‘Word of Mouth’
The ‘No Booking Fee’ Voice Talent Agency
Talent List
“Word of Mouth” Talent List Contents
‘Contents’
About us 03
Contacts 04
Talent List 05
Male Voices 06
Female Voices 1 8
Kids Voices 26
“Word of Mouth” Talent List About us
‘About us’
“ Word of Mouth” represents over 70 professional
voice talent artists from various backgrounds;
including film, television and theatre actors, radio
personalities and comedians, amongst others.”
Established in 1996, “Word of Mouth” is New Zealand’s longest running voice talent agency
and has become one of the country’s largest and most respected agencies.
WoM clients include virtually any company or individual, either New Zealand or Internationally
based, who require the most professional voice for their production. Be it a narrator for a
TV documentary, a voiceover for commercials, dialogue replacement in a film, character
voices for animation or telephone voice messaging... the roles are many and varied and
WoM can cast and provide the right talent.
WoM works under the same roof as the digital recording studio, Auckland Audio and if
required, this enables the convenience of WoM to produce and record our clients’ script.
Visit http://www.aucklandaudio.co.nz/
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“Word of Mouth” Talent List Contacts
‘Contacts’
0800 VOICES
‘Word of Mouth’ ‘No Booking Fee’
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“Word of Mouth” Talent List Talent List
‘Talent List’
Male Voices Female Voices Keenan
Tom Agee Shaun Harvey Tania Anderson Paula
Fasitua Amosa Alex James Alison Audrey-Leonard Gabriella Larkin
Millen Baird Andrew Laing Minnie Baragwanath Stephanie Liebert
John Ballard Michael Lamb Sian Bennett Katherine McRae
Paul Barrett John McKee Jaquie Brown Jenny Marcroft
Dan Bernstone Marc-Andre Monten Alison Bruce Jacqueline Nairn
Mike Binis Stephane Monten Truda Chadwick Lorna Plant
Dominic Bowden Michael Keir-Morrissey Suzanne Chamberlain Diane Ponzio
Tom Bradley Doug Muir Jackie Clarke Emma Prowse
Nik Brown John O’Leary Julie Crean Francesca Rudkin
David Burke-Kennedy Stephen Oliver Jacqui Dunn Marissa Stott
John Callen Kirk Page Chloe Franklin-Browne Mary-Jane Tomasi
Brad Carter Mark Perry Anna Henare Jacque Tucker
Barrie Crichton Charles Pierard Jane Jennings Sherry Wagner
Andrew Clay Jim Pinckney Samantha Jukes Lucy Wigmore
Nick Dwyer Richard Simpson
Paul Ego Danik Sygrove
Kids Voices
Peter Ford Brendan Telfer
Simon Franks Warren Thomas
John Freeman David Weatherley
Joe Gilfillan
Matt Gunn
Darren White
Mark Williams
Girls Boys
Mark Hadlow Eryn Wilson Yana Colquhoun Xavier Garneau-Roughan
Mike Hall Elliot Yule Eden Swanson Gabriel Sutton
Jaime Swanson
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‘Male Voices’
‘Tom Agee’
Tom Agee, American voice-over, has worked on both sides of the microphone during
a long career in advertising both in the U.S. and here in New Zealand. Having been a
writer, producer himself, earlier in his career, Tom, is able to deliver the goods quickly
and effectively, whether it’s a character voice like Fred Flintsone, a youthful, punchy
delivery for Burger King, or an old Southern hillbilly for Jack Daniels. Just tell him
“how old” and “what part of the States” and he gives it to you. A university lecturer in
Marketing and Advertising, he established New Zealand’s first degrees in Advertising
at AUT and often works for clients whom he once taught - a real buzz for Tom. Last
year he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.
‘Fasitua Amosa’
Since graduating from the Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts in 00,
Fasitua’s acting career has taken off. He has performed in a number of different
theatre productions including ‘Play .0’ for the Auckland Theatre Company (dir:
Oliver Driver), ‘The Songmakers Chair’ (dir: Nathaniel Lees) for the AK0 Festival and
‘Disgrace’ (dir: Paul Gittens). He made his television debut playing Matthew in and
narrating TV’s hit new drama serial “The Insiders Guide to Happiness”. Alongside
his acting Fasitua is enjoying success working as a voice talent with Word of Mouth.
‘Millen Baird’
In 1999 Millen graduated from Unitec School of Performing and Screen Arts with a
degree in Acting. This background has put him in good stead for work as a voiceover
artist, with his natural flair for character voices, a forte being the ‘good-on-ya-mate-
kiwi-bloke’.
Millen has voiced many TV and Radio commercials from Vodafone and Kelloggs,
through to Rebel Sports and FAI Finance.
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‘John Ballard’
After formal training in Classical Music & Opera at the Eastman School of Music in
Rochester New York, then moving to Europe to sing professionally as a freelance
concertising musician, John moved into a career as a presenter & producer for
classical music radio stations back in New York. Since arriving in New Zealand in
1997 John has been involved with Radio New Zealand working as a presenter on
Concert FM and is frequently heard broadcasting live concerts from the Town Hall.
