Dinnis Keefe

American Theater Standard (Mid-Atlantic) Southern English dialects (Southern "aristocratic," Appalachian, Texan Received British Cartoon (various ranging from high-pitched and frenetic to deep and dumb!), game (villain [threatening, sarcastic, supercilious])

I started my voice career in "rip-'n-read" radio. These were small stations where any rewrites of copy occurred in real-time, five words ahead of what was being said. This was a great whetstone to sharpen script interpretation. I progressed to better stations, where writer and agency copy ruled and more demand was placed on perfect interpretation and production. In-house station spots led to agency voiceovers, and I found a new love: true voice acting. I decided in high school to pursue a career in broadcast without happening to notice that a lifetime in the South had left me with a bit of a regional accent! My first step to a relatively neutral North American pattern of speech was Theater Atlanta School of Acting, a winter haven for New York actors, directors and coaches who chose a season of climatic and social warmth before re-entering the frigid fray in the Big Apple. A year of enduring their almost brutal training left me well on my way. A further year in the heart of neutral American speech country, the midwest, left me with just a tiny bit southern on my vocal palate and in my technique palette to call on when needed for warmth. Further coaching and seminars over the years left me confident to take a piece of copy and correctly read it for time in one take. Thus, the nuts and bolts of the VO process taken care of, producers have had the time to tweak interpretation and intent, which they seem to want to do more than deal with, "You're three seconds short; let's try another take...." Lewitt 440 Pure Tube preamp SSL-12 Pre/AD Various Macintoshes for laying down the digits and sending them on. Copywriting Editing 25 years of personal and professional musicology study lending itself to selection of appropriate music for a project Direction of voice talent in copy interpretation.