Joan Hester | Voice over actor

About Joan

Member sinceNov 11, 2008

My natural age range is 35-55 and I have a warm, friendly, sincere voice. I am accomplished at relaxed, conversational, believable soft sell attitudes such as friendly, calm, soothing, sentimental, folksy, story telling, caring, trustworthy regular girl next door and down to earth. I can do romantic, sensual and sophisticated or luxurious, rich, expensive and snooty. I can also perform strong professional hard sell attitudes such as serious, newsy, authoritative, confident, energetic, enthusiastic and convincing. I am adept at the new edgy attitudes such as argumentative, flippant, sarcastic, wry, bored, monotonous monotone, deadpan, casual and smartass. I can also do dramatic reads such as movie trailers, tv promo, audiobook or natural regular girl on the street testimonial reads. I am an excellent, directable voice actor and can interpret the emotional subtleties in copy and words and connect emotionally with the listener audience. When you request an emotion in my voice for a certain line I can produce that emotion and subtle variations of it. Some examples might be angry, happy, sad, disapponted, satisfied, relieved, concerned, worried, confused, surprised and more complex emotions such as exasperated, jealous, envious, dejected, hopeful, amazed and astounded and of course nonplussed. I am experienced in reading a variety of corporate industrial copy from dramatic and romantic to straight forward and instruction and I can phrase bullets and outline points well with my voice to clearly lead the listener through the logic of a presentation. I am excellent at pronouncing and understanding medical, chemical, technical and electronic terms. I'm a great choice for radio and tv commercials, promos, trailers, corporate industrial narration, documentaries, telephone IVR and on hold, animation and character voices, impressions and impersonations, audiobooks and books on tape, training videos, internet and podcast presentations.

Skills and services offered

- Language
  English - USA and Canada
- Voice gender & age
  Female senior
  Female adult
  Female young adult
- Additional services offered
  Write the copy
  Deliver edited and finished voice over
  Add music
- Recording and delivery options
  Digital delivery
  On-site recording
  Location
  None
- Additional vocal abilities
  I perform a wide variety of character attitudes like big announcer parody, professor, psychiatrist, sinister, evil villain, super hero, hip, geek, nerd, goofy, jolly, naive, wild, zany, wacky, kooky, nutty, quirky, funny and humorous. I do a a variety of accents and dialects including British, Australian, U.S. Southern (Appalachian and Plantation Drawl), New York, Brooklyn, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. I do these accents with different pitches and resonances and vocal quirks to create a wide variety of believable, entertaining characters with interesting personalities.
- Experience, training, and equipment
  I recently completed a website narration for a software development company. I have completed Commercial Voice Over Classes at Aliso Creek Studios in Burbank. I have had private coaching in voice over. I am an experienced director, videographer and editor. I have a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University in New York. I have a Bachelor of Music Degree from Catholic University in Washington, D.C. MY STUDIO EQUIPMENT: MICS: MXL 2001 USB Blue Snowball SOFTWARE: Pro Tools LE 7.4

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