BIOGRAPHY
I am a voiceover professional with 5 years of experience in the field, and have voiced 74 audiobooks to date, from a wide variety of genres. I provide voice talent to narrate everything that comes into the booth with accomplishment, including fiction and non-fiction for children, teens and adults, children's books including spontaneously generated picture descriptions for blind and low vision readers, poetry, comic topics and serious subjects, cookbooks, and even a full doctoral thesis!
PROFILE GALLERY
DEMO REELS
Children - Alice
Fantasy - Gaiman
Non-fiction/Factual - A triumph of genius
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Email: christina.cie@gmail.com Business number: +64 21 534 992 Mobile number: +64 21 534 992 |
Gender: Female Location: New Zealand Description of voice: My natural voice is mid-tone, smooth and polished The sound is bright, clear, and suggests quality, intelligence and credibility, able to tilt from authoritative to warm and intimate. Sounding Age(s): 11 - 16, 17 - 20, 21 - 30, 31 - 40, 41 - 50, 51 - 60, 61 - 70 Languages: English (International), English (Neutral), English (UK), English (USA) Accents: Any English accent eg Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, Estuary, Cockney, RP, West Country, Sussex, Kent, Norfolk, Birmingham; Welsh (generic); Scottish (generic); Irish (generic) Expertise: Audiobook, Explainer, Narration |
AGENT(S)
CREDITS
| Year | Project | Project Contact | Role | Company | Details |
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| 2022 | Orbit Health | Confidential | Narrator/ voice artist | Confidential |
| Year | Project | Project Contact | Role | Company | Details |
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| 2022 | Adult Fiction | Simon Lynch | Narrator/ voice artist | BLVNZ | Before you knew my name by Jacqueline Bublitz, Five Red Herrings, & The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers, A Column of Fire by Kenneth Follet, Hunting Game by Helene Tursten, Never what it Seems, & What Goes Around, by Wayne Andrewartha, Desiree by Annemarie Selinko, Scarlet and Magenta by Lindsay Dawson, Heartland by Jenny Pattrick, Victory Park by Rachel Kerr. |
| 2021 | Adult Non-fiction & Poetry | Simon Lynch | Narrator/ voice artist | BLVNZ | A Richer You by Mary Holm, The Book of Overthinking by Gwendoline Smith, Puppy Zen by Mark Vette, Past Caring? Ed. by Barbara Brookes, Jane McCabe & Angela Wanhalla, 366 Days with Wisdom by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, The Bulford Kiwi by Colleen Brown,The Final Choice: End of Life by Caralise Trayes, Ingenious by Peter Gluckmand, Women’s Wellness Wisdom by Dr Libby Weaver, Supergood cookbook by Chelsea Winter, Going Bush by Kirsty Gunn, One Minute Crying Time by Barbara Ewing, The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn Poetry: How I get ready by Ashleigh Young, Then Winter by Chloe Honum, The Truth Garden by Emma Neale. |
| 2020 | Young Adult & Children’s fiction | Simon Lynch / Joe Gilfilian | Narrator/ voice artist | BLVNZ | La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman, The Fork, the Witch and the Worm by Christopher Paolini, The Dragon Defenders, & The Pit Bull Returns, & An Unfamiliar Place by James Russell, It's a Small World by Emma Uren, Rafferty Ferret Ratbag, & Ransomwood by Sherryl Jordan. Children's fiction: Billionaire Boy by David Walliams, Fairy Treasure, & Fairy Dust by Gwyneth Rees, The Famous Five & the Stately Homes Gang by Claude Voilier, Five run away together by Enid Blyton, Oceana's Kitty Catastrophe, & Whizz's Internet Oopsie by Sally Sutton, Slime by David Walliams, Story's End by Marissa Burt, The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke |
| Year | Project | Voiceover Category | Company | Details |
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| 2021 | Confidential | Commercial | Hula | |
| 2018 | Toyota Drive Happy Case Study | Corporate | Toyota |
SKILLS
| Acting | As well as narrating, it's that moment when the studio, the mic, everything falls away, even time, apart from the text. And you as its voice. I love that. |
| Performance | As above - you don't want to hear me performing your text. You want your text to sound like it's speaking directly to the listener. Performing as a voice artist means making myself disappear - otherwise there are 2 voices talking, and that gets confusing. |
| Accents | I've got an ear for them, maybe through travelling about so much as a child. But, like before, I don't speak 'with' an accent. If an accent is called for, it has to because it is in the voice of the text. It's not easy, but it makes all the difference. |
| Language | Maybe an odd thing to note as a skill, but I think it's crucial. I love language - the etymology, the sound, pacing, intonation. That let's me deliver different interpretations every time, if that's what you want. It's the difference between reading a text out loud, and giving it a voice. |
On-site Recording Studio
| Software: | Adobe Audition, Audacity |
| Video Sync Available: | No |
| Remote connectivity: | Skype, Source Connect, Zoom |
| Microphones: | iRig Mic HD2 |
| Studio demo sample |
TRAINING
| BLVNZ | Reading novels, non-fiction, picture books, anything that comes into the booth for any age range or interest group every week for 6-15 hours for almost five years. And I learn something new every time! |
| Voiceover training with Gravy for the Brain | Working my way through their tutorials, attending webinars to fill in the gaps that I know I have, and increasing my knowledge with bits that I didn't know I was missing. |