Mike Bratton - Warm, personable, approachable, and real.

Warm, personable, approachable, and real.

• Mike Bratton is registered with Voice123 since Jun 08, 2006.
• Mike Bratton started his/her voice over career in .
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Voice Description

I'm told that my personable voice cuts through the overcharged chatter found in most radio voice work.

As an actor, I'm able to make my voice project the emotion appropriate for the venue.

And as far as different voices are concerned, I do well over 120 different celebrity impressions and distinct dialects: from Reagan, Clinton, and Carter, to Popeye, Beavis, and Fat... um, that "Fat" gentleman from the Austin Powers movies.

If you need a voice, just ask--more than likely, I do it! I'll be posting my "master list" soon.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

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

• English - Australian / NZ
• English - British
• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

Unknown - Click here to ask Mike Bratton

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

Unknown - Click here to ask Mike Bratton

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

Memphis, West Tennessee, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask Mike Bratton

My Voice Experience

My experience began, oddly enough, by watching Johnny Carson on "The Tonight Show." As a boy, I wanted to learn how to be a better comedian, so I'd stay up past my bedtime to study Johnny as he delivered his nightly monologue. It was there that I discovered some of his guests--impressionists like Rich Little, Frank Gorshin, and Fred Travalena. As I studied them over time, I began to learn how to develop distinct dialects and impressions of my own.

For example: Did you know there's a difference between an Australian accent and a New Zealander accent? It's subtle, but it's there; I once surprised a server at an Outback Steakhouse (as well as my family) when I asked her how long she'd been in the States after she left New Zealand. She said that I was the first person in the U.S. who didn't think she had an Australian accent.

When you use my services, you get that kind of attention to detail.

My Training

Theater Scholarship, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, Tennessee

Host/producer/comedy/voiceover talent featured on:
WGKX, WVIM, and WOGY (Memphis, Tennessee)
WTNV and Total Reach Television (Jackson, Tennessee)
WOGI (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

My Studio Equipment

Unknown - Click here to ask Mike Bratton

Additional Skills

As a Christian, I have a guiding principle for any type of performance I do. It's found in Ephesians 4:29, and it reads like this: "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers."

In a nutshell, I make it a point not to do anything on the air that doesn't, in some way, lift up the person watching or listening. If that sounds odd to you, we probably won't work well together; however, if that's the way you work, we should talk.