Since John joined Word of Mouth as an American voice over artist he has enjoyed
many successful voice roles, from radio & television commercials for Smirnoff Ice, Les
Mills and Air New Zealand through to Corporate Videos for Super Yacht & Omnicrom
Productions. In his spare time, John owns Maxima Artist Management Ltd, which
manages the careers of classical musicians throughout the Pacific Rim.
‘Paul Barrett’
Paul is one of the countries busiest and most admired actors. His career began on
stage in 1980 and he has subsequently performed throughout New Zealand in over
80 productions. His film work includes the recently completed ‘Ike – Thunder in
June’ (with Tom Selleck) and Geoff Murphy’s ‘Spooked’ and his television experience
includes shows such as Shortland Street, McPhail and Gadsby, and the Emmy-
nominated ‘Being Eve’. Paul’s voice over career began in 199 while he was resident
at the Court Theatre in Christchurch. Since then he has worked all over the country
and recorded over 1000 voice –overs for television and radio commercials, TVNZ
documentaries and narration for Talking Books at the Blind Foundation.
‘Dan Bernstone’
Dan can be heard on nationwide breakfast radio presenting ‘Newsbeat’ with the ZM
morning crew as well as voicing promotional material for TVNZ. He also coaches up
and coming voice and radio talent at the New Zealand Radio Training School.
Recently heard on ads for KFC, Fuji, Pascoes, M, and Avanti, to name just a few -
aswell as numerous narrative roles.
Have a listen!
‘Mike Binis’
Born in Buffalo, New York on the Canadian border, Mike has a much ‘milder’ yank
accent (of the “generic North American Network News” sound...). He did Radio and
infomercials for both the US and Canadian markets.
A kiwi since 1988, Mike has enjoyed stints on Shortland Street and reporting news
on Triangle TV at Sky between voice over work for brands such as Zeacom, Jack
Daniels, Memphis Meltdown and Fisher & Paykel.
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‘Dominic Bowden’
Please refer to agency for Dominic Bowden’s details.
‘Tom Bradley’
Here is the news. Tom Bradley’s back on the voice scene. In the late 70s, Tom was
one of NZ’s busiest voices. Corporate videos, radio and TV commercials. But then,
this one-time pirate disk jockey’s voice began to saturate the ad breaks on his TV
news shows and TV bosses got nervous. (What’s new?) Tom had to choose between
his freelance voice career and TV news. Tom went with the box and graced our
screens for over decades. But now his authoritative voice with its instant credibility
is available again. And that’s all good news.
‘Nik Brown’
From Monday to Friday Nik Brown currently hosts Radio Hauraki’s Drive show.
Between this Nik spends his time working as a voice over artist on campaigns for The
Warehouse, Retravision and V8 Supercars to name but a few. Perhaps however, Nik’s
voice is best recognised as the mighty Ground Announcer at the Auckland Vodafone
Warrior matches.
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‘David Burke-Kennedy’
David Burke-Kennedy is an award-winning broadcaster with over 0 years experience
as a newsreader, presenter and voice over artist. His experience in voice work ranges
from documentaries, through to television and radio commercials and training videos.
A good choice for a “friendly” but authoritative delivery ie corporate, institutional,
tourism etc.
‘John Callen’
John Callen has been a voiceover artist for more than 5 years. He has performed
in hundreds of radio plays and narrated more than 10 documentaries as well as a
variety of commercial work, straight and character, for New Zealand and around the
world. A true professional and a pleasure to work with.
‘Brad Carter’
Hi there, I’m Brad and I have spent the last six years of my life playing guitar and
singing in the rock band “Steriogram”. We are currently home (in NZ) and plan to stay
for some time, to write and record our second album, a nice change after spending
the last three years sitting in airports all over the globe. I also produce music and
am involved in helping young, up and coming bands/artists to get out there and kick
arse. I have been doing commercial voice work since 1999 mostly singing vocals, but
lately have moved into regular voiceover work which has added another enjoyable
string to my bow.
‘Barrie Crichton’
Winner of many industry awards including the Blind Foundation’s Narrator of the
Year, and a veteran radio and television voiceover specialist, Barrie has a reputation
for warm, believable delivery and for working quickly and efficiently as part of the
audio production team. His style is instantly recognisable and totally credible and he
believes there are still plenty of challenges ahead. Currently the corporate voice for
Bunnings and Metlifecare
‘Andrew Clay’
For the past 15 years Andrew has worked primarily as a stand up comedian, performing
all over the English speaking world. This experience has helped him achieve success
as a voice artist, particularly in character roles, making him the perfect “voice artist”
if you like your scripts to be “played with”. From a child he’s enjoyed playing with
accents and making up voices including years doing exactly that as a Morning
Pirate on Radio Hauraki from ‘9 to ‘98. Some of his more recent voice jobs have
included Vodafone, NZ Herald & McDonalds.
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‘Nick Dwyer’
Nick Dwyer is in his mid twenties, but he began his career in the broadcasting industry
at Auckland radio station 95bFM at the age of 1! Since those early days, he’s gone
on to host various shows on 95bFM, and currently hosts Monday Drive. He has also
been passionately involved with music television over the years beginning at Max TV
when he was 15, then onto Juice TV, then M, and currently he hosts a weekly dance/
electronic show ‘The Soundlab’ on C.
