Richard Poshard

Accents and Dialects: U.S. Midwest, U.S. Southern, U.S. Hillbilly Twang, New York, Jewish, Cultured British, "Snob" British, Cockney British, Australian, German, Over-the-Top Italian, Mild Slavic. Impersonations: Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Pat Buttram, Zany Jerry Lewis, Elmo, Bert and Ernie. Characterizations: I have an annoying child voice similar to Howie Mandel's Bobby character only much more annoying, I have been doing an insect voice for the Wogglebug (samples available on YouTube -- search for wogglebuglover) as well as other Oz characters, I can do gay voices, both subtle and over-the-top, I quite enjoy doing villainous roles as my natural baritone works well with them.

I have done voices in four movies. The first -- a comedy-adventure called "The Man from Schenectady" (available at Amazon.com) -- was written by me and features my voice as the main character Seymour Finklestein as well as Agent X-13, Seymour's Mother and the Talking ATM Machine. I played John Rabe in the historical drama "Vautrin", which should be released in 2013. I have just completed doing VO work a full-length family-fantasy film as the Wogglebug (working title "The Wogglebug's Adventure in New York")which will be released sometime in 2013. The fourth, "Lumberton Lake" is still in production for a late 2013/early 2014 release. I am currently working on an audio project based on the comic book "Cerebus the Aardvark" (sample available on request). In 2011 I played a number of characters in a series of animated training films for a company called Total Training which I believe was in Ireland (this was a sub-contract through a producer so I am not sure about the address details). Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (cum laud) in Theatre from Illinois Wesleyan University. All I use for home recording my Gateway computer. I have a Logitech cordless headphone and record using the Audacity software. I also do a lot of writing for my voice projects, always with the approval of the producer. In this way I create wording that sounds more natural for whatever voice I use. I always record the original script first, then (with permission) an alternate take. Most of the time, producers have preferred my alternate takes to the original.