Connie Payton

English American-straight,New York, Southern drawl English British-Cockny, Hamstead Heath,Leads Northern, Belfast/Dublin Irish, Scottish

Highly creative personality is how both professionals and instructors have described me. This trait is what I use to create innovative and unusual commercials, sometimes voicing them with the pipes I have utilized all my life on stage as an opera singer. My sound editing skills, using Adobe Audition 1.5 and Pro Tools, allow me to produce the commercials I write and voice. Being Creative Director and writer for “Payton Creatives” utilizes my copywriting skills for commercials, print ads and web sites. My interviewing skills result from researching and interviewing personalities such as Valerie Pringle (CTV), Erin Davis (CHFI), Joe Andrews (Humber College) and Stevie Vallance (Voice-over animation artist and Jazz Singer.) People usually find me easy going, eager to go above and beyond the call of duty, and quick to come to the rescue if needed; a Girl Friday in most situations; loyal, trustworthy, honest, persistent, and determined to be optimistic and helpful in the face of adversity. An education in performing arts completes a well-rounded personality. Related Experience •Short film Animation mother role for director Mike Weise,Toronto-2008 •Creative Director and Copywriter for Payton Creatives Inc, an advertising agency. Toronto -2000-2008 •Internship at AM 740 radio station – helped write some on-air commercials, and researched/edited for announcers -2006 •Radio banter guest of Dan McCluskey on 100.3 FM CKMS Waterloo -2006 •TV and radio commercial – Principle for Com Cast – Opera Singer-2006 •Creative Writer on 96.9 Humber Radio, writing weekly music show; creating commercials, station identification, promotions, documentaries for the News Magazine show Announcer/Host/Traffic/Entertainment of same-2005 •Commercial Voice Over – Louder Music and Design-2003 •Created, produced, recorded, and sold short stories utilizing CD medium -2004 •Radio and TV Broadcasts as an Opera/Concert singer on CFRB, the CBC, BBC, AFN, Rogers Community TV 1995-2000 •Consulted with sales, media, marketing representatives to obtain information on product or service and discussed style, length of advertising copy •Wrote articles, bulletins, sales letters, speeches, other related information, marketing and promotional materials •Varied language and tone of message to promote products. I learned to be a voice over starting at a private broadcasting school in Toronto where I obtained a Certificate of Broadcasting, under the tutiledge of Peter Mellor, Julia Paton and Dave Arkel. This also involved news reads, commercial and narrative voice overs and writings of same. I then took an Advanced Voice Over Certificate, under Bob Cook of City TV. I took advanced animation and voice over lessons from Earl Sky at the Humber College of Media Broadcasting, and recently, have completed an Advanced Certificate of Animation, while studying under Stevie Vallance; an Emmy award winning producer and animation artist; who considers my work to be excellent. In my early years, I worked with the Canadian Opera Company, Opera Lyra, and Opera Breva as an Opera singer, and later, made my living overseas as an Opera singer in England and Germany. Nowadays, as well as a voice over artist, I work as a published writer, a freelance journalist, and most recently , an events specialist. IBM compatible PC, P4-1.7G, 1G Ram, Windows XP, DVD R/W. Creative Labs Audigy 2 48K, 24bit,h 6 channel audio card. Adobe Audition 1.5 Audio record, editing, and write capabilities. Behringer UB802 Audio mixer. Studio Projects B1 condenser microphone. I am known as a natural actress; although I have also taken acting classes in my training. I have an in-home studio production facility; which makes it possible for speedy and accurate work. I work long and hard, and am adaptable to any voice over/animation situation. I have been an Opera, concert, and oratorio singer all my life, in Europe and in Canada, and have a copywriting and radio broadcasting certificate; which comes in handy for my own freelance company.