I WORK IN THE VOICE OVER INDUSTRY AS A(N)
Voice Actor
HERE'S A LITTLE ABOUT ME AND MY VOICE OVER EXPERIENCE
Craig primarily works a performer for live events and film/TV projects and as an acting/singing coach, but has slowly been booking VO work on the side since his first voice gig in 1998. He also is the founder of an "edutainment" reading program for children that helps teach the craft of storytelling and how to create character voices (website forthcoming).
Craig has taken VO training workshops and classes with Bob Bergen (2x), Bill Holmes, James Alburger, Penny Abshire, Richard Horvitz, Scott Hilley, MaryLynn Wissner, September Day/Bob Carter, Susan Berkley, Tony Gonzales and mentoring/coaching from Pat Fraley.
Since 1999, Craig has been publishing Voice Actors in the News, an entertainment blog for voice actor fans and professionals.
Craig also hosts the Viva VO Atlanta! group here on VoiceoverUniverse, and The Voice Actor Appreciation Society on Yahoo Groups and Facebook.
RECENTLY BOOKED PROJECTS
- "The Golden Age of Radio Show": Principal/Supporting Characters - Expressions Theatre, dir. Scott Hilley.
- "Gold Mine" web game: Lead (Crazy Old Miner)
- "Wild Wild Wins" web game: Lead (Cowboy)
- "Pumpk, Cham & Pai" (animated pilot for Spark-Flow Studios): Principal (Cham).
- Series of celebrity impersonations for RUDEGPS.com.
- Radio Announcer and ADR/looping for indie comedy feature film, "Dixie Times".
LANGUAGES
English, Pig Latin.
VOICE DESCRIPTION
Guy Next Door-quality with sincere, genuine, high-energy, animated, comedic, and entertaining reads. Expansive repertoire of 100+ character voices, celebrity impressions, vocal SFX, and many U.S. regional and international dialects. Also solid narration skills.
DIALECTS, Character voices and vocal impressions
Specialize in US Southern dialects: Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee.
Other regional US dialects: New Yorker, Bostonian, Chicago, North Dakotan, Minnesotan, Southern Californian, etc.
International accents and dialects: English (British, Liverpoolean, Cockney), Scottish English, Irish English, Canadian English, Ukrainian, Swedish, Russian, Hispanic (Mexico), and et cetera.
Craig is constantly challenging himself vocally--studying accents and dialects as a hobby in order to incorporate them into his repertoire.
Craig has had recent auditions for Afrikaans, Russian, and "stuffy British" dialects.
VOICES I AM ABLE TO PERFORM
Senior Male, Senior Female, Middle Age Male, Young Adult Male, Teenage Boy, Teenage Girl, Child Male, Child Female, Baby
AUDIO DELIVERY METHOD
MP3
EQUIPMENT
Nothing that would impress anyone here, unless you consider a paper megaphone and a Fisher Price tape recorder "impressive."
Comments
I'm totally up for an Atlanta seminar - LOVE IT THERE - I used to go there for business quite often when I worked in the music biz - GREAT town, super people - for SURE - let's set it up! Email me at my regular email addy
braintracksaudio@yahoo.com
and start rounding up 12 people who wanna have their approach ROCKED
and re-calibrated to hit it from Buyer Needs and we'll do it!
Cheers
~Miles
Thanks for promoting my book, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is. Currently, I only have 2 editions. Do you have the Red one or the Yellow one?
-Elaine
I trust the Voiceover Universe experience has been good for you! You've obviously been very busy with it!!!
Also, I hope you'll check out and join a new group that we just started called MARKETING FOR FUN AND PROFIT. It's a group dedicated to discussing ways we can market ourselves - what works; what doesn't. With your experience, you would be a tremendous resource! The link is: www.voiceoveruniverse.com/group/marketingforfunandprofit
Thanks for your time! I trust our paths will cross soon!
Best to ya!
dan (daniel eduardo) hurst
Yup, thas me! As to hiring you for the project, I will keep the possibility in mind IF and WHEN the project gets a go
ahead from the interested company. Right now we are in the Demo stage.
In the meantime, all the voices will have to be stationed in LA...and most of them
will be offered to the actors who created the roles.
IF they are not interested, then I will look for sound alikes.
I will let you know then.
Keep in touch.
Mike
404-350-4145