Since 1997, Nick and has expanded his talent and is enjoying great success as a
voice over artist.
‘Paul Ego’ Paul currently spends most of his time at Auckland’s More FM studios where he is
responsible for most of the amusing character voices on the Kim & Corbett Breakfast
Show each day.
He was the voice of Prime TV’s radio advertising campaign from 00-00 and has
spent the last 10 years using his voice talent as a Radio & TV personality, a Standup
Comedian, a theatre sports actor and a Commercial & Corporate voiceover artist.
In 2000, Paul was awarded winner of the Billy T Award – the comedy grant awarded by
the NZ Comedy Trust in recognition of outstanding commitment to NZ comedy.
‘Peter Ford’
I am an experienced mixed media artist whom has been happily represented by
Word of Mouth over the last ten years. As well as radio and tv advertising I’ve voiced
documentaries , non broadcast video and cd rom promotions. For several years I also
co announced/produced the “ Realenz property show” and the “ Go auto car show” on
Channel . As an actor I’ve appeared in various productions including Xena/Hurcules
, Shortland Street and Street Legal. As an improviser I’ve been involved with London
and NZ Theatresports and several corporate event companies. I do have a penchant
for comedy and a wide range of accents but am more than comfortable mobilising my
earnest self. Most recently I have been playing a supporting role as a rough diamond
New Yorker merchant navy dude in Peter Jacksons remake of King Kong.
‘Simon Franks’
I’ve been a freelance voiceover with Word Of Mouth for several years. I come from a
radio background having worked at stations in New Zealand and Australia.
I guess you could call my accent ‘mid Tasman’ and I specialise in corporate type
reads. Recent TVCs include VO5 Shampoo and the Ray Charles soundtrack album.
Narrative work includes Americas Cup Alinghi Documentaries and Air NZ flight safety
video on domestic flights.
I’m also currently the continuity announcer for TV, host of Auto TV on C and am the
station voice for Coast FM.”
Simon is often chosen for the warmth and smoothness of his voice, adding a touch
of class to any production.
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‘John Freeman’
Please refer to agency for John Freeman’s details.
‘Joe Gilfillan’
There’s just something about Joe Gilfillan’s authoritative yet soothing delivery that
stands out above the crowd.” So said the Judges who named him Best News Reader
00 at the QANTAS Media Awards. Joe is heard across New Zealand weekday
mornings presenting Global News bulletins (including sport and finance) on networks
and stations in the CanWest portfolio.
After mornings on the radio, Joe switches to television. He writes and directs
Continuity for ONE and TV. Voice over material now airing includes Paper Plus,
SkyCity radio, Country Road Décor and Finance Direct, as well as random ‘that voice
‘Matt Gunn’ Matt Gunn is a true Aussie voice firmly planted in the heart of Auckland. 15 years in
radio, copywriting, producing and announcing, and a passion for sports, has led Matt
to his present day job at Radio Sport producing the Drive Show In addition to this he
announces ‘Sport Reloaded’ daily 6-7pm, and ‘Saturday Sport Live’. Matt has also
been part of the Radio Networks Rugby League commentary team, running sideline
at all Warriors home games for the last two seasons.
‘Mark Hadlow’
With over 600 voiceovers, and countless additional dialogue and character voices to
his credit, the art of voicing commercials, films or documentaries or giving life to an
animated character still gives Mark Hadlow a great deal of pleasure, excitement and
creativity.
Being the voice of Heidi the Hippo, and Robert the Hedgehog in Peter Jackson’s
glorious puppet splatter movie, MEET THE FEEBLES, is still one of Mark’s voice
highlights, and a nomination as best actress in the New Zealand film Awards certainly
gave “Heidi” brilliant credibility. Mark’s display of voice characterization, singing,
straight reads & comedy have led to his voice being a part of a number of award
winning commercials. He is a well-established stage, screen and television actor in
New Zealand and has been acting professionally for over 5 years.
‘Mike Hall’
Mike began with Word of Mouth with virtually no experience in voice work but has
enjoyed a prolific 5 and a half years since. In that time Mike has voiced a huge
number of TV & Radio commercials from Vodafone, Sony and McDonalds to Colgate
(as a talking toothbrush), CottonSoft (as a roll of toilet paper), Xbox and Southern
Cross as well as other varied styles. His natural read also appeals to many & Mike has
enjoyed regular stints as the Narrator for various documentaries, Reality TV Shows,
Travel shows & Corporate videos – some of these include Celebrity Treasure Island,
The Zoo, House Call and Lonely Planet Intrepid Journeys.
Alongside working as a voice over artist, Mike is achieving success as a musician
playing bass in two bands - Pluto and Dimmer.
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‘Shaun Harvey’
Shaun is a young and ambitious individual with plenty of energy to ‘voice’.
He has had extensive experience with Auckland-based George FM, voicing many
commercials for radio play, for clients such as Peugeot, AA, Maggazzino, amidst
many CD/LP launches and the list goes on!
While he enjoys commercial voice-overs, Shaun & WOM plan to expand on his current
repertoire and will seek work in voice over narration for TV series and film to continue
his career and build on skills accumulated in over five years in the industry.
If your looking for a youthful yet confident and well-tuned voice, don’t look passed
this fresh new talent.
