BIOGRAPHY
Aiming to engage, inform, and entertain listeners, I specialize in nonfiction narration including travel and other storytelling, E-learning, documentary, and corporate communication while also working in commercial and fiction genres. My VO style adapts to client direction, listener needs and the text to be voiced, drawing on my speech/drama and VO training along with enough radio and TV experience to know how VO generally differs from (the usually dreaded) "announcing". And as an HR manager in a past life, I understand the organizational world from both worker and management perspectives including clients' need to have a job done timely and right.
PROFILE GALLERY
DEMO REELS
Don Deane-Narration demo
Don Deane-Commercial demo
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Email: d.deane@comcast.net Business number: 1-303-440-0130 Mobile number: 1-303-842-6255 Website: https://www.dondeanevo.com/ |
Gender: Male Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA Description of voice: Mid-to-low baritone with tone quality ranging from smooth to rugged, attitude from friendly to snarky, and approach from guy-next-door to formal as the project requires. Sounding Age(s): 31 - 40, 41 - 50, 51 - 60, 61 - 70, 71 - 100 Languages: English (USA) Accents: neutral USA; southwestern USA; also a bit of Yiddish and Russian Expertise: Commercial, Corporate, Narration |
CREDITS
SKILLS
| Narration | Skills developed and demonstrated through weekly recording of travel and other stories for visually impaired listeners through Audio Information Network of Colorado (AINC; www.aincolorado.org). |
| Audio engineering | I do my own audio engineering using my professional-quality home audio studio which includes the Audacity digital audio workstation (DAW), Focusrite interface, Rode microphone, and Producers' Choice blankets for acoustical treatment. I use Izotope Rx and Audacity effects for editing and mastering. |
| Character representation | I've voiced audiobooks with widely varying characters: -- Zane Grey's novel "To the Last Man", which includes many male and female characters with American southwestern and other accents. -- Three sermons by 19th century English preacher JC Ryle. Characterization skills training has been from the DCPA, TVAS, and Johnny Heller. |
| Radio/TV announcing | -- Hosted a jazz show for 10 years on community radio station KGNU-FM in Boulder, Colorado. -- Served as the intro announcer in 2005-07 for "The Boulder Show" on the Boulder, Colorado municipal TV station. |
Don's studio
| Software: | Audacity |
| Video Sync Available: | No |
| Remote connectivity: | Skype, Zoom |
| Microphones: | Rode NT-1, |
| Studio demo sample |
TRAINING
| Classes at Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA, 2015-16) | Commercial VO, Introduction to Acting, Introduction to Improv, Audio Book Narration, Character VO |
| Personal coaching with Terry Daniel of Universal Voice Talent (UVT, 2017-18) | Commercial and narration VO technique, culminating in recording of commercial and narration demos. |
| Classes at The Voice Actors Studio (TVAS), Las Vegas (2020-22) | Documentary Narration, Audiobook Performance, Character VO, Telephony, Medical Narration, E-learning and Explainer Narration, Political VO |
| Commercial VO training and coaching with Marc Cashman (Cashman Commercials, 2021-22) | Group and individual coaching |