Glen McCready

Animation and Games characters are a speciality: especially crazy, eccentric old wizards plus narrators with gravitas! BBC/R.P./Neutral Standard English (think Patrick Stewart, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins), Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Yorkshire (UK), Somerset (UK), London Cockney (UK), American (New York, Southern States, Standard American), South African, German, Russian, Spanish, French, Australian Characters include: Brit or US geeks, ancient mad professors, Sean Connery, game show hosts, cartoon animals (raccoon, bear, squirrel, rabbit, dog - Scooby Doo and Muttley-style)

The voice of Signor in Russell T. Davies' BBC/HBO 6 part drama "Years and Years" starring Emma Thompson, HIGS in ROBINSON: THE JOURNEY for PS4 VR and Zygmunt Budge, J.K. Rowling's specially-created stand-alone character for PS3's "Wonderbook: Book of Potions" and Major Crum in Episodes 1-4 of "Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures" videogames. Audiobooks: Past Mortem (AudioFile Magazine's Earphones Award Winner); The Gypsy Madonna (AudioFile Magazine's Earphones Award Winner); James & the Alien Experiment (BBC); The Society of Others (W F Howes). His work has been favourably reviewed in the UK national press: Sunday Times and Guardian, as well as in the US AudioFile Magazine and Publisher's Weekly. Commercials: Rolling Stones Bigger Bang UK Tour, Red Hot Chilli Peppers UK Tour, Il Divo UK Tour, The Who UK Concert, Madonna's Confessions Tour (UK), Strictly Come Dancing - The Live Tour (the original UK version of America's Dancing with the Stars), Rod Stewart (UK tour), Bon Jovi (UK concert), Eric Clapton (UK tour), Guns 'n' Roses (UK tour), Thunderstick Pro (Infomercial)and many, many more. Corporates: Royal Bank of Scotland; Volvo; BAE Systems; The Scouts; Ritz Carlton Group; SAKS. Animation: Pixels (Aardman/UK Film Council) Educational recordings: Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Pearson Education. On Hold Messages: various UK companies including Abbey Building Society; Travel Bag; Fawesley Hall Hotel. Radio Drama: BBC Radio 4's Chatterton: The Allington Solution by Peter Ackroyd (May 2008), several plays for BBC Schools' Radio; Artist With Designs for BBC Radio 3's The Verb. The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London (3 Year Acting Course, Honours Graduate), comprising intensive voice and speech training, radio drama technique, classical text and all areas vital to a successful voice over artist. Samson C01U USB Studio Condenser Microphone (voice recordings have been created on my equipment for: radio commercials, on-hold messages, website narrations, corporate narrations, animations, in-store videos and more) Glen sings to an excellent standard (High Baritone) and as well as recording songs for children's educational and entertainment projects, has appeared as Edward Lyons in the West End musical Blood Brothers alongside David Cassidy. Glen reads the International Phonetic Alphabet and recorded the majority of spoken pronunciations on the CD ROM of the Pearson Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (9th Edition) under the direction of J C Wells, Professor of Phonetics in the University of London