‘Alex James’
Prior to moving to Auckland, Alex was heard on London’s number one radio station,
Heart 106., and the UK’s number one station, BBC Radio to name just two. Alex
James is an English voice with 10 years experience in the industry.
An Aucklander since 00, you can hear Alex’s voice on music Radio and Television
commercials including Britney Spears, Westlife, Natasha Beddingfield and the Strokes.
It’s not just TV and Radio commercials where Alex can be heard, having voiced
educational books, promo videos and CD Roms. He can also be heard presenting
shows on radio stations including Classic Hits, Easy Listening i98. and Flava.
‘Andrew Laing’
Andrew brings many years of experience in Theatre, Film, Television, Musicals and
Advertising to his voicework - whether it be a casual and confident narration (skills
honed with Talking Books for the RNZ Foundation of the Blind) or any one of a number
of accents and voices distilled from too many years stuck in front of the ‘goggle-box’.
A multi-facetted professional for all your voiceover needs.
‘Michael Lamb’
Michael started out in voicework as a staffer at bFM, hosting regular shows on the
station and every now and then being nabbed by the engineers to voice ads. That
soon morphed into doing regular voiceovers for a wide range of clients and brands.
Work over the last 10 years has included the TVNZ series Crimebusters, numerous
corporate videos and of course dozens of TV and radio commercials for every kind of
product you can think of from mobile phones to chocolates.
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‘John McKee’
An extraordinary all-round athlete, gourmet chef and occasional underwear model,
John’s Oxford education and Rada training were just the opening gambits in an
extraordinary journey of adventure and achievement. He is known for his impeccable
personal grooming and a tendency to lie through his teeth......” Thanks John! (By the
way, he has a beautiful warm soft voice, and can do a wide range of impersonations;
oh yes, he’s great fun in the studio too!
‘Marc Andre-Monten’
Please refer to agency for Marc Andre-Monten’s details.
‘Stephane Monten’
Please refer to agency for Stephane Monten’s details.
‘Michael Keir-Morrissey’
Michael has enjoyed a long and successful career as a voiceover artist with Word of
Mouth. His success as a voice talent has been shaped by his many years experience
prior, as an actor and his ability to take direction in all manner of voiceover roles.
Michael has voiced a number of documentaries and programmes for national and
international broadcasters.
He has also voiced animated short films, numerous corporate videos and television
and radio commercials, ranging from work for St John’s and the NZ Royal Ballet,
through to NZ Listener and Ford.
‘Doug Muir’
He describes himself as a “growly old kiwi/farmer voice” but this is far from the truth.
Although Doug does a wonderful “gruff old bugger”, his skills as a voice over artist
are far more extensive than that. He has proved this for several years now, voicing
a number of TV & Radio commercial for campaigns such as Elders Finance, Toyota
HiAce, Genesis Power and Greenpeace to name a few.
‘John O’Leary’
John has had 0 plus, years experience working on, producing and voicing television
series for national channels. John spent years as the narrator for the Mitre 10
‘Changing Rooms’ series from the late 90s, he has worked on many documentaries,
and more recently John has been narrating for Location, Location. As well as regular
voice work for television and radio commercials, John is also currently the voice for
the two Sky Movie channels.
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‘Stephen Oliver’
Stephen was born and grew up in Brooklyn-west, Wellington and since then has lived
and worked all over the world as a voiceover artist, radio producer, journalist and
newsreader amongst other things.
His time spent living in Paris, Vienna, London, San Francisco, Greece, Israel (“Voice
of Peace” radio ship out of Jaffa) and more recently, (for the past 0yrs) Sydney, has
given Stephen a wonderfully rich & well rounded ‘global’ sound - a voice perfect for
documentaries (Stephen is currently the voice of Sky’s Doco Channel), programme
narrating and any form of well polished script.
He has the depth and range to perform character voiceovers and the experience
to nail fast-paced retail scripts too. A man for any voiceover job. http://people.
smartchat.net.au/~sao/
‘Kirk Page’
Kirk began his voice over career in presenting shows on Radio NZ in the mid 70’s and
has worked on commercial radio stations all over Auckland and the North Island.
Kirk has been a commercial voice for 0 years, his most recent notable jobs have
been voicing the promotional commercials for the Inaugural Big Boys Toys and
Motorcycles Exhibition. Kirk has been with Word Of Mouth for 5 successful years.
‘Mark Perry’
One of New Zealand’s top male voiceover specialists with over thirty years radio and
television broadcasting and voicing experience.
He is heard around the world on Air New Zealand’s “InFlight Classic Hits” programme,
which he voices and programmes.
Along with being the ‘brand’ voice of a number of radio networks, both locally and
internationally, Mark has also been the corporate voice of various television channels
in New Zealand.
His accent is often described as ‘mid-Tasman’, being universal enough to include
clients in Australia, the South Pacific and the United States.
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‘Charles Pierard’
Charles Pierard is a name familiar to National Radio listeners. New Zealand born
he joined Radio New Zealand as a commercial announcer in 198 and spent a year
as breakfast host on 8DN Darwin in 1988. He was Auckland producer and Saturday
presenter on National Radio between 1989 and 1996, at the same time presenting
numerous live concerts each year for Concert FM. Since 199 Charles has worked
as an actor and voice over artist on numerous TV commercials, TV series, films and
theatre productions, requiring a variety of accents, including Irish, American and
various English dialects. He’s also a favourite narrator and presenter for Auckland
Philharmonia concerts.
