Rick Reid - alternative, different, young, quirky, regular guy

alternative, different, young, quirky, regular guy

• Rick Reid is registered with Voice123 since Aug 11, 2005.
• Rick Reid started his/her voice over career in 1986.
• Currently Rick Reid is a Premium subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 13
• Rick Reid has been active on Voice123 during the past 48 hours

Voice Description

Rick Reid has a unique, mid-range voice with just a hint of "texture." Rick is equally effective as either an announcer or a character actor and he can play a wide range of ages. You just have to hear his demos to realize all he can do for you!

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
• Promos
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have ISDN in my studio
• I have Phone Patch in my studio
• I have Source Connect in my studio
• 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

Denver, Colorado, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Neutral U.S., Southern, New England, Midwest, Canadian Midwest, California Valley, Hawaiian Pidgin, various accurate or "fake" foreign accents including British, German, Russian, Latin, French, etc.

My Voice Experience

Rick Reid has worked on both sides of the microphone for more than 23 years.

As an award-winning local and network television producer he has directed some of the top voice talent in the USA.

As a voice talent, himself, Rick has been heard on hundreds of local, regional and national radio and TV promos and commercials and on corporate productions and websites. Credits include voiceovers for Dish Network, DirecTV, J2 Global Communications, Meijer, Medikidz, Molson Coors, Rainbow Rewards, Shane Co., Western Union and others.

Rick is a former radio personality and radio news anchor for Album Rock and Rock Oldies formats. He has also worked as a publicist and ad copywriter for a Nevada hotel-casino where he wrote and provided voiceovers for several radio and TV commercials.

My Training

M.S., Communication Management, Colorado State University.

B.S., Broadcasting with a minor in Advertising, Southern Utah University.

Various voiceover seminars and workshops.

Undergraduate theater courses.

Radio production internship.

My Studio Equipment

iMac G5 desktop computer and Sony Vaio notebook computer

Pro Tools LE and several other audio applications

Source-Connect (with ISDN bridging capability)

Neumann, M-Audio, Rode, AKG, Samson and Oktava microphones

Various studio acoustic treatments

Alesis, Korg, Moog, Roland & Yamaha electronic musical insttruments

Huge royalty-free music and sound effects library with more than 50,000 tracks

Additional Skills

Rick Reid has more than 21-years experience as a TV Writer/Producer specializing in on-air promotions. He has worked for broadcast TV stations in Salt Lake City and Las Vegas and for the Starz, Encore, MoviePlex and TNN national television networks. He has written and produced about four thousand TV promos, commercialsm PSAs and short-form documentary interstitials as well as the 2007 documentary TV special, "Gene Autry: White Hat, Silver Screen." He has conducted dozens of interviews with celebrities from movies, TV, politics, sports, publishing, music, etc.

Currently, Rick co-produces the weekly "Starz Studios" movie news series for the Starz TV networks. Rick has also voiced more than a hundred promos, movie trailers, corporate videos and commercials as staff announcer for Starz Entertainment.

Rick has taught audio and video production courses and workshops for the Denver Center Theatre Academy, Colorado State University and American Technical Center. He is also the organizer of the Denver Voice Acting Meetup Group.

Rick is active in Denver-area community theater as both a stage actor and a theatrical sound designer. He also volunteers as a publicist and media producer for a small, non-profit organization in his local community.

Rick's hobbies include travel, snorkeling, attending rock concerts and Broadway plays and watching his favorite TV show, "House, M.D."