Renae Maynard - Smooth, versatile, feminine, multi-facted, range

Smooth, versatile, feminine, multi-facted, range

• Renae Maynard is registered with Voice123 since Jul 29, 2008.
• Renae Maynard started his/her voice over career in 2008.
• Currently Renae Maynard is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

I have a mid-range, smooth-toned voice that can go from low to high tones, young to old, sexy to gruff as needed. I have a background in acting, music/vocal performance, and audiobook absorption, and can do anything from cackle like a witch, meow like a tiny kitten, purr like the most voluptuous vixen to speaking like very a small child.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

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

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
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Adult content
• Songs
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, 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 have a music library and can add music to any project

My Home Base

New Carrollton, Maryland, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

I have a knack for picking up new & different intonations, speech patterns & accents relatively easily. I specialize in a variety of accents/dialects, & can speak a good deal of Spanish, some French, a little German, plus a smattering of other languages such as Italian, Russian, Japanese and Irish Gaelic. I enjoy accents from all around the US and CAnada to all around the world, and can offer everything from a Southern Belle's lilt to a gentle Scottish brogue. I can affect Irish, high English to Cockney British accents (even to the extent of getting mistaken as cast quite often at Renaissance faires), & enjoy accents all the way from Indian, German, & down-home country speech patterns right back to California valley girl or the gruffness of a seasoned New Yorker.

My Voice Experience

I'm new at professional voiceovers, but I've ecelled at storytelling and on-stage theatre, as well as vocal performance for as long as I can remember. As a person w/a mild visual impairment, I've a life-long love affair with audiobooks, and have thus developed a keen sense of what makes good and bad audiobook narration, as well as a firm love of the new thriving explosion of audio drama.

As a singer, writer and actor, I've loved making recordings of my own since I was a child- using nothing more than a tape and the nearest tape recorder as outlests for my imagination and creativity. Sometimes I made stories up as I went along, other times I told stories I already knew, and still others I would plot out a story either in print or in my head so I could act it out on a recording. I've always loved acting out my own audio plays- (sometimes with or without a tape recorder), doing voices for characters that ranged from an old Irish woman to a villainous Southern man, to a small, frightened child. I also practiced for upcoming plays in this manner- recording the lines for a character as the role so I could hear myself as that person, how I reacted, what lines needed more or less empasis, etc.

My Training

In college I took a brief acting course which centered around "Blithe Spirit," and have been involved in both vocal and theatrical performance throughout college, high school & elementary school. Through all 4 years of college I was a member of our University Chorus, twice being a part of a select womens' singing group called "Camerata." In high school I spent all 4 years in Chorale, (the in-between stage beyond general chorus but not quite at the highest level of Madrigal Singers), and also was in various theatrical productions. Middle school saw me take a lead in "Oliver" as Fagan while I still participated in chorale, and primary school was no different- where I sang and acted wherever I could. Since college I have sung at various venues, and throughout my life I've participated in church choirs wherever possible. During and shortly after college I also became part of a life-action role-playing troupe, and now I've been putting together my own podshow entitled "Eclectica," centered around diverse types of music, poetry and storytelling performance.

My Studio Equipment

I'm in the process of buying a new computer, but I have a variety of microphones and will be acquiring Audacity, for starters- in addition to a great sound card.

Additional Skills

I'm mildly visually impaired, but have no trouble seeing traditional print, computer screens, etc. In fact I consider my visual impairment something of an asset in the audio-performance community, as I've life-long experience being a consumer of such things as audiobooks, radio drama, various descriptive services, etc. I pay attention to voices- from those on recordings on the phone to those I hear on a daily basis or while I travel. I -love- language- the structure, origin.. cultural aspects and rammifications- everything, and enjoy both listening to and learning about, but reflecting different languages and accents. I think my visual impairment has given me a better (if not simply more attentive) ear, and that's proved invaluable to me over the years as both an individual and a performer. Moreover, as an actor I love the potential of exploring different characters, moods, ideas, cultures and themes through a medium which has meant so much to me over the years, and which I believe can mean so much to so many others- for a plethora of differing reasons.