Martitia Powell-Palmer

Voice Description

Martitia has beautiful clear tones with a thoughtful, warm delivery for a wide range of narrations from the Monterrey Bay Acquarium to Cox Communications etc. - Business woman direct in American English - also Mid-Atlantic and British.

(see experience) Also trainings & presentations - ie NOrthrup Grumman in American & British English, AT&T etc, and phone menus - most recent for SCREEN ACTORS GUILD.

She has created voices for animals and vegetables in radio spots and commercials. On the character animation side of her CD there are voices and accents from the TV series THE EXILE and numerous other characters, including a whimsical little girl, a British dowager, a feisty Midwestern aunt, a Southern belle etc, as well as French and Italian characters and English with Italian, French, Slavic, British, Southern, mid-Western accents in English. CHILDREN OF DUNE character voices in several languages, including science fiction “Gibberish”, accents, Latin chanting and multiple accents in THE SIN EATERS, southern and British in JUST MARRIED for 20th Century Fox.. Re-voicing and specialty accents in HANNIBAL, created the Docent and other characters in Rob Reiner’s film THE STORY OF US. She gave voice to SNOW WHITE and dwarf DOPEY, in a European animated version, the ‘Witch’ in Mel Brooks American version of THE VISITOR, Julie Andrews voice in DUET FOR ONE, a computer voice in SOLAR CRISIS, the Countess in SWANN IN LOVE, various children and accents in ANALYSE THIS, characters in THE WIZARD and North Carolina dialogue in RUN THE WILD FIELDS, CNN Presents Pope John Paul II - voice of Mother Tekla, DE-LOVELY (Cole Porter- 1920’s Paris) multiple scenes, French & Italian.

Extensive ADR (Automatic Dialogue Replacement) Voice matching (ie Kitty Carlyle Hart, Julie Andrews etc), accents and fluent Italian & French on feature films & television - ie PINK PANTHER II - THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, MAD MEN, AMC-TV Italian Mamma accent- GODFATHER III etc.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Girl
• Young Adult Female
• Middle Age Female
• Senior Female

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

• English - British
• English - North American
• French - Canadian
• French - European
• Italian

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 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

• AFTRA (US)

• SAG (US)

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 deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services
• I offer translation services
• I offer voice direction services

My Home Base

LOS ANGELES, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

American - clear & accentless, friendly, Warm low tones, British, also Mid-Atlantic, Southern, Midwestern & nasal charactery, 'locust valley lockjaw' upscale East Coast, Animated computer voices, Fara (exotic) in Diablo II.

Native fluent Italian and French, Italian & French, Slavic accented English. 'Italian Mamma' - Contessa snob e altera, French 'tres chic et tiree a quattre epingles',
also working class humorous in all three languages. Irish lilt.

My Voice Experience

Narration includes stories, news, travel and corporate presentations:NORTHRUP GRUMMAN, HUGHES, JPL, CAL TECH SCIENCE, medical etc. ANDERSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AWARDS, AT&T, J.PAUL GETTY, BEHR PAINT, IBM, HERTZ, MOBIL OIL, ABBA, BOEING, HUGHES, MEDIC NET, N.J. BELL, J.C.PENNY, JOHN PAUL MITCHEL, J. P. L. SERIES. CRYSTAL CRUISES, NESTLE, ANDERSON BUSINESS AWARDS, Series of radio spots for COX COMMUNICATIONS etc.
Narrations also in French and Italian i.e. ROTATIONAL MOLDING, BEHR PAINT, OPI nails etc.
RADIO SPOTS FOR ABC, NBC, CNN Presents John Paul II - voice of Mother Tekla.
Also telephone and corporate messages.

Voice-over and ADR(automatic dialogue replacement)
work: PINK PANTHER II, DE-LOVELY (Cole Porter- 1920’s Paris) multiple scenes, French & Italian. Voice matching in Spielberg’s CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (K. Carlyle Hart), CHILDREN OF DUNE character voices in several languages, including science fiction “Gibberish”, accents, Latin chanting and multiple accents in THE SIN EATERS, southern and British in JUST MARRIED for 20th Century Fox.. Re-voicing and specialty accents in HANNIBAL, created the Docent and other characters in Rob Reiner’s film THE STORY OF US. She gave voice to SNOW WHITE and dwarf DOPEY, in a European animated version, the ‘Witch’ in Mel Brooks American version of THE VISITOR, Julie Andrews voice in DUET FOR ONE, a computer voice in SOLAR CRISIS, the Countess in SWANN IN LOVE, various children and accents in ANALYSE THIS, characters in THE WIZARD, FORGET PARIS and North Carolina dialogue in RUN THE WILD FIELDS.

