Iris Carter

Sophisticated southern accent, redneck or trashy southern dialect, valley girl dialect, German accent, Italian accent. Using an ordinary song, I can change the style to opera, country, ballad, rock in a comedy style. Impersonations include Glenda the Good Witch, the Wicked Witch, Goliath of Davy and Goliath cartoons, Eyore, Tigger, Yogi Bear, Scarlet O'Hara, Prissy. I can purr like a cat, bark and growl like various dogs, and imitate an air horn.

As a teenager, I worked part-time in a radio station answering phones where I began to gain a following. I did some voice over work for one of the announcers when he was producing a play and needed a track of chanting voices. I also read books on tape for remedial students to read along. Through the years I have been continually complimented on my telephone voice and my ability to entertain with accents and dialects. More recently, I worked part-time for WMYN in Mayodan, NC as an announcer and recorded some commercials and PSAs. Guilford College, Greensboro, NC - BA in English with a communications concentration University of Phoenix - MS in Education, Curriculum and Instruction Classes included public speaking and journalism. Accomplished piano player, knowledgeable of music. Worked for Media General Newspapers, experienced in public speaking at workshops, classrooms, and large gatherings. Access to equipment including a Zoom H-4 recorder, NCH Software, WavePad Sound Editor. As a writer and editor, I have a strong knowledge of grammar and syntax. When reading aloud as a youth in school classrooms throughout my adulthood to children and other audiences, I have had strong voice inflection and dramatization skills.