This section is usually filled with people telling you how their voice is amazing, they’ve done 15 years of training in the space of 10 years and that anything they produce will be perfect.

Naturally, it’s important to build trust, so here goes:

I’ve:

  • Trained in classical singing (then un-trained my classical singing),

  • Studied musical theatre in Dublin

  • Done workshops with some of the top VO directors and coaches in the industry

  • Nerded out for thousands of hours on microphones, studio gear, DAWs, EQs, compression, saturation and all that good stuff.

  • Trained in the Alexander Technique (Not certified)

  • Trained in MDH Breathing Co-ordination (Not certified)

  • Spent three full years asking myself “How is my current experience affecting my voice” and developed an ability to hear emotional blockages in people’s voices and help them free them. More info on this curious journey in my vocal coaching section here

  • Spent the last 10 years seeking out and doing courses with the best teachers I could find. In voiceover but also in singing, healing, therapy and diet.

  • Done a couple of Craniosacral therapy courses as well as

  • Along with thousands of hours of self teaching and exploration on singing, voice, and emotional work.

    Want me as your voice?


    OR read on for how it all started

It started with audiobooks. My love for them.
Or rather, it started with books.
Or rather, it started with my older brother forcing me to read the first paragraph of The Hobbit when I was five. (yes, it was hard)

Luckily, this didn't put me off. You see, i’ve reread The Hobbit eight times.

I started listening to audiobooks in the next year or two after that. My brothers and I were always reading to each other and doing silly voices also. I was a pretty uninhibited and wild child generally.

I remember bidding on my first portable CD player with my dad on eBay, then carrying it around the house with small speakers playing audiobook CDs taken from the library.

My love of books and audiobooks really started very young.

I remember the teacher at school asking who wanted to read aloud, me raising my hand and shouting:
Me!
Me!
Me!
…And all the children looking at me weirdly.

I remember that the love never died.

When I actually started to get into VO I found it was possible to voice other things apart from audiobooks:
Animations?
Video games?
Commercials?

What the heck?? What is this dream??

It never occurred to me that there was actually a voice behind those. Obviously there was, but I somehow never thought about it.

Well, now I’m eight years into my VO journey, and I've taught myself how to mix and master.
And I've worked with accents and voicings.
And I continue to work with the top directors and coaches in the industry to further my aptitude and ability.
My goal is always to become one with the character or with the delivery that I’m giving. Flow state. This is actually what I teach other people to do through singing, but it’s taking a little longer to come into my voice-acting.

The things I care about, I do as perfectly as I can.

This is coming purely from the heart, from this deep love that I remember started when I was five.

Well… maybe just after I was five when I’d gotten over that Hobbit trauma ;) .