Sheldon Greaves - Commercial, narrations, characters & dialects

Commercial, narrations, characters & dialects

• Sheldon Greaves is registered with Voice123 since May 15, 2010.
• Sheldon Greaves started his/her voice over career in 1977.
• Currently Sheldon Greaves is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

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Voice Description

Rich, warm, distinctive baritone for narrations, instruction and training, promos, etc. Can do a lively, energetic voice with fun characterizations for commercials.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• 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
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• 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)

• Non-Union Jobs

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 can deliver edited and finished voice tracks

My Home Base

San Jose, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Cultivated British ("Yes, Minister"), Working-class British (Your local chimney sweep), French (artist/intellectual), German (academic), Russian ("Making trouble for Moose and Squirrel").

My Voice Experience

I have done voice work off and on since 1975 when I was a radio stringer for two local stations, KSLM and KGAY in Salem, Oregon. In 1977 I took my first post-high school job as a disk jockey at KSLM,ad worked other DJ jobs for a few years thereafter.

I the late 80's I did voice work for some educational software programs, most of them by Magic Quest (defunct) of Palo Alto, CA.

More recently I have recorded audio books for librivox, including works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and sections of the Koran. I recorded the phone system messages for The Workhreat Group of Newport Beach, CA, and for Henley-Putnam University in San Jose, CA.

I was also the online host for a series of audio teleconference briefings sponsored by Henley-Putnam dealing with current issues in national security, and I recently recorded the voiceover portion of a television commercial scheduled to begin running in the Washington, DC market.

Most recently I have recorded a series of short promotional tags for New Spectrum Radio (New Spectrum Foundation).

My Training

Informal training and mentoring by Terrence Fuller, KSLM, 1975-77 when I worked as a news stringer and, in 1977, a DJ/news reader.

Acting major, Ricks College, Rexburg, ID, 1977-78. Received formal voice training. Also worked at the college radio station, KRIC, where I had my own classical music program.

Coursework in film making, Brigham Young University, 1980.

Formal voice training at Western Oregon State College under instructor Ewan Mitton, 1982.

Training in voiceover with Creative Voice Development Group, Schenectady, NY, 2005.