Quentin Hancock - characters; sensitive and authoritative

characters; sensitive and authoritative

• Quentin Hancock is registered with Voice123 since Apr 07, 2008.
• Quentin Hancock started his/her voice over career in 2004.
• Currently Quentin Hancock is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 1

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Voice Description

commercials: regular guy with attitude, deadpan, crazed and confused, young and enthusiastic, over-the-top announcer

PSA's and narration: warm, sensitive, and authoritative

characters: I play thousand-year-old men, streetwise rats, eager genies, conniving South American jaguars, and many more

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Boy
• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

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

• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Podcasts
• Others (on-camera, informercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

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

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services

My Home Base

Santa Cruz, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Russian, American Southern, East Indian, faux Italian, Jersey gangster, flaming or sophisticated queen, laconic Westerner, British characters, including snooty butlers, Boris Karloff

My Voice Experience

2007: Co-wrote and voiced a PSA for California Lawyers for the Arts which advocated for increased funding for the California Arts Council. This PSA was distributed statewide on San Francisco and Los Angeles radio stations, as well as numerous local public television stations. This PSA also won a CINE Golden Eagle Award.

2008: Host/Announcer, KUSP Public Radio, Santa Cruz, California -- promote programs and program sponsors, read PSA's, operate station sound board

My Training

EDUCATION

2003--Ph.D., English, University of California, Davis

1995--M.A., Education, and single subject teaching credential in English/Language Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz

1990-- B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley

TRAINING

Intermediate/Professional Voiceover Workshop – Rick Zieff, Voicebox Studios, Los Angeles, Fall 2004

Courses through Dolores Diehl, The Voiceover Connection, Los Angeles:

Voice Acting-- Frank Coppola, Voicetrax; Anna Mathias, Fall 2004

Narration -- Stefan Rudnicki, Skyboat Road Company, Fall 2004

Animation -- Dolores Diehl, Winter 2005
Commercials-- Roger Scott, Spring 2005
Extended Commercials--various Los Angeles area agents, Fall 2005

Courses through Voicetrax, Sausalito, Summer and Fall 2007:

Introductory Seminar and The Next Step -- Al Bedrosian
Creating Characters -- Samantha Paris and Cynthia Songé
Animation 101: Bob Bergen

2006-present:
Ongoing theater improvisation courses
Clifford Henderson and Dixie Cox, The Fun Institute, Santa Cruz

My Studio Equipment

MBox 2

Pro Tools LE software

Glyph GT 050 external hard drive

Rode NTK microphone

Additional Skills

some facility with editing projects on Pro Tools software

good Spanish-speaking skills, with excellent pronunciation

10+ years experience as California educator at secondary and post-secondary levels

excellent writing and copywriting skills

grantmaker and former board member of a family foundation