My Training

THE CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH & DRAMA - LONDON
ALESSANDRO FERSEN STUDIO - ROME ITALY
WARREN ROBERTSON & LARRY MOSS ALICE SPIVAK - NYC
JERED BARCLAY - LOS ANGELES
Presently COLD READING WORKSHOPS for major casting directors.
SIMULTANEOUS CONFERENCE INTERPRETER / TRANSLATOR
FRENCH & ITALIAN - scripts, screenplays, books.
see resume for extensive VOICE-OVER NARRATION and feature film & TV ADR.

My Studio Equipment

MY OWN 'AUDIO STUDIO' - JUST RECORDED A SERIES OF PHONE MENUS FOR SCREEN ACTORS GUILD.

SONY SOUND FORGE 8 recording program.
SONY CD ARCHITECT 5
SONY NOISE REDUCTION 2.0

ROKIT KRK SPEAKERS 5.25" 2 way powered

TASCAM FRONTIER US-122 AUDIO MIDI-INTERFACE USB

SHURE KSM32 STUDIO MIC - PF-1 POP FILTER
groovetubes.com mic holder
SE RELECTION FILTER (for mic)- www.seelectronics.com

BELKIN 5 USB PORT - essential for enough 'juice'.

2 stands - mic is on A padded desk with mic inside the 'mic cozy' reflection filter facing extra sound proofing.

Additional Skills

Extensive Acting experience; theatre, film & TV interviewer.
Corporate coaching for presentations and speeches.
DIALOGUE COACH: Martitia for years has coached actors, interviewers and presenters for feature films, television, commercials and corporate presentations in English, both for clarity and tone range as well as a variety of accents: U.S. Southern, British, German, Slavic, Irish, Mid-Atlantic as well as Italian and French dialogue for American actors and accent reduction for foreign voice over actors.
Work on timbre, pitch and breathing in a natural way allowing a presenter/ interviewer/ actor/ to incorporate clarity and ‘tone’ into normal speech; simple tools for greater ease in communication while respecting the performer’s talent.

Martitia, the first woman announcer at K.A.B.C., has coached actors in Italy, New York and Los Angeles in three languages for a variety of accents using imagery to encourage the actor to find the character, as well as business executives for corporate presentations. Coaching: accent reduction (i.e. British to American, Southern), & addition – (ie American to British, French etc) variety in presentation for speeches, work on timbre, pitch and breathing in a natural way allowing a presenter/ interviewer/ actor/ to incorporate clarity and ‘tone’ into normal speech; simple tools for greater ease in communication while respecting the performer’s talent.
Coaching includes - Marlon Brando for Pepsi (Pytka), as well as commercials for the Dreyfuss Fund (Herb Ritts), LUX hair (Japan) with Catherine Zeta Jones and MTV “Undressed”, Jennifer Garner, star of ‘ALIAS’, Alice Rietveld for an international eye commercial series. She has worked with Miramax and the star of AMÉLIE, DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, and A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT Audrey Tautou, coaching and interpreting for her on all Press Conferences and the Première and with Warner Brothers for the director of MARCH OF THE PENGUINS.

Some of my screenplay translations and adaptations: for TITANUS FILMS – 2 miniseries: MICHAEL STROGOFF and THE VOLCANO LOVER. THE AMERICAN GUEST for Collepardi Films, A SLIP IN TIME For Terence & Jess Hill - THE MANZONI SISTERS - SHOOTING STARS - THE UNKINDEST CUT - S.O.S. A CHRONOLOGY OF COMPASSION.

Acting roles include a Novitiate in “The Nun’s Story”, the Bride in Maestro Fellini’s “Giulietta of the Spirits”, “Galileo” with Kurt Jurgens as his daughter, a nun. A wild Gertrude in Boston’s North Shore Theatre’s production of “Hamlet”. The tragic heroine in the world premiere of “Tosca 43” in N.Y.C. followed by “Portrait of a Woman” in Los Angeles as Guibot/Azanneau, the comic lead of Anna in “Spaghetti and Apple Pie” at the Court Theatre and the ensemble “The Powder Room” with Sally Kirkland & Lana Clarkson. The lead in the feature comedy short “Eye of the Beholder”, the school nurse in “Splitsville”, eccentric mother in the indie feature “My Next Funeral” director: Frederick Friedel.

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