Zenobia Ballard - genteel, airy, youthful - Zenobia Ballard at Voice123

genteel, airy, youthful

• Zenobia Ballard is registered with Voice123 since May 27, 2006.
• Zenobia Ballard started his/her voice over career in .
• Currently Zenobia Ballard is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0
• Zenobia Ballard was last active on Voice123 25 days ago

Voice Description

There is a colorful variety in my voice range. Overall, my voice acting is emotionally expressive, and can sound rich and animated. Primarily my native language is English, but I am comfortable with narrating in Spanish. My narration tone is airy, youthful, feminine, and smooth, with a warm, amicable quality. Yet I also have a repertoire of accents and voice over personalities at my disposal for acting out cartoon characters' voices and roles in commercial spots. My accents include British, urban/ethnic, valley girl, and a non-accented professional. The female voice ages and personalities that I am able to portray include a natural early twenties woman, a teen, an elderly and ornery ethnic southerner, a chipper cartoonish senior citizen, a shy toddler, a fun-loving precocious grade schooler. I also have a soprano singing voice that is ideal for performing jingles or other types of music.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Child
• Teenage Girl
• Young Adult Female

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
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries
• Podcasts
• Songs

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

Unknown - Click here to ask Zenobia Ballard

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

Unknown - Click here to ask Zenobia Ballard

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask Zenobia Ballard

My Voice Experience

I enjoy the art of entertaining an audience with comedic improv. My demos are a result of my constant search for creative outlets for my talents which include: scriptwriting, voice acting, stage acting (indoor & outdoor), songwriting, vocal talent/singing (soprano), and public speaking/oration. Notably, all the material in my demos was written and performed by myself using a home audio editing suite. All the demos are fictitious advertisement for made-up products. The many accents and voice acted personalities come from a lifetime of exposure to animation, video gaming, and drama study. Much of it was conceptualized from radio voices that I performed for college Broadcast Production classes. The more important skill that I developed in these classes was the flexibility to adjust my speech rate to fall into a specifically allotted number of seconds. I have also held numerous call center customer service representative jobs, where my customers have had to ask if I was a real person or a pre-recorded on hold message prompt directing their call. Companies that I have represented as a telephone service liaison include WMGF-Magic 107.7 FM, Maitland,FL/ PFPC Global Funds, King of Prussia, PA/ Independence Blue Cross, Philadelphia, PA. I have also worked a number of guest service jobs that require professional and inviting interface with the general public for: Universal Studios,Orlando, FL/ Walt Disney World Co., Lake Buena Vista, FL; all of these experiences being ideal proving grounds for my development as a professional verbal communicator.

My Training

Performing Arts:

Bishop Moore Drama Society,Orlando,FL-
*Mrs. Bradford (role)/The Trouble with Mothers by Leota Harris Keir
*Puck (role)/A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare
*May Pole Dance Maiden/Medieval Festival Atmosphere Character
*Person with Five Months of Bills (role)/A Christmas Medley; Skit Inspired by The Twelve Pains of Christmas by Bob Rivers
*Ragseller's Customer (role requiring British Accent)/Adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Walt Disney World, Disney-MGM Studios,Lake Buena Vista,FL-
*auditioned and was selected for Entertainment Training as Characters Cast Member/Summer 1998

Music:

Piano Lessons-Jones High School Weekend Program-
Orlando, FL

Children's Choir-St John Vianney School-Orlando, FL

Gospel Choir Rehearsal Volunteer-Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, FL

Communications:

Bethune-Cookman College (classes)-
Effective Oral Communication/Mass Communications/
Public Relation Practices

Media Production:

Bethune-Cookman College (classes)-
TV Production/Radio Production/Mass Media Research/Communication Graphics/Advertising/Mass Communication

Degree:

Class of 1996
Bachelor of Arts in English (Literature/Creative Writing concentration) with summa cum laude honors

Minor in Broadcast Production Technology

My Studio Equipment

Unknown - Click here to ask Zenobia Ballard

Additional Skills

Other talents and hobbies that make the well rounded fun-loving individual that I am include: song writing, singing (soprano), playing the piano/music reading, illustration/sketching, poetry writing, storytelling, language acquisition (Spanish, various East Asian languages), creative writing (fiction/non-fiction), yoga, jogging, nature walks, travel.