, V/O and narration. This includes practice with a wide array of commercial material, the use of a sound booth and microphone and revolving auditions/critique with various V/O casting professionals in New York. Access to a broadcast quality studio. My characterizations are drawn from the text offered. I have a flexible voice and a good ear.  (see Audiobook clips) I am a trained "Explainer" at the American Museum of Natural History in the Earth Sciences, therefore familiar with the vocabulary of: astrophysics, geology, mineralogy. gems and minerals.