Paul Hodgson

(UK accents/dialects) Received Pronunciation (Queen's English/BBC English), Upper Class Toff, Yuppy, Scottish Highlands, Scottish Lowlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Glasgow drunk, Glasgow barmaid, Newcastle, Cumbrian, Cumbrian Farmer, Cumbrian Thug, Cumbrian trying to sound posh, Lancastrian, Manchester, Liverpudlian (posh and common), Yorkshire (North and South), Bedfordshire, Thames Estuary, Kentish, Cornwall/Devon, Country bumpkin, South Wales, Cardiff, North Wales, Swansea Camp, Southern Irish, Northern Irish, Cockney, Cockney Wide-boy, Cockney trying to sound posh, London Jewish, South London, East London, North London Somerset. (European and Asian accents) French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Swiss, Austrian, Scandinavian (including Danish, Swedish, Norwegian), Eastern European (including Czech, Polish, Romanian), Russian, Russian peasant, Russian KGB, Russian aristocracy, Turkish, Egyptian, Persian, Israeli, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, (Other world accents) South African, Australian, New Zealand, Central African, Chinese, Japanese, (American continent) Canadian, Quebecois, Maine, Connecticut, New York Manhattan Toff, New York native English speaker taxi driver, Bronx, New York Jewish, Texan, Californian, Mexican.

I have recorded a number of fiction and non-fiction titles for Macmillan and Audible which can all be seen on my Audible page (https://www.audible.com/search?searchNarrator=Paul+Hodgson), including several that required significant language study in both Norwegian and German. I just finished playing a range of parts in Audiocomic’s latest production: EC Comics Presents: THE VAULT OF HORROR! Prior to that, I was the lead character and narrator in a Final Runes Production called Journey with Strange Bedfellows (http://www.a-strange-journey.com/) which won a Mark Time award and was a HEAR Now official listening selection in 2015. I was also one of the lead characters in the full cast Audible Drama production of Jeffery Deaver's The Starling Project, where, surprise, surprise, I played the English bad guy, among a number of other roles. That production won the 2016 Audie Award for Best Original Work and the 2014 Earphones Award (Audiofile Magazine). I was also the lead in the Audie award winning production, again with Bill, of The Masque of the Red Death (https://www.radiodramarevival.com/episode-422-exploring-a-masque-of-red-death/). And, finally, I appeared in a few roles in the two X-Files Audible dramatisations. I have also done a large amount of cartoon and videogame voiceover work for Slimgoodbody Productions, including a wide variety of voices and characters for PBS cartoons, ranging from Rene Descartes to Albert Einstein. Prior to that I worked for the BBC in London on a number of projects from radio drama to poetry reading. I have a BA Hons in English Language and Literature from Durham University in England, and an MFA in Performance from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Wales. I am currently the artistic director of a professional theatre company based in midcoast Maine - the Everyman Repertory Theatre - where I direct, produce or perform. My latest film was Island Zero (https://www.amazon.com/Island-Zero-Laila-Robinsas/dp/B07C46P1TQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1526386152&sr=8-2&keywords=island+zero+movie), where I improvised the entire opening scene. I am also a fluent French speaker, relatively fluent in Spanish, and can speak Italian and German. I have access to a full sound studio at Post Office Editorial in Camden (http://www.postofficeeditorial.com/) as well as a home studio.