Melanie is a British Voice Actor – booked for her beautifully naturalistic narration and dialogue, a very (northern) British sense of humour and for her versatility with accents, character and approach.
She’s a trained actor and experienced VO with a high quality professional home studio working regularly as an audiobook narrator, audio drama & comedy actor, commercial voice artist and voice over for corporate, e-learning and other projects – an accomplished and highly versatile voice actor.
Winner Audiofile Earphones Award 2024
Winner One Voice Awards Best In-Store – Commercial 2024
Winner VOX Best Use of Humour – Commercial 2022
Finalist VOX Best Commercial In-store 2024
Finalist VOX Best Audiobook Narration 2024
Finalist One Voice Awards Best Audiobook Narration (Fiction) 2023.
Melanie is the proud owner of a well-constructed voice with a no-nonsense, down-to-earth kindness and compassion that works well for charity and community projects and anything with a good bit of humour in it.
An instinctively natural narrator and a versatile character actor, Melanie’s character dialogue is excellent, instantly bringing scenes to life for the listener, whether they be intensely emotional and dramatic, comedic, quiet or tense and edge-of-your-seat.
She narrates in a light northern (British) English regional accent or neutral British RP and has a great ear for accents – often being booked to narrate or voice characters with regional accents from across the UK and international accents such as South African, Croatian and Russian among many others.
Clients include Penguin Random House, Harper Collins, Dreamscape, Bloomsbury, the BBC, Cancer Research UK, MIND, Alzheimer’s Society, Bauer Media, Imagesound, The National Grid, Staropramen, University of Sheffield, University of Nottingham, the TUC and many others.
Melanie has narrated more than 90 audio books, mainly fiction across multiple genres; she is in demand for commercial radio and corporate projects from repeat clients – particularly for more unusual scripts requiring an actor’s approach or those that need a good touch with comedy.
Melanie’s custom designed and built studio is beautifully quiet with a mic that suits her voice and a tech set-up that is straightforward and effective. Hardwired to broadband via ethernet. Source Connect, Zoom, Skype, ipDTL etc all accommodated.
Every voice actor sets their own rate. All of our talents are pros, but the cost can vary depending on their experience and skill level.
Generally speaking, voice over rates depend on:
- Will the voice over be for broadcast and paid ads, or organic, non-promotional use?
- The length of the script (word count).
- Do you need the voice over fully edited and production-ready, or just the raw audio?
- Do you want to direct the voice artist in real-time, or can they record independently?
Many of our voice actors follow our pricing schedule, but you’ll find that rates are negotiable, so if you let them know what you can afford, there’s a good chance they’ll accommodate you!
