BIOGRAPHY
I come from a professional acting background, with lead role experience in film, TV and theatre. My voice credits including recording audiobooks for Audible and AudioGo Ltd ( the former home of BBC audio). I have often recorded with thestoryplayer.com; I’ve voiced animations with CBBC online, recorded corporate videos, e-learning projects, educational video and documentary narration. I work in both my natural RP voice, character voices and educated Australian, (where I lived for 24 years).
PROFILE GALLERY
DEMO REELS
Lisa_Armytage-corporate.MP3
Lisa_Armytage-audiobook
Lisa_Armytage-Non-fiction
Lisa_Armytage-commercial
Lisa_Armytage-Australian
Lisa_Armytage-Characters
| CONTACT DETAILS | VOICE PROFILE |
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Email: spokenbylisa@gmail.com Business number: +44 7969408401 Mobile number: Website: http://www.spokenbylisa.co.uk |
Gender: Female Location: Sheffield Description of voice: I have a warm, mature voice with a wide imaginative range. I am equally comfortable voicing characters for fiction, and challenging material for educational purposes. Sounding Age(s): 41 - 50, 51 - 60, 61 - 70 Languages: English (Australian), English (UK) Accents: RP. Somerset. Educated Australian. Expertise: Commercial, Corporate, Narration |
CREDITS
| Year | Project | Project Contact | Role | Company | Details |
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| 2011 | Silly Old Birds- 5 character voices for animation | Jeremy Fries | Mother Birds | The Independent Animator | 5 mother bird voices - using different characters and accents |
| 2009 | Alleyk@tz (CBBC online) | Cathy Collis | Rock Star Lorna Lovett, teenage fans Zoe and Lucy, & store manageress | Illumina Digital | For CBBC online. |
| Year | Project | Project Contact | Role | Company | Details |
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| 2014 | Customer Simulation- E-learning | Tom Windsor | Banking advisor and customers | Nice Media |
| Year | Project | Project Contact | Role | Company | Details |
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| 1983 | No Place for a Nervous Lady | Unknown | A range of English Governesses | ABC Radio Drama, Melbourne | |
| 1982 | Minna Von Barnhelm | Unknown | Minna - female lead | ABC Radio Drama, Melbourne | |
| 1981 | Footmarks in the Sand | Unknown | Stella - female lead | ABC Radio Drama, Melbourne |
| Year | Project | Voiceover Category | Company | Details |
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| 2018 | You and Me, by Susan Greenfield | Audiobook | Storytec Ltd, published by Audible | |
| 2017 | Peacock Girl | Narration | The Story Player | Short Story narration - online |
| 2015 | The Canary- ( short story- online) | Narration | The Story Player | Click here to view://www.thestoryplayer.com/listen-to-the-canary-by-katherine-mansfield/ |
| 2013 | What Goes Around (short story – online) | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2013 | Da Vinci’s Last Commission (by Fiona McLaren) | Audiobook | AudioGo Ltd | Narrator |
| 2012 | Into That Forest (by Louis Nowra) | Audiobook | AudioGo Ltd | |
| 2012 | Singing for the Terrified (short story- online) | Audiobook | Short Story Radio | Narrator |
| 2011 | BP Graduate Interview Skills- e-learning | E-Learning | Kineo, Brighton | Role of Australian Manager |
| 2011 | “Solutions FM”- e-learning | E-Learning | Kineo, Brighton | online e-learning project |
| 2011 | Mental Striptease (short story – online) | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2011 | The Shopping List (shortstory – online) | Audiobook | Short Story Radio | |
| 2011 | The Snowflake (shortstory – online) | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2010 | A number of Listener’s letters for iPM | Dramatic Work | BBC Radio 4 | |
| 2009 | McLeod’s Daughters (TV promo) | Promo | Sparrowhawk International | TV promo for Australian TV series |
| 2009 | The Timeless Trees (short story – online) | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2009 | A Slice of Life (shortstory – online) | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2009 | Metamorphosis (shortstory – online) | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2009 | The Contingency (shortstory – online) | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2008 | The Gull (shortstory – online) | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2008 | Blue Crepe Paper | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2008 | A Friend in Need | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2008 | Becoming Whole Again | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2007 | Abandoned | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 2006 | Bliss (by Katherine Mansfield) | Narration | Short Story Radio | |
| 1998 | Laying Hands on a City | Documentary | SBS Television, Sydney | TV documentary |
| 1995 | Educational projects incl video narration, animation, & children’s short stories. | E-Learning | Classroom Video, Sydney | From 1995 - 2003 |
SKILLS
| Acting | After training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, I worked in both the UK and Australia as an actor in theatre, TV and film. Theatre credits include: Hay Fever (Bath Theatre Royal - Australia tour), Summer Day’s Dream (Finborough Theatre), No Expense Spared (Jermyn St Theatre), Plague Over England (Duchess Theatre), The Outside and Chains of Dew (Orange Tree Theatre), The Sutton Hoo Mob (touring with Eastern Angles Theatre Company) and The Provok’d Wife (Bristol Old Vic); and in Australian theatre: Coralie Lansdowne Says No (Playbox, Melbourne), and A Cuckoo in the Nest (M.T.C.) . Australian TV includes: Neighbours (series regular: Dr Beverly Marshall), The Lancaster-Miller Affair, The Miraculous Mellops, All Saints, Police Rescue 2, A Country Practice, The Flying Doctors, Prisoner, Cop Shop. Australian film includes: Cool Change (female lead). Australian radio drama includes No Place for a Nervous Lady, Footmarks in the Sand and Minna Von Barnhelm (ABC ) Book recordings in the UK include Da Vinci’s Last Commission and Into That Forest (AudioGo Ltd), and You and Me - for Audible. |
Lisa's Home Studio
| Software: | Logic Pro, Twisted Wave |
| Video Sync Available: | No |
| Remote connectivity: | Bodalgocall, ISDN, Source Connect, Zoom |
| Microphones: | Rode NT1_A |
| Studio demo sample |
TRAINING
| Associate of The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (Professional Acting Course) | I had a classical, (theatre-based) training as an actor from 1973-1977. Classes included the history of theatre, practical voice, movement and dance, radio drama, and rehearsals for the main programme of theatre performance. |
| The National Youth Theatre | I was a member of the National Youth Theatre (London) for a season before training at drama school. The company devised and performed The Petticoat Rebellion, with a season at The Shaw Theatre, London. |
| Voiceover training with independent tutors and Gravy for the Brain. | I attend regular general voice classes with Nic Redman, which have included character voice skills, vocal warm-ups and sight reading. Technical training (Logic Pro X) has included 1:1 tuition with Matt Howden, and Roland Gurney. MacProVideo.com (Logic Pro X - recording and editing). Tuition through The Voice Over Network has included 1:1 tuition with Roger Woods on the use of iPDTL and Source Connect. Tuition through Gravy for the Brain has included webinars on Twisted Wave, recording and editing. |