Benjamin Tett

African, West Indian, Brooklyn, Southern America, Urban American, 70's Blaxploitation Cool, American Collegiate, etc.

I have been acting in community plays since I was in junior high school. My mother taught me how to enunciate words when I was very young and as such I have no DC accent. Most people to hear me speak assume I am from Africa or New York. If you really want to hear what I am capable of you can listen to a 2 minute advertisemtent song I wrote and recorded for a publicly held Software company's Christmas party. All the voices are done by me. It is unofficially called the Blackboard rap (of Blackboard Inc). I went to Carnegie Mellon university where I received a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I am reasonably well read and as such I draw on a variety of dialects in an effort to pepper my speech with colloquialisms from many different regions. I try to have fun when I speak. Many of my colleagues refer to my manner of speaking as, "Word Smithing". I have access to a professional studio as required. I am not a waiter waiting to break into show biz. I am quite happy with my current job. The reason why I am seeking voice work is because this type of thing comes quite naturally to me and as such I am often considered strange, by the uninitiated. I went to an open call in NYC once and I had the time of my life. I truly felt that I was in my element. Not the whole milling about trying to be recognized thing, no. When I was reciting a sollioquy from a Quentin Tarantino movie, that is when I felt that I was in my element. YEAH!!!!! BTW. I love cartoons and old looney tunes characters voices are how I was, ahem, self-trained. :-)