Sarah is an actor, voice teacher, voiceover talent & communication coach with a long and varied career. She brings a lot to her voiceover work. She has been called easy to direct by numerous directors & coaches. Clients find her to be relaxed and professional, delivering quality work promptly and consistently. She welcomes live-direct sessions, and enjoys the connection with clients that work environment offers.
Sarah's voice can be described as rich, full and deep, yet with an easy lightness and brightness shining through at times. Her years of teaching voice to career actors means her voice is free and easy, able to go anywhere in response to text or direction. If you want a 'whisky' voice, this is it, if you want light, and playful, she has it, and if you want whisky with a layer of playful, there's always that option.
Her vocal agility means she can offer you vocal rasp or nasality, breathiness or punch, smoothness with warmth or cool intelligence. She can give you a flat, bored read or an over-the-top hyper-enthusiastic version. A free and flexible voice means there are endless possible interpretations for every syllable spoken. She can also sing really well and is very good with accents.
Her acting experience means she can be as expressive or restrained as requested. If your copy calls for a sincere connection with the listeners, Sarah delivers with easy emotion in her voice that will let people tap into their compassion without feeling overwhelmed. Or maybe your copy calls for an intellectual response from the listeners and a call to action. She can do that too. She can be clear and articulate or messy and casual, vocally transformative or sincere and relaxed. She also has the vocal freedom it takes to be subtle, to reveal delicate, intelligent, nuanced shifts in thought and feeling. And her improv training and comedic acting experience mean she can let the humour in the text shine through with impeccable timing.
Sarah has been a professional voice actor for TV & film for about 30 years. In that time, she has worked on shows such as 'Coroner', 'Crawford', 'Heartland', 'Blue Murder', 'Haven', 'Young Drunk Punk', 'Traders', 'More Tears' and 'Earth Final Conflict' and feature films/MOWs including 'Mouthpiece', 'Random Acts of Violence', 'Beeba Boys', 'Sunshine Sketches', 'Hobo With a Shotgun', 'Free Fall', 'Last Night', 'Boy Meets Girl' and 'The Big Hit'.
She has been the voice for numerous colourful characters including: a nine year old boy; an eighty year old woman; a woman in a park talking to flowers; a screaming woman with a baby in an airplane that is crashing; a sobbing woman in an airplane that is crashing; a gossipy teenager on a school bus that is crashing; a murderous woman in a mob of freaked out people; an angry, swearing prostitute; a dominatrix in a sex club; a cat having sex on a fire escape; the voice on the GPS; the voice on the hospital PA system; the cop in the background; the emergency room doctor in the background; the victim of a bomb explosion screaming their head off; a woman getting strangled by a super-natural vine (she did a record-breaking 7 second continuous scream followed by a gurgle for that one); a TV news reporter; a weather reporter; a radio station traffic reporter; a TV sports commentator; a loud rodeo fan; and a donkey singing off key… although she is pretty sure that is the only way a donkey can sing.
Anne Bishop, author of 'Under The Bridge' was delighted with Sarah's narration of the audiobook, “I am delighted with the job you did of reading it! It is fun to listen to. I’m so impressed with your ability to do the scenes with more than two people—up to five with the young people in the alley—and always make it clear who is speaking..." The audiobook producer, one of Canada's most prolific, said he had never done so little editing.
Her long career as a professional theatre actor, voice actor, voiceover talent and voice teacher are a testament to her discipline and reliability as well as to her skill and talent. She understands how people talk. She knows the phrasing of human thought. And she knows how to captivate listeners and engage their hearts and minds with her voice so they listen. Not because they have to. Because they want to.
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Skills and services offered
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English - USA and Canada
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Voice gender & age
Female teenager
Female young adult
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Female senior
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Additional services offered
Deliver edited and finished voice over
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Write the copy
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ACTRA (Canada)
Recording and delivery options
Digital delivery
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Additional vocal abilities
Animated, Announcer, Approachable, Articulate, Athletic, Authentic, Authoritative, Believable, Bright, Call-to-Action, Charming, Cheerful, Chick-Next-Door, Classy, Clear, Comforting, Confident, Contemporary, Conversational, Cool, Corporate, Current, Dependable, Direct, Down-to-Earth, Dramatic, Dynamic, Educated, Elegant, Emotional, Energetic, Engaging, Enthusiastic, Experienced, Fresh, Friendly, Fun, Funny, Gentle, Genuine, Girl-Next-Door, Happy, Honest, Informative, Intelligent, Inviting, Knowledgeable, Mature, Millennial, Modern, Motivational, Mom, Motherly, Natural, Original, Perky, Personable, Persuasive, Playful, Polished, Powerful, Professional, Pure, Raspy, Real, Reassuring, Refined, Refreshing, Relatable, Relaxed, Reliable, Resonant, Romantic, Sarcastic, Sassy, Seasoned, Sensual, Sexy, Sincere, Smart, Smooth, Soft, Soothing, Sophisticated, Straightforward, Strong, Stylish, Sultry, Sweet, Talented, Tough, Trendy, Trustworthy, Unique, Upbeat, Urgency, Versatile, Vibrant, Warm, Whisper, Young. Learns accents quickly and well. Accents include: Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, Italian; Long Island, Jewish; Atlanta, Georgia; Dublin, Ireland; Edinburgh, Scotland; Newfoundland, Canada (one Newfoundland dialect of the many); Quebecois (Montreal & Quebec City). Good donkey and goat sounds. Trained Singer with a Rich, Warm voice and lots of range. Able to memorize text and melodies quickly. Very good at creating unique character voices by playing with pitch range, vocal quirks & texture, like painting from the inside out with vibrations.
Experience, training, and equipment
After receiving an Honours B.F.A. in Acting from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, Sarah put down her roots in the vibrant, artistic city of Toronto, Ontario and became a professional theatre actor & voice actor. Her path led her to an appreciation of voice as the conduit for talent. With a generous grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, she became one of the first voice teachers in Canada to be personally trained by the renowned Kristin Linklater, accomplished actor, writer, director and primary developer of the method now known as 'Freeing the Natural Voice.' Her work as a theatre actor has led to acclaim within the Toronto arts community, while her work as a voice teacher has led to an international client base of superlative actors.
Recently Sarah has started working with non-actors on their voices too, helping lawyers, doctors, executives and others become more confident in their speaking voices, become more or less vocally expressive, as needed, and giving them the tools they need to continue vocal development on their own.
With 30 years of voice-acting for TV and film under her belt, and almost as many years experience as a voice and acting teacher, her transition into VO was seamless. Voice Over is now a welcomed and natural addition to her already diverse career.
Sarah has a new studio in her backyard, with ethernet connection and customized acoustic paneling for that professional sound quality. She has a very solid set-up with her Warm-Audio WA-87 R2 large diaphragm condenser mic, Scarlett 2i2 interface and MacBook Pro. She can deliver fully edited VO ready to go, or deliver the audio raw for you to finish as you wish. She is also happy to add music and/or write or the copy. As an avid reader & writer herself, and with all her acting experience, she knows good, believable dialog when she reads it. Willing to work in different time zones.
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Languages
English - USA and Canada
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American Northern
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Voice gender and ages
Female adult
Female young adult
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E-learning
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Voice Styles
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Workplace conflict happens, but peaceful resolutions are possible. This authoritative woman understands her employee's frustrations, respects their dignity and offers practical suggestions in a warm, deep, compassionate voice.