Sarah Elmaleh - Fresh, Versatile, Expressive, Character specialist

Fresh, Versatile, Expressive, Character specialist

• Sarah Elmaleh is registered with Voice123 since Feb 23, 2009.
• Sarah Elmaleh started his/her voice over career in 2006.
• Currently Sarah Elmaleh is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

Fresh and empathetic for commercials, warm and authoritative for narration, sexy and engaging for promos, colorful and honest for character work.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Girl
• Young Adult 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
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for ACTRA (Canada) signatories

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for British Equity signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

• Jobs for Union des Artistes (Canada) signatories

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 can deliver edited and finished voice tracks

My Home Base

New York, New York, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Some of the accents, characterizations, and impersonations I can perform:

Accents: American Midwest (‘Fargo’), American South - 'belle', rural-twang, American Valley Girl, Brooklyn, British - classic RP (Queen's English), cockney, contemporary London, Irish (light Connemara), Scottish – prim (Maggie Smith), soft (Kelly McDonald), Australian - broader (Sydney), softer (Melbourne), French (Parisian), Japanese, Russian, German, Indian. (I am proficient in Japanese and French.)

Characterizations and impersonations: nerd - with a cold, with braces, slurred drunk, teen - sassy, teen - apathetic, Katharine Hepburn, Norma Desmond, Bjork

My Voice Experience

The following are examples of my work, by category:
Promos: ABC Family (America's Funniest Home Videos)
Commercials: Cafepress (national), Tanger Outlets, Axona for Alzheimer's
'Audiobook'-style (Broadcastr): Fodor's (San Francisco, Paris), Underwater NY
Videogames: 'Night of the Cursed', 'Gemini Rue', 'Blackwell Deception'
Company webvideos, voicemail: kikin, Inhabit Vacations
Animation: Typical Strange
Radio dramas: the Waterpipe Theatre, The End Never Comes

I am also an experienced, trained theatre and on-camera actor. My film, theatre, and Internet credits - along with additional voiceover samples - can be viewed at my website.

My Training

Commercial voiceover technique: Joan Baker, Johnna Gottlieb, Stacy Seidel.
Animation workshops with Sunday Muse.

Related training:

Improv Comedy: Armando Diaz, Peter McNerney, Mark Grenier, Louis Kornfeld. Improvised Shakespeare workshop with Blaine Swen.

British American Drama Academy's Midsummer in Oxford program - studied under Globe director Barry Kyle, Irina Brown, Leo Wringer, Ben Benison, Linda Gates, Bill Homewood, and Estelle Kohler. Attended seminars by Brian Cox, David Schwimmer and Saffron Burrows, Julian Glover, Deborah Warner, David Harewood, Benedict Nightingale, Diana Rigg, Henry Goodman, and legend Sir John Barton.

Multiple theater courses at Wesleyan University with Daniel Cantor, Yuriy Kordonskiy (Chekhov), and Gay Smith (Script Analysis).

My Studio Equipment

I have a home studio with soundproofing, a Neumann TLM 102, and an Apogee ONE interface.

Additional Skills

I have basic sound engineering skills and a good ear for audio quality - I can deliver clean vocal tracks.

I also have a special love for videogames, and serve as a proud member of the Game Audio Network Guild Voice Actor's Coalition.