Paul Lewis - Urgent yet soothing, expert communicator to W25-54

Urgent yet soothing, expert communicator to W25-54

• Paul Lewis is registered with Voice123 since Feb 17, 2010.
• Paul Lewis started his/her voice over career in 1987.
• Currently Paul Lewis is a Standard subscriber.
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Voice Description

"Urgent yet soothing" is the description of a local ad agency, I have over twenty years experience informing and motivating 25-54 year old women via radio, cable and industrials. I write and voice to push the hot buttons of that all-important "power demo" woman, but in a safe, non-threatening way. I sound my age (late 40s) so I am more of an "equal" or friendly peer communicator, not so much brassy or "announcer-ish".

Sensitive, smiling, yet sincere voice of authority with excellent pronunciation and inflection instincts for spots as well as long form audio, such as safety and training videos - a more sensitive, less bossy carrier of the important information.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male

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

• English - North American

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
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

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

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

I've been a backwoods roughneck for a BBQ chain, a leprechaun for a St. Patty's Day "Pot O' Gold" Giveaway Contest, and my wasted youth with cartoons and Monty Python on telly has facilitated my cockney and aristocratic British accents. Aussie, Chinese-American, mobster, New York mook, left coast surfer and right coast preppie are others that come to mind.
I'm the product of a Brooklyn Jewish dad and an Irish Catholic mom (nuff said). My daughter asks me why I don't voice cartoons instead of boring ol' radio commercials.

My Voice Experience

Copywriting, production and voice talent as Production Director and afternoon drive AT for WJBR-FM, the #1 ranked (Arbitron, Fall 2009) AC radio station in market #76 (Wilmington, DE), we are overlaid by market #6 (Philadelphia, PA) - so we have to sound good as them!

I've voiced every kind of safety, training and product rollout video. I've voiced children's books as the narrator and as various characters. Voiced yoga videos, local cable TV ads and promos, and thousands of radio spots of every description from "sexy smoothie" to "crazed shouter". College and community acting experience actually brings new life to those cliche-ridden copy (not yours, of course) that begin with "Honey, I'm home!" I can do the "expected" take, and I can find the new spin.

Whether I write for my own voice or for directing others, I am adept at communicating well within 30- and 60-second time constraints, but love settling in, slowing down and breathing life into real organic Storytelling. When you give me time, you can hear it in my voice: "What a treat, the luxury of the long form."

My Training

Methacton High School, Fairview Village, PA: Director of morning TV news broadcast.

Messiah College, Grantham, PA:
Bachelor of Arts, Radio-TV-Film, with campus radio and live performance theatre experience. Performed title role in a production of Eugène Ionesco's Shakespeare satire, "Macbett".

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA: completed RTF degree requirements with concentrations in Animation and Film Criticism, externship at an animation studio.

Radio Production Training: Tom Richards at B101.1 in Philly, John Linton at WZZD-AM in Philly, and Bill Kaye at WJBR-FM in Wilmington.

My Studio Equipment

MXL V67i through a Cakewalk USB AudioCapture into Adobe Audition running on WinXP.

Additional Skills

Radio Production Training: Tom Richards at B101.1 in Philly, John Linton at WZZD-AM in Philly, and Bill Kaye at WJBR-FM in Wilmington.

Director of Morning TV News Program:
Methacton High School, Fairview Village, PA

Campus Radio and Live Theatre Performances:
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Bachelor of Arts, Radio-TV-Film. Performed title role in a production of Eugène Ionesco's Shakespeare satire, "Macbett".

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA: completed RTF degree requirements with concentrations in Animation and Film Criticism, externship at an animation studio.