PATRIOTIC ANYTHING: Veteran of the US Air Force as Lead Singer and Professional Narrator and Emcee for the Air Force Rock Band and Popular Music Performance Combo. My first love is any gig that may support or uplift our military or our military families in any way.
Lets talk characters:
Awesome Screams, Groans, Grunts, Moans, Video Game Sounds, Baby laughing, girls giggling, dying slowly, dying quickly, stabbed, struck, fight scenes, driving sounds, farm animals, cartoon characters.
I LOVE doing scary laughs, haunting ghosts, and I do a mean "Wicked Witch Of the West"!
Tongue twisters & Speed reading is one of my specialties: and I LOVE the challenge!
Darker characters are fun and wild: Dry, crabby, impersonal, angry, loud, seething, "witchy-poo", "cranky old woman, disgruntled customer/employee, jealous, cold, conceited, "the hurt wife or jilted lover", straight/flat (doctor delivering sad news), boring monotone (geometry teacher), afraid, frantic, haunting, ghostly, quietly unnerving (mental patient), speech impediments such as dental challenges, facial deformities, and disabilities which affect speech including the "speaking deaf".
Light/Fun Characters: The "life of the party": fun, young, fresh, everybody's gal-pal, very "smiley", giggly, sweet, teenager flirtatious/silly (Oh My God! He did not!!!)the girl next door, young and hip, All 4 of the "Sex & The City" type personalities. Also, tipsy, drunk, "the confused blonde", the ever-ridiculously picky neighbor, the office gossip, the PTA perfect soccer Mom.
Professional Characters: the Narrator, the Teacher, The professional, The College professor, The Church Mom. the voice of many technical instruction manuals. Choose from other attritbutes such as: clear, concise, high powered CEO, warm and friendly, very "put together and prepared for the business meeting", commanding respect, no-nonsense/ "Don't even think of interrupting me-type of boss", the producer, director, dance audition director ("NEXT!!!"), The lawyer, the judge, the preacher, the lady in the church choir everybody tries to avoid...
Sexy characters: Exceptionally good at very sexy, very adult: smokey, smooth, flirtatious, naughty, sweet and sassy,
dominant, submissive. Very horny, teasing, loving and heart-to-heart type of close. I am not afraid, embarrassed or offended by language.
Characterizations a la carte:
Hysterical crying female of all ages, yet still able to be understood clearly through the crying jag. Bored, unimpressed, restrained hatred, nervous ranging from slightly agitated and worried, to drug addicted paranoid. Distracted, detached, uncaring, overly interested, annoyingly friendly, so sweet that your teeth hurt. Broken English from Asian or Mexican immigrants, white trash of all ages, redneck type woman, Nascar hussy.
Emotionally wounded, terrified, in massive pain both emotional and physical, "game show" excited, sarcastic, game show host "speaking through the perfect smile", "bad ventriloquist", "good ventriloquist", large vocabulary to speak professionally regarding medical, legal and corporate terminology. Cheesy gum popping ditzy female, "Spanglish" as is depicted by Peggy Hill of "King of the Hill".
Impersonations: Huge Voices such as Ethel Merman, Ursella (The Sea Witch from The Little Mermaid", Belle (from "Beauty & the Beast), Ariel (from Little Mermaid), Lucille Ball type "putting on a show with Mickey Rooney", Liza Minelli, Cher, Selma and Patty (from the Simpsons), Barnyard Animals, birds... little tiny voices such as Carol Channing and cartoon voiced girls.
Okay, I'll admit it. I'll try just about anything, and if I can't do it, I'll practice it until I can do it. Challenge me!
Dialects: I have no natural accent and no obvious accent of any kind, yet can do many accents with very good actualization. I have lived all over the country, and I love to play with impersonations of different areas of the country.
Minnesota "Norweigan/Swede/Pollack: much like "Margie" from the movie "Fargo".
Southern Belle: the debutante, sweet and shy or loud and obnoxious. Also the "hillbilly" and "trailer trash", Mexican ethnic gang female with a small vocabulary of Hispanic words: however I sing and record Mexican music, so I am able to learn to speak ethnic with some Mexican language thrown in. Strong Mexican Gang-chick accent with attitude.
Rich girl, shopping queen, satirical comedy, and "over the top" Jewish women.
Although I enjoy anything that lets me work behind a microphone- I'm actually a life long trained singer/musician. Please contact me to be directed to hear some samples of my musical recordings: my personal songwriting, demo/studio singing, professional stage singing, vocal training, light opera, jazz, country, rock, classic rock, soul, R&B,Gospel, spiritual, atheral, religious, hymns as well as many cover song recordings.
Favorite voices that really are fun for me: anything wild, weird, "over-the-top", SNL style character parodies, yet I also really enjoy the challenge of doing the very highly professional TV reporter/ news anchor, the talk show hostess who can't keep from laughing (that's done on purpose), and really, just about anything that stretches me. I really love a challenge, and I can give you your character, if you can give me direction.
Without direction, I like to send in 2-3- or even 4 different auditions reads so you can hear some different choices of the character you are asking for.
Make me work! I love it!
Here's a question I don't have an answer for: if you're ever looking for serious silliness that requires two characters, both my husband and 12 year old son also do many characters in sketch comedy live on stage with me. My husband does a fierce "Over-The-Top-Announcer" and we wonder if there are jobs we can do together? How does that sort of audition work?