‘Jim Pinckney’
Jim Pinckney has been a voiceover artist in NZ ever since he arrived in Auckland
in the early 90s and established the Stinky Grooves show on 95bFM. His talented
tonsils have graced a wide scope of music & voice productions, ranging from voice
overs for Plumbing World and Heineken Thirst, through to work with many major
music and touring companies - Energizer Batteries, Nutrigrain, Playstation and Super
12 amongst others. With a flexible, resonant voice that carries aspects of both his
English upbringing and adopted homeland NZ, Jim, who is also a record label owner
and writer for Real Groove, The Listener, The Fix and other publications, is suited to
a wide variety of voicework.
‘Richard Simpson’
Hi my name is Richard. I have been doing voice overs for seven years now, virtually
full time. I get a huge amount of work using my natural voice, working with clients
on campaigns such as Xbox, Heineken, Glade, Vodafone & Subaru. However, my
strength is in interpreting others & going into character roles. From Darth Vadar to
Rastafarians, Tony Blair to a Mafioso.
I also sing in a progressive rock band and have been known to dance during bookings
in a sensual manner.
‘Danik Sygrove’
Danik has an extensive background in musical performance and has performed in
various bands both throughout New Zealand and internationally.
His experience as a singer and ‘front man’ have given him an excellent grounding for
his voice over work.
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‘Brendan Telfer’
Brendan is one of New Zealand’s most respected sports broadcasters and television
voiceovers. He attended his first Olympic Games as a commentator back in 1976
when he went to Montreal.
He is currently a radio host on the award winning station Radio Sport, as well as
being TV ONE’s netball commentator.
And for the last few years he has enjoyed commercial voiceover work with Word Of
Mouth for clients such as Playstation, ANZ Bank and State Insurance.
‘Warren Thomas’
Please refer to agency for Warren Thomas’ details.
‘David Weatherley’
David’s first voiceover commercial was “Long John Silver” for TipTop Ice-cream
recorded in 196 and still, his voice continues to grace many a television and radio
commercial. He was the original ‘Cookie Bear’ for 17 years (in suit and voice) and
his experience as a stage and screen actor his proven invaluable in his success as a
voiceover artist.
Not surprisingly David has a flair for character voices, from cartoons for animated
short films and television shows (Buzz and Poppy, The Magic Island), through to Sir
Winston Churchill and British soldiers for a World War Documentary.
After 40 years in the industry we could go on ‘ad infinitum’.
‘Darren White’
Ever since performing in school plays from the age of 7 acting has been a passion for
me. Now doing it professionally means that I have heaps of opportunities, experience
and fun - and I get paid for it! With various amateur plays, television programmes &
TV and radio commercials under my (builder’s) belt and being the ‘Builder Presenter’
on four series’ of TV’s Mitre 10 DIY Rescue - many more doors have opened (once I
fixed them!). I love voice work, making up voices, mimicking and acting the goat!! Of
late I have been playing the fool.
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‘Mark Williams’
The cocktail of Mark’s thick gravelly New York/Kiwi accent has won him job after job
for the unique sound he offers. A DJ, television and radio show host and voiceover
artist, Mark’s vocal assets have provided him with a varied and interesting career in
the music and broadcasting industry.
Voiceover work with Word Of Mouth includes countless television and radio
commercials from Sony/BMG, Warner Music and Burger Fuel, through to the NZ Navy
and Video Ezy.
‘Eryn Wilson’
Eryn graduated from ‘Toi Whakaari Drama School’ in 199 with a degree in professional
acting. Since then, he has enjoyed an extensive and varied career as an industry
professional. He continues to take pleasure in an ever-growing wealth of experience
in film, television, theatre and radio. Television credits include ‘When Strangers
appear’, ‘The Freezer’, ‘Young Hercules’, ‘The Strip’, ‘Shortland Street’ and various
TVCs for BNZ, BP Zip and Tui. Theatre credits include ‘Howie the Rookie’, ‘Little Che’,
‘The Book of Fame’ and ‘Train Spotting’ amongst others.
Eryn has performed as a voiceover on a number of radio plays for National Radio and
since coming on board with Word of Mouth, Eryn is clearly a rising talent in the world
of the Voice Artist.
‘Elliot Yule’
“Hi my name is Elliot, I’m 17 going on 18 and attend college where, among other
things, I do drama, theatre sports and video production. I work part-time in a recording
studio and love rock climbing, video games and making films. I love to sing and play
guitar. I used to be part of WOM when I was a kid, but my voice broke
…..and now I’m back!”
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‘Female Voices’
‘Tania Anderson’
Tania has been an actor since 1989 and began doing voiceovers in about 199 whilst
working as an animation producer for D Ltd. Voice-over work combines perfectly
with her other role as mother-of-two and considers herself lucky enough to work with
lots of great people on accounts such as Air New Zealand, SC Johnson, Contours,
Canteen and Vodafone (to name a few!).
