Voice Talent

Melanie's Website

No Jive. This Voice is Alive!

Melanie has been a professional female voice talent and actress for 25 years. She is a seasoned, skilled actress and voice talent - A veteran of film, television, and theatre who brings acting talents, versatility, intelligence, and a great voice to every session - truly a voice actor. She has voiced thousands of radio and television commercials, corporate narrations, tutorials, on-hold and voice mail messages. Her vocal styles include: professional and authoritative, warm and caring, bright and upbeat, quirky and fun, sensual and sexy. Character voices and dialects are also in her repertoire.

Some of her national clients include: Microsoft, Colgate-Palmolive, Ford, Coca Cola, Wilson Foods, Exxon, Xerox, Texaco, Minute Maid, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Kirby Paint, Neiman Marcus, Conoco, Compaq, United Way, BMC Software, NASA, GM, Halliburton, Baylor College of Medicine, Rockwell International, Weather King, and more. It all started when, at age two, she began performing by reciting nursery rhymes while standing on the kitchen table. "It's in my blood. The only profession I ever really wanted. I feel fortunate to have been a working professional actress and voice over performer for all these years." During her school years, she performed every chance she got. She was a cheerleader, a twirler, on the debate team, participated in drama, band, choir, etc. She also played the piano and organ for several churches and organizations.

After receiving a bachelor's degree and teaching certificate in Theatre and English in Houston, she pursued a dancing career for several years with the Houston Jazz Ballet Company under the direction of Patsy Swayze (yes, mom of Patrick Swayze).  After that, she decided it was time to get an agent and pursue her first love - acting.  Having been blessed with a good voice in addition to acting ability, she decided to look into voiceover work to multiply her chances of keeping busy and avoiding having to get a "real job."  As it turned out, there were many more professional voice over jobs than on camera acting jobs available in Houston, and so voice work became her bread and butter.  The market was booming in the early 80's, keeping her busy with radio and television commercial voice over work as well as voice on camera commercials, industrial Films, theatre, and feature film. She also became a member of Actor’s Equity and AFTRA/SAG serving on the board of AFTRA/SAG for 15 years and as the President of the Houston Local for two terms.

In addition to professional voice over and acting assignments, she’s taught many professional voice over classes and workshops. Teaching has always been a very personally rewarding experience for her, although these days, her busy schedule rarely permits her time to teach.

Recording Studio

Since establishing her own studio in 2002, literally, a whole new world of clients has welcomed her. Every day, she records and uploads audio files to clients around the globe with a same day or next day turnaround. "For years I have worked exclusively in high quality recording studios here in Houston and around the state. Now, I also have my own state-of-the-art digital recording facility which I have been continuously upgrading. I enjoy engineering and editing my own recording sessions and have gained an even deeper respect for the other audio engineers I work with! (especially for those guys who used to cut and splice yards and yards of magnetic tape!)"

With the advent of high-speed internet connections, she began listing her services with online voice-talent websites. Because of these online listings and high-speed internet connections, her client base has widened even further creating many new and diverse business relationships and friends. Scripts and the finished recorded audio files can be sent electronically via the internet either attached to an email or uploaded to an ftp site. Turn around is usually within 24 hours – often the same day.

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