Shaun Landry

Voice Description

Smooth and fun with a professional African American Flair, Shaun can not only provide professional sounding voice overs for commercials and presentations, but her years of comedy and improvisational skills brings a light and fun flair to character voice overs and impersonations.

Her voice is excellent for film, television and podcast based projects.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Girl
• Young Adult Female
• Middle Age Female

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

• English - North American
• English - South African

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
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• AFTRA (US)

• SAG (US)

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 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 can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Los Angeles, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

American Southern, South African, Queens English, Cockney and German Accents

Hip Hop Inflection, Valley Girl, Snobby Upper Crust, Meek Office Worker, Sexy Cougar, Front Porch Older woman, Sassy African American, 30's Fast talking female reporter (Aka My Girl Friday), 5-14 year old naive Characters

Mae West, Queen Latifa, Ethel Merman, Moms Mabley Impersonations

My Voice Experience

Shaun voice over work has included playing the voice of Sarah in the popular radio soap Opera It's Your World through Baby Sitters Productions. Her voice has also been heard on The Tom Joyner shows for sketches.

With numerous loop group sessions in San Francisco, to redubs for other voices for films Shaun has been providing creative voice overs since 1998.

My Training

A Native of Chicago Illinois living in Los Angeles, Shaun Landry is the Artistic Director of Oui Be Negroes, founded The West Coast Improv Alliance and produced the The San Francisco Improv Festival. She is also half of the Duo of The Irish Mutts and Landry & Summers

With a B.A. in Theater and Journalism from Columbia College Chicago, Shaun has worked for The Second City Chicago Tour Company & Children's Theater, Geese Theater Company, African American Shakespeare Company and has been in the improvisational festival circuit teaching and performing at The Kansas City Improv Festival, Big Stinkin Improv Festival Austin, The Funny Women's Festival, The Miami Improv Festival, Oberlin Improv Conference, The Chicago Improv Festival, The Amsterdam Improv Festival BATS Improv Comedy Festival and has taught at universities including Stanford and Northwestern.

She can be read in the book "Whose Improv is it Anyway: Beyond the Second City". Her writings can be found on the literary site The Redroom with Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and President Barack Obama.

She can be heard as the voice of Sarah on the popular radio Soap Opera It's Your World.

As a member of the Screen Actors Guild, she can be seen in the movies Read You Like a Book with Danny Glover and Karen Black as Marcia and The Oscar Award winning movie Milk with Sean Penn as Gwenn Craig.

My Studio Equipment

Shaun is equipped with her own home studio that includes editing software (Adobe Audition with a great assist from Avid). She can FTP and server from her home offices

For high quality productions with iso booths, she uses Machine Head in Santa Monica (www.machinehead.com)

For ISDN and Phone Line directed long distance services (including professional links to finished material) Shaun uses Dave and Dave Inc. Recording studio in North Hollywood (www.everythingvo.com)

Shaun's real life neurosis will ensure that you will get high quality finished product...

...On time.

Additional Skills

Shaun casts numerous other improvisational actors for Loop Group Sessions via Landry and Summers Productions.

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency
• Wire transfers

Contact Information

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