William Tate - Warm, Friendly, Smooth, Versatile, Dynamic, Sexy

Warm, Friendly, Smooth, Versatile, Dynamic, Sexy

• William Tate is registered with Voice123 since Oct 24, 2003.
• William Tate started his/her voice over career in 1988.
• Currently William Tate is a Premium subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 15
• William Tate has been active on Voice123 during the past 48 hours

Voice Description

Warm and deep for narrations, cool and sexy for commercials, smooth, versatile and professional for presentations. An intimate and dynamic storyteller with feeling and emotion. Producers have compared my performance style to that of Morgan Freeman. Clients have said that I have a great facility with African-American, Caribbean, American Southern, Southeast Asian, and South African accents and dialects.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Adult content
• Others (on-camera, informercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for British Equity signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• AFTRA (US)

• SAG (US)

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer voice direction services
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

New York City, New York, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

African-American, Caribbean, New York, American Southern, Southeast Asian, South African: Southern; from a Mississippi Disk Jockey way down deep in the Delta to a North Carolinian Baptist Minister.
New Yorker; from a Broadway theater goer to a low down, hard drivin', wise crackin', story tellin', New York cabbie. East Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi; from a Middle aged Second Avenue Restauranteur to a Queens Lotto winner.

My Voice Experience

Some past and current Voice Over Clients: Kodak, Gain Detergent, Prudential Financial, Hasbro Toys, Royal Caribbean Lines, Miller Lite. Recent Narration Clients: Philip Morris, AT&T, NYU Law School, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Columbia University- Institute For Life Coping Skills, St. Vincent's Hospital.
Recent Promo Clients: Comedy Central- Christian Finnegan Tour, PBS- America Works, Court-TV. Extensive work as a Voice Actor: "AFTRA Hours"-Radio Voices and dramatizations, United Network Radio Stations-sketch comedy, and interactive phone skits. Dubbing for feature and independent film as well as an Italian adult television series.

My Training

B.A., CCNY-Speech & Theater Arts; On Camera-National Academy Television Arts and Sciences Television Workshop, Voice over-Ruth Franklin; Audition Workshop - Michael Shurtleff; Scene Study-HB Studios; Musicianship and Voice; High School of Music & Art, NYC.

My Studio Equipment

AKG C414B (primary mic), Edirol UA 25 audio interface, Sony Soundforge 9.0 audio editing suite

Additional Skills

Hosted "America Works" on PBS-TV. I am the writer/performer of the Off-Broadway comedy "Charm School Tales" and have appeared in regional theater productions across America. Currently I am appearing in the Ridley Scott feature, "American Gangster" as Denzel Washington's minister. Under former NYC Mayor Giuliani's quality of life initiatives, I was chosen to teach courtesy classes(as well as disabled sensitivity laws) to NYC cab drivers at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, NY. Intended to make the taxi industry more user friendly to the public, these classes attracted much local and national media attention.