Joy Katzen-Guthrie

Voice acting, Southern, Children's readings, Hebrew, Chinese (Mandarin)

Native of Memphis, Tennessee native, home has been in the Tampa Bay area since 1981. Versatile career as broadcast producer and manager, composer-lyricist-recording/concert artist, heritage tour leader, instructor/lecturer. Programmer/host of WMNF Radio Tampa's longtime (4-decade) broadcast, "The Sunday Simcha. Career beginning as Tampa Bay’s WPLP/News-Talk Radio as Traffic Director, then Executive Producer, then Operations Manager. Heard in commercials, public service programming, and as weekly talk host. Studio recording, music performance, and composition with simultaneous radio or voice over career as producer and announcer for 29 years. Speak and sing in concert, for colleges, universities, study groups, civic and religious organizations, and conventions/expos/seminars. A repertoire of thousands of songs. Operate Tune-of-the-Century Music® studios in the Tampa Bay/West Central Florida area with husband, Mark. Give lectures and concerts worldwide. Produce, mix, and master various recording projects, both musical and spoken word, in my studio and at remote locations. Active session musician, have been studio vocalist-keyboardist-composer for advertising, educational, and entertainment productions on TV, radio, cable, internet. Songwriting, Addy, and Silver Angel Awards. Instructor, speaker, concert artist with world-renowned Eckerd College Osher Lifelong Learning (OLLI) Institute (St. Petersburg) and University of South Florida’s OLLI Institute (Tampa), Eckerd College Road Scholar, Grand Edventures Learning (Boca Raton), Brandeis University Study Group (Boca Raton), Learn Inn (Jewish Federation of Baltimore) and others. Programs consistently rated among the highest (5 stars). Contributing writer to the 2007 edition of the Encylopedia Judaica. Photos have appeared in newspapers, magazines, journals, and internet sites from around the world. Received appointments to the Florida Artist Residency Directory in 1996 and 1999, funded by the State Division of Cultural Affairs. [Artist Residencies place practicing, professional artists in Florida Schools and Community Colleges to teach all aspects of their art form.] Have received two Arts Resource Fund performance arts grants from the Pinellas County Arts Council. Education-Extracurricular: Stephens College (Columbia, MO) graduate with BA (magna cum laude) and BFA (cum laude) degrees in Broadcast Communications and Music. Speech, audio, radio, television, film technical, creative, and business courses, piano performance, theory, music history, chamber music, conducting, orchestration, chorus and chamber choir. Campus radio/TV staff, conceived, developed, and established more than a dozen radio documentary, news, and public affairs program series, news anchor, considerable experience producing, directing, writing/scripting, editing, scoring, operating camera, announcing, performance. Scored and documented theatrical productions. Professional: Keynote speaker, teacher, lecturer. Tampa Bay’s WPLP News-Talk Radio (Traffic Director/Executive Producer/Operations Manager), WDAE-AM, WUSA-FM, WXCR-Classics 92 FM as announcer/producer. Worked for or with some of the finest voices/personalities in the broadcast business, including Michael Spears, Lora Cain, Jim Nettleton, David Gold, Dan Johnson. Director/Owner of Tune-of-the-Century Music® studio/broadcast systems integration business. Continuous performances since 1981 as soloist and with orchestras and bands both as member and leader. Highly adept in computer photo and graphic, audio and video editing, image, and web building skills. Equipment includes: MAC BASED PRO-TOOLS 11 HD-2 DIGITAL RECORDING STUDIO Pro Tools System with 32 channels of Apogee I/O Microphones include Soundelux U195, Sennheiser MD-421, AKG 414ULS, Shure SM-5B, Audio-Technica AT-4050 Manley Vox Box Mic Pre-amp UREI LA-3A, 1176, 1178 processing Meyer-HD1 Mid-field monitors Yamaha NS10 Near-field monitors Pacific Recorders & Engineering ABX console Custom-designed sound treatments by Acoustic Sciences Corporation (ASC) Sound Forge 11 & CD Architect 5.2 Software Steinberg Wavelab & M-Powered Pro Tools 7.1, 8.0 PC, TDM Protools 5.1, 6.4 MAC, TDM Protools 5.1.1 MAC High-speed cable for FTP or email delivery MP3, WAV, AIFF files Overnight CD-R/Data DVD and DAT 24-hour turnaround/same-day delivery Additionally, we work with outstanding studios in the Tampa Bay Area that provide ISDN services with 24-hour turnaround. More than three decades of experience as a performing artist, lecturer, teacher, speaker brings wide knowledge of a range of topics. Highly versatile, well-read in music, art, philosophy, history, science, religion/faith, political science. Writer of non-fiction and fiction, news, poetry, song, and prose. An excellent grammarian, I served as an English B.A. Assistant at Stephens College for four years, coaching students in essential and creative English reading, writing, and comprehension skills. Have edited numerous publications and newsletters over 3 decades in addition to broadcast copy. Designer, creator, and webmaster of my own extensive web site. An excellent listener and observer, I work intuitively in all I do, carefully assessing your intentions and goals, giving you the full attention you deserve, and relating your project with highest integrity.