Kim Handysides

Accents: Neutral American + New Jersey, Southern, MidWest, Neutral Canadian, General African, East Indian, British, Australian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Isreali, Middle East, Jamaican, Asian, Chinese, North Atlantic, South African Characters: multiple! I can easily do 3 characters in the same project. Sound-Alikes: I've been hired to sound like Sigourney Weaver, Alison Janney, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Scarlett Johannson, Meryl Streep, and Susan Sarandon

Recent National commercials include Danone Yogurt, Hershey's Chipits, Weight Watchers, Tinder, Remax, L'Oreal, MacDonald's Business customers: Aetna, ATT, Stanford, Pfizer, BMS, Brother, Microsoft, Astra Zeneca, General Motors Telephone: Novartis, Blackberry, Laurentian Bank, Adam Health Games: Ubisoft, EA, Gameloft, Zynga Audiobooks: Margaret Atwood, Surfacing Awards: CANNES Animated Short, Communicator (multiple), Bessie, (+ Actor role in one Academy award nominated film) One on one Voice Training: Dave Walsh, MaryLynn Wissner, J. Michael Collins, Pat Fraley, Debra Toffin, Paul Bario, David Tyler Workshops & Classes: Scott Brick, Lisa Biggs, Kurt Kelly, Marc Graue, Rodney Saulsberry, Harlan Hogan !0 years in local, regional & national radio & television stations B.A. Communication Studies (with Honors) University of WIndsor Kim also works as a voice director for Syllables Studio, as a guest voice teacher at Dawson College & the National Theatre School in Montreal and conducts private and group performance workshops. Kim is always open to live collaboration with clients who want to direct during recording. My Studio includes a Whisperroom, Neumann TM103, RODE Broadcaster mic, Apogee1 mic, Scarlett Focusrite soundcard, Protools, Macbook Pro, Auralex mudguard Connections via SourceConnect, Phone patch or Skype. ISDN with 12 hours notice Turnaround <24 hours, 2 hours on rush projects With a background in journalism, acting, writing and production, I can offer full audio production services through my studio, Beau Talks. I also can provide, copyediting, writing and/or translation (French to English and vice versa) and direction. Thousands of TV/radio national, regional and local commercials, thousands of e-learning programs and modules (excellent medical/pharmaceutical vocabulary), audiobooks (fiction/nonfiction), documentaries (single shows and series), webinars, dubbing, versioning (V/O's overtop other languages in character). Former journalist, national cable weatherwoman, radio dj, news anchor, reporter, producer. Writer: blog, book, magazine & newspaper articles, corporate scripts, web-based films