I've been recording voice overs for twelve years. I have a loveable "j", which has gotten me hired for BJ's Wholesale Club, Janelle Ford, General GMC, and Jenzabar amoung others. I can "normalize" it but most producers don't want me to. Here's a selected resume:
Narrations include:“Dr. Sax and The Great World Snake” (Madhouse Productions);
“Poems by Tennyson” (Penobscot Publishing); “The Walrus and the Carpenter” (Penobscot Publishing)
Station Ids include: WBOQ, WNSH, WEZE
Industrials include: Hitachi, Presidio Investments, Rialto, Inc., Eyak, Inc., Haemontetics, Armenian Tree Project, Grace Christian Mission, SEA, Sonexis, Inc.
Commercials include: J P Morgan Chase, Huntington Theater Co, Middlesex Savings Bank, Janell Ford, Zimmons, General GMC (multiple spots), Gardner Mattress, Waters & Brown, Essex County Coop, Ipswich Oriental Rugs, Bernard’s Jewelers, North Shore Youth Symphony Orchestra, Coro Stella Maris, Le Corps d’Elegance, Cassis Cafe, Hammond Castle Museum, The New England Textile Museum, DietCandle.com, Simmers Floor Covering, Sunbank, Tri-County Bank, Wolf Hill Garden Center, Northlight Photography and Video, Sticks and Stones, Casa de Moda, Wenham Tea House and Museum, Puritan Lawn Memorial Park, Braintree Electric, Hobbs House, Turtle Alley Chocolates, Bright Horizons, Newburyport Chamber of Commerce, Peabody Essex Museum, B J’s Wholesale Club
I have an M.A. in Theater Education from Emerson College.
Additional study related to voice work:
-Italian at the Boston Language Institute
-Grotowski Master Class (with Jola Cynkutis and Khalid Tyabji)
-Characterization (with Jeannie Lindheim)
-Acting for Film (with Michel Fennimore)
-Shakespeare and Company Intensive (with Dave Demke)
-Shakespearean Soliloquy (with Antonio Ocampo Guzman, Southwick Studio)
-Freeing the Natural Voice: Linklater Technique (with Antonio Ocampo Guzman, Southwick Studio)
-Commercial technique (with Nancy Doyle, Tighe and Doyle Casting)
-Commercial technique (with M. Lynda Robinson, private lessons)
-Voice Over Technique (with Beth Miller, Wren Ross, Jon Golden)
-Improvisation for Theatre (with Will Luera, Artistic Director, Improv Asylum)
I teach in the theatre department of a small college (including the occasional independent studiy in voice-over production). Thus my schedule is more flexible than alot of folks'.
Areas where I have higher-than-average expertise in specialized pronunciation are: Italian food and culture, birthing, sociology, and New England colonial history.
Thanks for reading.