Audiobook Narrator, Voiceover Artist, Actor
My speech colleague Jen Innes and I partnered to create an accent workshop exploring the shared attributes of Australian and Southern drawls. We had a fantastic time teaching these two accents to students at the lovely ZACH theatre in Austin.
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My family took a trip to Costa Rica, and the experience was wonderful. Hikes through rainforests, waterfalls, volcanoes, rope swings, hanging out inside trees, cassado, imperial beer, and centenario. What a culturally rich, welcoming, and beautiful country.
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After two months of labor, expert advice from sound engineers, misleading advice from YouTube, a few commandeered power tools, and essential help and encouragement from family and friends, the booth is built! This soundproof isolation booth was constructed for voiceover work and recording vocals, harmonica, and guitar. I am so happy with the results. The room sounds great and projects have started to arrive. Just in time.
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Seattle made for the perfect setting of this year’s VASTA/PAVA joint conference. Reconnecting with old friends and meeting new friends from the Pan-American Vocology Association brought a brilliant light to my speech work. Straw phonation, vowel yoga, Linklater improv work, Miller Voice Method triggers, Rena Cook and Hilary Blair’s workshop on coaching corporate clients, and several mini presentations on groundbreaking work in accent acquisition and generative change inspired several great additions to my current approach to speech. Looking forward to next year’s conference!
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The great Texas musician, Wake Eastman, has just released his latest album Crazy Moon. I play harmonica on a number of tracks and am humbled to appear with such amazing musicians including Kurt Baumer on fiddle, Chris Reeves on lead guitar and Walter Cross on drums. You can get it here.
Comments closedMy demo produced by VOCL (Zach Hanks and Jaimie Johnson)
After an eight-week intensive with Zach Hanks and Jaimie Johnson, my voiceover skills have reached a new height. Exhaustive recitation and breakdown of commercial copy, effective post-production workflow, and market-relevant branding have given me the knowledge to bring to life the message of individuals and companies in a powerful way. I feel the demo VOCL produced for me reflects this mission. Have a listen.
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Monday I joined a special corner of NYC artistic culture. I performed a short play by Michael Kingsbaker called Jeffrey vs Mr. Freeze for the Shelter’s Peep Show. My character “Mr. Freeze,” an ICE agent bent on deporting Jeffrey’s father, outwits Batman but is ultimately defeated by the real superhero, an immigration lawyer named Stacey. The play brilliantly threads fantasy and the stark contrast of reality. The Shelter self-described as “a family of artists creating original theatre for the New York stage” indeed felt like a family that I was grateful to be a part of.
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Well, the Homesick Hound Dogs finally recorded our second album, and it was worth the wait. We teamed with an incredible studio in Connecticut called Dirt Floor Recording headed by music great Eric Lichter. I think we got something special on tape. You can find out for yourself when the album is released this Fall.
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Playing South by Southwest in Austin with Helen Rose was a thrilling experience. I had an amazing time reconnecting with Helen and trading solos with my NYC bandmate, JP Henry. Austin is home for me so to have family and friends come listen made the event even more special.
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One my great joys as an actor is working with amazing playwrights on new works. This month I performed the lead role in a three-day reading of the newest work by Allan Knee, Another Rushmore. Allan is one of America’s best playwrights. His works include Little Women, The Jazz Age, The Man Who was Peter Pan (on which the movie Finding Neverland was based). Another Rushmore follows a Times Square street artist (specifically a miniaturist), Leonard, who has received a commission to create a work of public art. Leonard’s idea is to sculpt Another Rushmore. After three productions with Allan, I understand more clearly how his characters think and act. The humor and joy that are abundant in his characters comes more and more easily to me, and it a blast to play.
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