‘Alison Audrey-Leonard’
Alison Audrey-Leonard is one of our more ‘flexible’ voices. If you ask her how flexible,
she’s likely to do the splits!!! (She has a BIG sense of humour) A strong, versatile
voice has found Alison reading news on Auckland Radio stations; presenting
television shows such as Good Morning and Breakfast; singing on stage and she’s
even represented New Zealand on the international stage as a Ballroom and Latin
American Champion. Her experience in dance has led to her latest venture - on the
judging panel of TV1’s new Sunday night celebrity reality show – ‘Dancing with the
Stars’. A sunny disposition means you’ll always find Alison happy in her work!
‘Minnie Baragwanath’
Minnie has worked as a voice artist for 5 years. She has worked on a wide range
of both television and radio ad campaigns including Sunday Star Times, Elizabeth
Arden, BNZ, Harvey World Travel, Cadbury and Walker & Hall. She has also worked
for 8 years as an actor for television commercials and dramas. Minnie also has a
degree in Communication Studies which led her to work for 6 years as a reporter/
presenter for a television series on disability called Inside Out. This also gave Minnie
a lot of experience in documentary style narration.
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‘Sian Bennett’
Sian got ‘heard’ at the tender age of 17 after voicing an ad at C9FM Christchurch
for an adult shop, this led her on to corporate identity work for More FM and Channel
Z Christchurch as well as various youth campaigns. Since then she has been the
Corporate Voice for Channel Z nationwide, a regular music reporter for past radio
shows Rampage Radio and The Voice. Sian is a very diverse voice artist who can read
almost any style, and cater for many different target markets.
As well as being the current voice of Farmers, Sian is also a music contributor for
Radio NZ’s ‘The Mix’ and also enjoys doing weekly radio shows for Auckland based
Fleet FM and Base FM.
‘Jaquie Brown’
I am Jaquie Brown, I moved to NZ from the UK when I was 15, which is why I have
an interesting twang and say bedrum instead of bedroom. Don’t let that put you off
though. I can do many things with my voice. From excited teen, to disapproving
mother and everything in-between. I have been the voice of Woman’s Day, Household
Linen, Air New Zealand, Xtra, Telecom and most recently Palmolive. When I’m not
voicing ad’s I am a reporter for TV’s John Campbell show.
‘Alison Bruce’
Please refer to agency for Alison Bruce’s details.
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“Word of Mouth” Talent List Female Voices
‘Truda Chadwick’
Voice of Fuji Films, Jaguar, Rover and Anchor Milk, to name a few. Truda has a wide
range to her voice repertoire covering more than just TV & Radio commericals.
Her documentary and series work includes - ‘Gang Girls’, ‘Wahine Toa’, ‘White
Crosses’, ‘Two Fat Ladies’ and soon to air in mid-005 ‘Special Investigators’.
Truda voiced the Promax Award winning TV One News Promotion, she is the welcoming
voice heard on Air NZ flights and also has experience in IVR voice recording for
companies such as Bluestone Mortgages and Child Youth & Family.
From the refined and upperclass to the basic New Zild ‘Sheila’, to accurate & controlled
Maori & Polynesian pronunciation. Truda has a clear and concise yet warm neutral
accent. She is also nationally known as a jazz and country/blues singer.
‘Suzanne Chamberlain’
Suzanne Chamberlain is happy to be home in New Zealand after 16 years in
Australia. Her performance history ranges from acting training and modelling to TV
presenting on such shows as Changing Rooms (Australia), Air New Zealand Holiday,
Welcome to Auckland and Ford Report. Her most recent voice work includes Bio Oil
(revoicing + ADR TVC) and a core cast character voice for Voopah the Goolash, an
international animated series. Suze has a light conversational style and a penchant
for accents.
‘Jackie Clarke’
My first voiceover job was an Instant Kiwi ad recorded at least 12 years ago. Before
then I’d only ever sung in the studio.
I love the variety in studio voice work as it has allowed me to do everything from voice
prompts for government departments, to the lead voice roles in the cartoon series
Buzz and Poppy, to very fruity vocal renditions as Phoebe from Friends singing a rip-
off of the infamous Smelly Cat song and Dolly Parton singing Islands in the Stream!!
My latest venture is judging the next young round of stars on this year’s series of
NZ Idol.
‘Julie Crean’
Julie has been working within the television/broadcasting industry for many years,
and is a professional actor and voice over artist. In 00, Julie completed the
acclaimed Meisner acting technique training with tutor Michael Saccente (original
NY Playhouse graduate). These studies have supported her work as a voice artist
with her versatility, characterization and scriptwork.
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‘Jacqui Dunn’
I’ve been re-discovered so many times in my voice over career that it’s ceased to
surprise me. I have a wide range in voice ages and can do a variety of accents. I
have specialized in character work and love comedy. My favourite recent ad was as
a dottery old auntie complaining about a squeaky door....lots of fun to do (if only ads
could be 15 seconds long!)”
‘Chloe Franklin-Browne’
Chloe was raised in Hong Kong where she gained an acting diploma through the
highly regarded Guidhall School of Speech and Music. She moved home to New
Zealand and began writing, directing and performing in her own plays. After finishing
a Bachelor Degree, she got her teaching Diploma and taught English and Drama
for two years. Chloe went on to become Creative Director of Auckland based radio
station, George FM. On the side she hosted a 1pm radio show.
