Billie Jo Konze

Dialects/accents I can perform are: Standard British, Cockney/Lower Class British, Dublin (Irish), German, Southern, Kentucky-Tennessee, Minnesotan and New York.

With past clients including Pillsbury, Yoplait, Hershey, HealthPartners, Cambia Health and Traditional Medicinals, I have experience in commercial, IVR/telephony, corporate narration and explainer videos, promos, audiobooks and fictional radio dramas. Thanks to seven years of working for the University of Minnesota Medical School, and five years of volunteering to record medical information for the blind, I have a facility with medical terminology and can bring warmth to difficult text. I am a professionally-trained actor with a bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota, and further training in improv, on-camera acting, and vocal performance through classes at the Guthrie Theater, Brave New Workshop, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, and Shakespeare and Company of Lennox, MA. My home studio: *Sennheiser MKH 416 Shotgun Microphone *Steinberg UR12 USB Interface *StudioBricks One double-walled recording booth In addition to speaking, I am also a singer (mezzo-soprano).