Michael MacMahon

Voice Description

A warm, honey-soaked British male voice. Refined and stylish.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

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

• English - British

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

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

• I offer copywriting services
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer voice direction services
• I offer radio ad production services
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Bristol, United Kingdom

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Oxford English (i.e. Received Pronunciation) is my natural accent.

I can also perform in the following accents: Welsh (south), Irish (both southern and northern), London / Thames Estuary, North-east England ("Geordie").

Have maintained a Welsh accent throughout a 10-minute short film ("Old Age Pillagers"); and a southern Irish accent throughout a Hugh Leonard stage play. ("Pizzazz")

I also use Scottish successfully for the famous "To a Haggis" on Burns' Night, which has now become something of a party piece for me. But that's a period accent, of course; I would hesitate to deliver a contemporary Scottish accent, except for a short piece.

My Voice Experience

I started doing professional VO work about ten years ago. My voice credits in the last few years have included dubbing for a BBC4 documentary on World War II; many audio transcriptions for the visually impaired; narrating bible stories for middle-school students; and voicing animations for both Bath University and Laureate International Universities of the USA.

However, before that my voice was an essential part of my job in a variety of different ways for over 25 years, during a career in the chemical industry. During the last ten of those years I was Managing Director of a sales company in an international group and in that post I was a regular platform speaker.


VOICE CREDITS

Audio versions of news stories from Reuters, Conde Nast Traveler and goal.com, for the Kaliki mobile app: BT Software & Research Inc, USA

Voiceover on new company showreel (www.SouthpointFilms.com) for Southpoint Films, Southampton, UK.

"Spatula Man" in Danepak TV commercial "Morning" for ITV. Academy Films (UK) / Station Film (US). Screened Feb / March 2012.

Narrator, St Matthew's Gospel (“The Books of the Bible for Kids: New Testament Audio”), for Gap Digital, Wheaton, IL, USA.

"Senior Police Officer" in "Police Investigation": educational animation for Laureate Education Inc, Baltimore & Los Angeles, USA

"Chief Superintendent" and Narrator in "Bank Robbery", educational animation for Laureate Education Inc, Baltimore & Los Angeles, USA

"Roger Marbury" (lawyer) in "MAPPA Panel": educational animation for Laureate Education Inc, Baltimore & Los Angeles, USA

"Dad" in TV commercial "Crocbids vs. Retirement": Lightworx Media, Bristol, UK.

"Theodor Plote" (German soldier) in “Shooting the War”: Available Light Productions, Bristol, UK, for BBC4

Voiceover on animation for website: Omni Productions, Bristol, UK, for the University of Bath, UK.

"The Judge" in “The Trial of Simon M”: soundpiece for graduate project, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.

Narrator in regular audio transcriptions for the visually impaired. A2i Transcription Services, Bristol, UK.

Narrator in “Rascal, the Cat with Nine Lives” (Early Years CD-ROM), for Childhood Learning Ltd, Epsom, UK.

Voiceover on corporate DVD for Towerlight Ltd. At Albany Studios, Cardiff, UK, via Business Language Services Ltd, Abergavenny.

Talking head on information video: The Stroke Association, Bristol and Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, UK.

Talking head on information video: The Stroke Association, (Severn Region), Bristol, UK.

My Training

I'm a graduate of Gary Terzza's "VO Masterclass" programme, which I attended in London (UK) in June 2011.

I have been performing as an actor (stage & screen) and singer (variety of genres) for 30 years.

I attended the workshop "Radio & Microphone Acting" delivered by Bernie Hodges (South West Acting Courses) at Attic Attack Studio, Bristol, UK, in Nov 2010.

My Studio Equipment

Broadcast quality condenser microphone with 16-bit, 48Khz Sampling Rate, Super Cardiod Pickup Pattern, Computer Based Digital Audio Workstation, Pro-studio acoustic screening.

Professional monitoring headphones.

Additional Skills

I am an experienced copywriter and editor; skills that were developed through a long career on the marketing side of the chemicals industry.

As also mentioned above, I am an experienced platform speaker and have done this for many years.

I have been trained in audio editing, through doing regular audio transcriptions for the visually impaired and editing my own tracks.

I am also a singer and have performed regularly for years in a variety of genres.

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Credit cards
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency

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