Narration includes stories, news, travel and corporate presentations:NORTHRUP GRUMMAN, HUGHES, JPL, CAL TECH SCIENCE, medical etc. ANDERSON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AWARDS, AT&T, J.PAUL GETTY, BEHR PAINT, IBM, HERTZ, MOBIL OIL, ABBA, BOEING, HUGHES, MEDIC NET, N.J. BELL, J.C.PENNY, JOHN PAUL MITCHEL, J. P. L. SERIES. CRYSTAL CRUISES, NESTLE, ANDERSON BUSINESS AWARDS, Series of radio spots for COX COMMUNICATIONS etc.
Narrations also in French and Italian i.e. ROTATIONAL MOLDING, BEHR PAINT, OPI nails etc.
RADIO SPOTS FOR ABC, NBC, CNN Presents John Paul II - voice of Mother Tekla.
Also telephone and corporate messages.
Voice-over and ADR(automatic dialogue replacement)
work: PINK PANTHER II, DE-LOVELY (Cole Porter- 1920’s Paris) multiple scenes, French & Italian. Voice matching in Spielberg’s CATCH ME IF YOU CAN (K. Carlyle Hart), CHILDREN OF DUNE character voices in several languages, including science fiction “Gibberish”, accents, Latin chanting and multiple accents in THE SIN EATERS, southern and British in JUST MARRIED for 20th Century Fox.. Re-voicing and specialty accents in HANNIBAL, created the Docent and other characters in Rob Reiner’s film THE STORY OF US. She gave voice to SNOW WHITE and dwarf DOPEY, in a European animated version, the ‘Witch’ in Mel Brooks American version of THE VISITOR, Julie Andrews voice in DUET FOR ONE, a computer voice in SOLAR CRISIS, the Countess in SWANN IN LOVE, various children and accents in ANALYSE THIS, characters in THE WIZARD, FORGET PARIS and North Carolina dialogue in RUN THE WILD FIELDS.
THE CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH & DRAMA - LONDON
ALESSANDRO FERSEN STUDIO - ROME ITALY
WARREN ROBERTSON & LARRY MOSS ALICE SPIVAK - NYC
JERED BARCLAY - LOS ANGELES
Presently COLD READING WORKSHOPS for major casting directors.
SIMULTANEOUS CONFERENCE INTERPRETER / TRANSLATOR
FRENCH & ITALIAN - scripts, screenplays, books.
see resume for extensive VOICE-OVER NARRATION and feature film & TV ADR.
MY OWN 'AUDIO STUDIO' - JUST RECORDED A SERIES OF PHONE MENUS FOR SCREEN ACTORS GUILD.
SONY SOUND FORGE 8 recording program.
SONY CD ARCHITECT 5
SONY NOISE REDUCTION 2.0
ROKIT KRK SPEAKERS 5.25" 2 way powered
TASCAM FRONTIER US-122 AUDIO MIDI-INTERFACE USB
SHURE KSM32 STUDIO MIC - PF-1 POP FILTER
groovetubes.com mic holder
SE RELECTION FILTER (for mic)- www.seelectronics.com
BELKIN 5 USB PORT - essential for enough 'juice'.
2 stands - mic is on A padded desk with mic inside the 'mic cozy' reflection filter facing extra sound proofing.
Extensive Acting experience; theatre, film & TV interviewer.
Corporate coaching for presentations and speeches.
DIALOGUE COACH: Martitia for years has coached actors, interviewers and presenters for feature films, television, commercials and corporate presentations in English, both for clarity and tone range as well as a variety of accents: U.S. Southern, British, German, Slavic, Irish, Mid-Atlantic as well as Italian and French dialogue for American actors and accent reduction for foreign voice over actors.
Work on timbre, pitch and breathing in a natural way allowing a presenter/ interviewer/ actor/ to incorporate clarity and ‘tone’ into normal speech; simple tools for greater ease in communication while respecting the performer’s talent.
Martitia, the first woman announcer at K.A.B.C., has coached actors in Italy, New York and Los Angeles in three languages for a variety of accents using imagery to encourage the actor to find the character, as well as business executives for corporate presentations. Coaching: accent reduction (i.e. British to American, Southern), & addition – (ie American to British, French etc) variety in presentation for speeches, work on timbre, pitch and breathing in a natural way allowing a presenter/ interviewer/ actor/ to incorporate clarity and ‘tone’ into normal speech; simple tools for greater ease in communication while respecting the performer’s talent.
Coaching includes - Marlon Brando for Pepsi (Pytka), as well as commercials for the Dreyfuss Fund (Herb Ritts), LUX hair (Japan) with Catherine Zeta Jones and MTV “Undressed”, Jennifer Garner, star of ‘ALIAS’, Alice Rietveld for an international eye commercial series. She has worked with Miramax and the star of AMÉLIE, DIRTY PRETTY THINGS, and A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT Audrey Tautou, coaching and interpreting for her on all Press Conferences and the Première and with Warner Brothers for the director of MARCH OF THE PENGUINS.
Some of my screenplay translations and adaptations: for TITANUS FILMS – 2 miniseries: MICHAEL STROGOFF and THE VOLCANO LOVER. THE AMERICAN GUEST for Collepardi Films, A SLIP IN TIME For Terence & Jess Hill - THE MANZONI SISTERS - SHOOTING STARS - THE UNKINDEST CUT - S.O.S. A CHRONOLOGY OF COMPASSION.
Acting roles include a Novitiate in “The Nun’s Story”, the Bride in Maestro Fellini’s “Giulietta of the Spirits”, “Galileo” with Kurt Jurgens as his daughter, a nun. A wild Gertrude in Boston’s North Shore Theatre’s production of “Hamlet”. The tragic heroine in the world premiere of “Tosca 43” in N.Y.C. followed by “Portrait of a Woman” in Los Angeles as Guibot/Azanneau, the comic lead of Anna in “Spaghetti and Apple Pie” at the Court Theatre and the ensemble “The Powder Room” with Sally Kirkland & Lana Clarkson. The lead in the feature comedy short “Eye of the Beholder”, the school nurse in “Splitsville”, eccentric mother in the indie feature “My Next Funeral” director: Frederick Friedel.