Samantha Gubitz

I first learned I could mimic accents within the first two days of living in South Carolina. I had adopted and couldn't stop talking in a Southern Accent. By hard work I recovered my Non-Regional American again, but since then, Southern, specifically South Carolinian and Georgian Southern accents are the easiest for me to slip into. I can mimic a British accent: Posh, RP, Cornish (a classic Pirate accent), some Irish, some Scottish, and some regional dialects from the UK once I hear them. I can also mimic New York, Brooklyn, Bronx, and New Jersey accents pretty well, as well New Zealand and Farsi and Indian.

I have been a storyteller all my life, always giving different voices to characters and mimicking actor's accents in movies. It was only two years ago, however, that I finally realized I could record my voice for a career. The first job I had was for a friend's business. I became the "Answering Machine". Then I did a commercial for my church and another Voicemail message. That led into volunteering for the online, public domain audio book website, LibriVox.org where I acquired most of my experience with audio recording and editing. Now I want to use my voice in whatever way I can. This is my dream job and I'm reaching for the stars. In my love for storytelling, I was bit by the theater bug in high school with the first drama class I attended. Since then, and when I was cast, I have been in as many theater productions as possible from Musicals, to Shakespeare, to Comedy, and to Tragedy. I attended Bob Jones University and left with a B.S. in Apparels, Textiles and Design, and a MA in Performance Studies. I took classes on speech and vocal skills, performing Shakespeare, acting, and stage movement. I learned the IPA and how to project in a classroom, an auditorium, a theater, and a soccer field. My Masters thesis was a One-woman show on the Biblical book of Esther that I compiled, adapted, researched, and designed. I have led classes for Pastoral students on proper techniques for the diaphragm and have tutored non-English speakers with their pronunciations. I also lectured on an adaptation I attempted for a Reader's Theater production. But my greatest love in performing arts has always been for storytelling and using my voice to bring characters to life in people's imagination. That is why I am here. Personal studio with treated area for clean sound CAD u3 USB mic, with pop filter Mac Garageband '08 Audacity 1.2.6 Cool Edit Pro 2.0 Most of my job experience is Customer Service answering phones. I have developed proper phone etiquette while maintaining a pleasant and energetic operator voice.