Television: "What were you thinking?" Medicare ads (2011) for Manatt Media; Angel Tree holiday campaign for prison Outreach Ministry and Familynet cable network.
Web: "To Share Hopes" video for Bend the Arc, Flu Mist ad
Corporate video and training narrations: Abbott Laboratories, Proctor & Gamble, Merck & Co., Stihl Tools, Kaiser Permanente.
Radio ads: "We're All In" radio spot for WEDC, "Donor Plus" for Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Mercer Health Home Care, Cheyenne Vision Clinic, Pediatric Center of Round Rock TX, Gentemann Manor III senior living development for JES Holdings, Brightview Baldwin Park, Austin Care at Home, Cotton Real Estate.
Character voices for the computer games Visage and In Plain Sight, as well as several projects from Domini Games.
Mrs. (Santa) Claus character voice for RH Brands Solow phone promotion
Central Nebraska Department of Tourism: voice for web video
Audiobooks: Glen Echo by Katherine McArthur, Yorick by Vlad Vaslyn, Vain Pursuits by J.B. Harker, An Unusual Childhood by Harlene Jesse Reeves, numerous children's books for MeeGenius
Old-time radio performances, Elgin, IL
I am based in Chicago and can quickly reach any studio in the Chicago-Milwaukee-Indianapolis region.
My home studio includes Source Connect Standard with an strong ethernet connection. I record with a Mojave MA 200 tube condenser microphone, an Avalon M5 preamp, a Scarlett 18i8 audio interface and Adobe Audition recording and editing software. Home-audio expert Dan Lenard helped me fine-tune my audio setup and the acoustics in my recording space.
I have been trained in voice-over techniques by Jeff Lupetin at The Acting Studio in Chicago, and Sherri Berger. I also have been coached by Gabrielle Nistico at VoiceHunter and Elaine Clark of VoiceOne (commercials), Anne Ganguzza (medical narration) Kevin Delaney (promos), Adam Verner (audiobooks) and Pat Fraley (gaming). I have also attended voice-over workshops at the Voice 2010 and Voice 2012 conferences in Los Angeles and Voiceover Atlanta in 2014.
I studied audio recording through Harper College in Palatine, IL with recording engineer John Towner.
I am represented by Lori Lins Ltd. in Chicago and Milwaukee.
Before entering the voice-over world, I worked for 28 years as a copy editor and photo editor at a large Chicago newspaper. I also did some website editing there.
I have been a long-time member, section leader and board member for the Chicago Master Singers, a large classical chorus.
I have a Bachelor of Science degree in news-editorial journalism from Northern Illinois University, with a minor in Spanish.