Chloe has sung on dance tracks for respected Auckland DJs Tim Phin, Rob Salmon
and Soane. She has performed her own blues and jazz originals in local bars such as
SPQR, Float and The Met.
Chloe now works freelance but is the George FM corporate voice. She can be heard
on all their stings and many commercials.
‘Anna Henare’
Originally from Dunedin, Anna recently returned to NZ after living in the US for the
past decade. In Seattle she earned her BFA in Theatre (emphasis in Original Works)
from Cornish College of the Arts. After graduating she worked with many talented
artists at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space Theatre, Book-It Repertory,
Angry Blvd., Consolidated Works, On the Boards and the Seattle Film Institute.
Living overseas and studying voice ,speech, the International Phonetic Alphabet
and dialects for four years has given Anna a keen ear, flexible voice and already a
variety of work with Natural History NZ and the Discovery Channel, MoreFM, and
the animators at ToonedIn.com in Seattle, to name but a few.
‘Jane Jennings’
Jane’s voice over career began in 199 in Timaru reporting & reading the daily news
for local station Radio Caroline & for Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report.
Jane then moved to television, and since 1995 she has carved out an extensive career
in voiceover & on-camera presenting working as a voice for TV networks such as One
Network News, Holmes & Horizon Pacific.
Jane’s most recent voiceover work has included tourism infomercials, documentaries
and commercials
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‘Samantha Jukes’
Samantha is a director’s dream: she’s great with straight reads and character work,
and adapts her performance very quickly according to client needs. Samantha’s
faves are screen work, voice work and comedy. She began voice artistry in 001 with
Radio 1 in Dunedin, was a core-cast member in the ground-breaking kiwi drama ‘The
Insiders Guide to Happiness’, and is currently studying the Meisner acting technique
with Michael Saccente. Check Sam out on the latest Telecom ad with the kids!
‘Paula Keenan’
Paula is a professional actress and singer for TV, film and stage, and voiceover
artist. She enjoys specialising in cartoon and children’s voices, unusual accents,
comedy and little old ladies.
She has 5 years experience in all facets of voiceover for TV, Radio and Audio
visuals. Her background is in Agency copywriting and electronic production so she
knows what is required from both sides of the studio glass.
‘Gabriella Larkin’
Gabriella has 0 years experience in a career involving acting to complement her voice
over work. She has worked on a variety of voice overs during her career, including
radio dramas with the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) in the 80’s, voicing
vocal effects for visual art at a gallery installation in Holland, she has worked as
the voice of the infamous ‘Sibyl’ through to the voice of a female “Hal” computer
in a mock “007” corporate product launch, to your standard radio & tv commercial
scripts. You can even hear Gabriella on the Ministry of Health’s interactive computer
screens. In total contrast she’s the party girl voice instructing on all the rules of the
telephone chatline PartyHouse. Her real strength lies in soft sell and narration with
scripts that her actoring experience helps greatly in the interpretation. Her radio &
tv commercial credits include South Australian Tourist Commission, Estee Lauder,
Bradfords Interiors and Archibald & Shorter LMVD
‘Stephanie Liebert’
Stephanie has a variety of voicover styles, her forte being cartoon-style character
voices, but she also enjoys using her natural voice for straight reads. Being a trained
actor and singer, Stephanie works well with music, andtakes direction easily for
all manner of scripts....she loves a challenge! She recently voice/acted 5 different
characters in an animated feature. Recent work has included Ellerslie Flower Show
‘Alice in Wonderland’, Telecom ‘Cats & Dogs’, SC Johnson & Firestone Direct.
Stephanie took out Best Actress in the 005 8hrs Film Festival for her role as a
“wizened old hag” in the winning film “A Fairy Good Tale”.
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‘Katherine McRae’
Actor and theatre director Katherine McRae has been busy with voice work since
the mid-1990s, particularly through Marmalade Audio in Wellington. In 006 her role
as Brenda on Shortland Street brought her north to Auckland. Kathy’s voice is most
often heard on Telecom’s telephone system. One of her most enjoyable jobs was
playing various characters for the animatic of Lord of the Rings and being part of their
Loop Group. Over the years she has been in plays and read short stories for Radio
NZ, voiced an audio tour for the Interislander, narrated the television series From
Here to Maternity and the documentary Children of Gallipoli as well as numerous
advertisements for radio and television.
‘Jenny Marcroft’
A mature mid to low range alto voice, Jenny is an award winning radio broadcaster
with 17 years experience specializing in newsreading, who has also spent years
as a TV newsreader/presenter.
“She has clear, good quality New Zealand speech, crisp diction, and is free of
those affectations and idiosyncracies that bedevil many a broadcaster today, to the
profound frustration and irritation of listeners.”....(Darryl Ware Talent Development
Consultant).
‘Jacqueline Nairn’
After graduating with a performing arts degree in 000, Jacquie took a deep breath,
jumped on a plane and headed for the bright lights of London where she had the time
of her life, landing her first acting role three days after arriving and continuing to act
solidly for three years in the West End and on the Fringe working with amazing people
(and does she have some stories to tell!).
