Nathan Sparks

British accent,Southern accent,Midwest accent (my native "tongue")

My largest experience with Voice-over was working for a college radio station for a little more than a year, being on the air and doing various announcements, such as weather or song titles or upcoming events. While at the radio, I would need to record weather updates and news updates, so I have some experience with recording in a more professional studio. I have also done some live voice-over work, having been asked to narrate for public events and give some speeches. Since then, I have dabbled with recording some poetry (mainly Edgar Allen Poe), since many friends and colleagues think my voice is a great match for the dark tones of his works. Recently I've been trying to record a version of "The Screwtape Letters," and that will hopefully come together before too much time passes. I recently graduated from Dordt College with a BA in Theater Arts: Acting and Directing. I have been heavily involved in theater since high school, even being nominated for some Theater Conference awards while attending Dordt. The many years of theater have helped me hone my voice to be able to be versatile and convey different emotions. Along with theater, I was also heavily involved in music at my college, being involved with various choirs as well as taking voice lessons to help hone my vocal chords. The year I spent at the radio station at Dordt was what really got me interested in voice-over and made me want to really pursue it as a career. Learning how to sell who I am solely through my voice was a great challenge, and I always looked forward to coming in to work. I don't have the best equipment at the moment, with my microphone being a Blue Nessie and being restricted to using Audacity for my recording process. It isn't the most ideal, but hopefully I will have an area better equipped for recording and a better program for editing. I want whatever project I work on to be the best that it could possibly be. I'll try different methods, approaches, techniques; I don't want to settle for something that isn't presentable. I also have a good sense of humor to try to help the process go better, yet I know when to turn off the humor in order to buckle down and be serious.