How I became a professional Voiceover Artist.

Awwwww look at that wee lassie, look at those chubby cheeks and that naturally blonde hair!!

WAIT, it’s me!! Well, I’m not so wee any more, I still have the same chubby cheeks though and the hair?… Well, it’s blonde!

So, how did I go from that wee thing to becoming a full-time Voiceover Artist?

Let me take you back in time…. a small girl with her parents, watching the musical, Cats.

💥 BOOM! 💥

She discovered the magic of theatre and she wanted to be right there up on that stage.

She joined ALL the local acting clubs, ALL the local choirs, ALL the local dance clubs (and very soon gave up on those dance classes because she had two left feet!).

She was going to be an actor, dahhhhhling!!!

So, she studied and studied and worked and worked until it was university application time. She was going to go to drama school. She auditioned and auditioned and auditioned and auditioned (phew!) and got accepted into Sir Paul McCartney’s Performing Arts School (LIPA) to study Acting. Yipppeeee! She spent three years studying voice, phonetics, Meisner, The Alexander Technique, singing, animal study, dance, improvisation – the list went on. She’d done it! She had a degree in Acting and a London Agent. She WAS an actor!

THEN, she stepped out into the real world….

Hmmm… auditions were slow, she was super nervous in the auditions she did get, and she had to spend a lot of her time working to pay the London rent. Maybe she wasn’t an actor after all… 

Then one day, a very experienced actor suggested that she look into recording voiceovers. But, she had never heard of voiceovers. What was that?? Was it a career? She decided to find out, and find out she did! She recorded a voicereel with a local studio, sent it out to clients and somehow booked her first gig on a Scotland wide radio campaign.

She was going to be a voiceover artist AND an actor, dahhhhlingggg.

So, she had a couple of voiceover jobs…. but it slowed down. Hmm …what to do? She'd researched and written and written and researched, but there was a severe gap in her knowledge. She needed to learn more about voiceovers. Enter Louisa Gummer, the kindest most knowledgeable voiceover artist a girl could know. She passed on her wisdom and answered questions (and ohhhh there were a lot of questions).

So, the little girl (not so little anymore), worked and worked, educating herself and marketing herself and marketing herself and recording and recording. Her passion for voiceovers continued to grow. She kept recording and recording and recording AND…..

Well… here I am today…. a full-time voiceover artist with a broadcast quality studio. 

Obviously, I’ve missed out a lot of steps (and a lot of rejections) in my voiceover story and mannnny names of hugely helpful people along the way. I’ll have to save that for my biography 😉

But I’m thankful. Thankful that I get to do what I do full time and for achieving my performing dream (albeit in a slightly different form).

Who knew taking a little girl to a musical would open such a can of worms (or is that a can of cats?!)