Since returning to NZ, Jacquie has been acting at the Silo Theatre, soon to be seen
in the return season of the theatre hit of 00 ‘The Women’, and recently completed
her first feature film. Jacquie is an extremely versatile voice artist. She has a natural
talent for accent work, and can do anything from a straight talk doco/narration style,
through to upper class Brit chick, to kiwi-girl-next-door, to your sexy American vamp.
She relishes a challenge, so bring it on!
‘Lorna Plant’
Lorna has over 15 years experience as a voiceover, actor and presenter in Radio
and Television broadcasting. Her commercial appearances and voiceovers include
‘Family Health’, ‘Sunday Star Times’, ‘The Warehouse’ and ‘Subaru’. Programme
appearances include ‘City Life’ and ’Shortland Street’.
Lorna has a great natural read and an ability to power through lengthy scripts and has
become an ideal voiceover for a lot of IVR recording jobs, these have included work
for Teletech/Xtra, Fonterra, Meridian Energy and Fly Buys. To her repertoire are also
non-broadcast corporate videos, live comparing and instore radio ads.
She is an executive producer of children’s radio programmes and has been a three-
time finalist at the NZ Radio Awards.
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‘Diane Ponzio’
Diane was born and raised in New York City but for much of her adult life has lived
in NZ and is currently based in Auckland six months of the year. She is a trained
voiceover artist and musician and when she is not in NZ she spends the remainder of
her year traveling the world as a ‘global minstrel’. With her native Italian bloodlines,
she speaks most of the romantic languages fluently but it’s her thick urban New York
accent that is her trademark on the WoM books.
‘Emma Prowse’
Emma’s voiceover career began in 1998 when she became one of the early George
FM staffers; writing and voicing commercials and later becoming the corporate voice.
She also gained considerable experience working at 91ZM and Hauraki. Emma has
since become the phone system prompt voice for The New Zealand Herald and has
performed on-going work for The University of Auckland, EMI and Woolworths.
‘Francesca Rudkin’
Francesca Rudkin has spent the last seven years voicing television and radio
commercials, television documentaries (DO OR DIE - Lost at Sea, DO OR DIE - Lost
in the Bush), TV series (Towies), TV Promos (Nivea and Sex in the City), radio shows
(The Beat Files – ZM Network), and non broadcast radio shows (Attitude on Air New
Zealand). She has also been producing and presenting music television, reviewing
film and music on television and in print, researching and writing radio programs,
producing commercials and occasionally acting in film and television as a TV host or
journalist – the only role she ever gets!
‘Marissa Stott’
Marissa joined Word of Mouth just over years ago. In that time Marissa has amassed
a most impressive and diverse body of voice work.
‘Mary-Jane Tomasi’
Please refer to agency for Mary-Jane Tomasi’s details.
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‘Jacque Tucker’
Jacque has over 16 years experience in the broadcasting industry, and after living
in the USA and New Zealand, can provide both Kiwi and American voiceovers of
any style. Jacque’s voice can be heard on everything from TV ads for Bradfords
and 77 Broadway, to radio commercials for any product you can think of, multi-
media software and communication systems and even children’s talking books and
software. You can also hear her every day hosting the top rating breakfast show on
Classic Hits 97. FM in Auckland.
‘Sherry Wagner’
Sherry was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area and she has a “mainstream”
U.S. accent, which is not tied to any particular region. She spent 10 years in LA
working in the film industry and where she trained as a Voiceover artist, specializing
in straight voice-overs and narration. She relocated to New Zealand years ago, and
is now based in Auckland.
‘Lucy Wigmore’
Since graduating from Toi Whakaari (NZ Drama School) in 00, Lucy Wigmore has
enjoyed an exciting & varied acting career. To date, her repertoire ranges from theatre,
to film, to radio performances and advertising campaigns for acting and voice work.
Recently returned from 6 months in London, working with companies such as
Trademark Films& Out of Joint Theatre Company – Lucy has headed home to NZ with
a desire to make the most of her skill of performing ‘accents’ – which range from Irish
to South African, French to Cockney English.
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“Word of Mouth” Talent List Kids Voices
‘Kids Voices’
‘Girls’
‘Yana Colquhoun’
1-year-old Yana loves performing. Give her a stage or microphone and she’s in
her element. She’s an enthusiastic student of drama, singing and dancing and has
appeared in many school shows and competitions in New Zealand and Australia.
Yana is hardworking, energetic and responds well to direction.
‘Eden Swanson’
D.O.B.1996 Please refer to agency for Eden Swanson’s details.
‘Jaime Swanson’
D.O.B.1996 received wonderful praisewell herdirection the studio.it For such a young individual,
This young eight year old has just set foot into the world of voiceovers and has already
for work in
Jaime not only responds to and puts into action, but she has the
patience and stamina to put the work in for as long as it takes to get the job done.
A rising talent so watch this space…
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‘Boys’
‘Xavier Garneau-Roughan’
D.O.B.1999
Please refer to agency for Xavier Garneau-Roughan’s details.
‘Gabriel Sutton’
D.O.B.1998
Please refer to agency for Gabriel Sutton’s details.
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“Word of Mouth” Talent List Contacts
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