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I WORK IN THE VOICE OVER INDUSTRY AS A(N): Voice Actor, Copy Writer, Voiceover Coach

HERE'S A LITTLE ABOUT ME AND MY VOICE OVER EXPERIENCE: America’s most recognizable female voice announcer, Randy Thomas has been winning accolades and opening doors for female voice artists for nearly 15 years. With over 20 years of experience as a radio personality in Detroit, New York, Miami, and Los Angeles, Randy has gone on to achieve her dreams as a voice-over artist.

She was the first woman to announce the Academy Awards, the Miss America Pageant, the Tony Awards, the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and, in 2004, became the first woman to announce the National Democratic Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. She has announced the Oscars seven times and is the first person ever to announce The Oscars, The Tonys, and The Emmys all in the same year.

Randy is currently the voice of CBS Television Distribution's “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider,” as well as the voice for Clear Channel radio stations across the country, including WASH FM Washington, DC. She is well known as the voice of Hooked on Phonics, memorably intoning the line “Call 1-800-ABC-DEFG.”

Also, Randy recently co-authored a book entitled, “Voice for Hire: Launch and Maintain a Lucrative Career in Voice-Overs” with her friend and voice over talent, Peter Rofé. The book is in bookstores now! To get on Randy and Peter Rofe's book tour and workshop mailing list please register at http://www.VoiceForHireBook.net.

RECENTLY BOOKED PROJECTS: Tony Awards, AFI’s 10 America’s 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres, and the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards

VOICE DESCRIPTION: Strong, classy, smooth

LANGUAGES: English

WEBSITE: http://randythomasvo.com

AUDIO DELIVERY METHOD: ISDN, Source Connect, FTP, AIF, MP3, WAV

EQUIPMENT: Mac Pro OSX, Pro-Tools, MBox, Telos Zephyr XStream, a Manley mic and Vox Box, Sennheiser 416 and Avalon Pre Amp.

VOICES I AM ABLE TO PERFORM: Middle Age Female

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The Care and Feeding of Your Voice

In the voice over business, the voice comes first. When you have the luxury of numerous takes, a bit of mouth noise or worse, a sore throat, can take you out of the game. To that end, I would love to share with you some tips based on some of things that have helped me over the years.

Last spring I got really sick. So sick that I thought to myself that “this is why elderly people die from the flu.” I realized that this was the sickest I had been in eight years.

In my effort to understand how I… Continue

Posted on January 12, 2009 at 9:00pm — 18 Comments

The Oscar Experience

Everyone always asks me about what it's like to announce the Oscars®. Here is a piece from my website that will give you little bit of inof about the week leading up to, and the day of, the 80th Annual Academy Awards®.

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Randy’s Oscar Blog

As I sit down two weeks after the show, many thoughts ramble through my head about my nine day whirlwind experience in Los Angeles. Now at home and regaining normalcy to my life, I am ready to share with you my day-by-day journey at the 80th Annual… Continue

Posted on June 30, 2008 at 3:29pm — 6 Comments

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At 10:25pm on November 11, 2009, Bonnie Engel Lee said…: Hi Randy. It's nice to get to know you. I wish I could offer you some new tips on mouth noise, other than the typical advice of remaining hydrated, eating green apples and avoiding dairy products. I am going to look into the speech pathology literature to see if I can find any prior references that might be relevant. If I find anything, I will let you know!

At 4:17pm on October 23, 2009, Andrew Danish said…: Hey Randy! Just wanted to let you know you can catch some of my voice this weekend on MSNBC in the documentary "Witness to Waco". I do the voice of David Koresh. Itll be on at Midnight tonight or 11pm on Sunday. Let me know what u think!

At 9:21pm on October 3, 2009, Bettye Zoller said…: Thank you so much Randy for your reply. In my teaching, I always speak of you and the students usually know of you or at least, your voice! You are an inspiration to them. Yes, I do indeed hope our paths cross and I shall be buying your book in the bookstore the moment I can. Blessings. Bettye

At 6:22pm on October 3, 2009, Bettye Zoller said…: Because I know from your postings that you are "big" on vocal health as am I (doctoral work in speech science etc too) hope you'll recommend my series of vocal health podcasts, ten, which John Florian and I are releasing as a downloadable audio off the VoiceoverXtra site and also as an audio book for purchase in the near future as soon as packaging is complete. So many people just don't know the fragility of the vocal mechanism and it's our livlihood, our instrument! As a singer, I built up the stamina to sing in the studios long hours and do vo work too..sometimes appearing in a club at night with my jazz group. That takes healthy voice and stamina. I appreciate your also stressing vocal health to people online and to your students and clients. So many coaches don't touch on that enough...

At 4:25pm on September 23, 2009, Andrew Danish said…: Thanks Randy! I will. I hope we get to work together in the near future.

all the best,
Andrew

At 9:46am on September 19, 2009, Randi Martin said…: and Happy New Year to you, my dear..
a healthy and happy
Just was turned on to this site....hey..it couldn't hurt..
hugs

At 2:07pm on September 15, 2009, Jim Lueck said…: Hi Randy!

I wish you the best with your book. I plan to get a copy and see what neat insights you Peter have to offer. I see you are based in Florida. If you ever need celebrity character voices for some of your productions, let me know. I too am based in Florida, Orlando, and I would love to work with you. Like most here, I have a home studio too.

Best regards,

Jim Lueck
Celebrity Voice Impressionist
manofvoices.com
407-412-8298

At 5:34pm on August 12, 2009, Randy Thomas said…: it has been too long since I last visited here. to all my new friends on VU thank you for reaching out to me. I am working on a video podcast with Peter Rofe from our LA book signings last month. stand by for more to come..until then please visit www.voiceforhirebook.net site to see the latest interview on Better TV.
break a lip,
Randy

At 7:35am on July 17, 2009, Randy Thomas said…: Hope everyone is having an amazing summer!! I am heading to Los Angeles where Peter and I will host 2 book signings in Hollywood and Glendale. The dates are Thursday July 30th and Friday July 31st. Please visit www.voiceforhirebook.net for more details. Looking forward to seeing all my California friends soon!!

At 3:14pm on May 22, 2009, David Atwood said…: Wow! All that AND you speak ig-pay atin-lay oo-tay?? My brother and sis STILL speak to each other like that after all these years. I was always an admirer of yours Randy, now even ore-may! hehehehe My dream gal!