Shadi Alfons - Character specialist, guy next door, offbeat.

Character specialist, guy next door, offbeat.

• Shadi Alfons is registered with Voice123 since Jul 29, 2009.
• Shadi Alfons started his/her voice over career in 2003.
• Currently Shadi Alfons is a Standard subscriber.
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Voice Description

Can be fun and upbeat for commercials, warm and deep for

narrations and/or educational recordings, musical (tenor)

for songs, voice trained for dramas and comedies.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Boy
• Young Adult Female
• Young Adult Male

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

• Arabic
• English - British
• 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

• 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

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services
• I offer translation services
• I offer voice direction services
• I offer radio ad production services
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Native languages: English(North American) and Arabic.

Accents in English: British (Cockney, Posh, Scottish, Irish), Australian, Latin American, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, African(most dialects & South African accent), Arabic, Indian, Filipino(Tagalog).

I have an exceptional talent for learning unfamiliar accents very quickly.

My Voice Experience

I'm a V.O artist (talent) from Cairo, Egypt. I just moved to Victoria B.C. I've been in the V.O business for over 7 years.

Since early 2003, in Cairo, I was regularly employed to do V.O's (in English and Arabic) for numerous, giant, multinational clients like Pepsi, Vodafone, Kia Motors, Nestle, Jotun Paints, Nokia, Emirates Airlines, amongst others.

My work for those clients came in the forms of radio commercials (Talent) tailored for the top radio station in North Africa and the Middle East, Nile FM with an audience base of 80 million+, television/satellite commercials (V.O, jingle singer and/or actor), Corporate Videos and award winning Documentaries/short films (Narrator and/or actor).

2003 – Present AD. Agency – J. Walter Thompson
Copywriter & V.O Artist (Talent)

Radio Spot Clients: VODAFONE, NESTLE, CLORETS, EMIRATES
AIRLINES, NOKIA, JOTUN, KIA MOTORS.

Corporate Video & TV: JOTUN, NESTLE, VODAFONE.

AD. Agency – Impact BBDO
Voice Over Artist (Talent)

Radio Spot Clients: SEVEN-UP and PEPSI.

Media / Film Production Company – Zad Communication & Production
Actor – Lead Role (Kareem) in 15min. Drama "Iaraf Nafsak"
2007.

Production Company – UNICEF
Host/Narrator of an awareness documentary produced in 2005.

My Training

2002 – 2006 The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt
Bachelor of Arts – “3.7” GPA.

Major : Business Administration
Theatre (Honors, Performing and Visual Arts)

Relevant Courses
workshops and
projects: Voice and movement, Advanced Acting,
Advertising, Mass Communication, 2 Films,
over 20 theater performances.