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Laurie Winkel
Experience Level
26-70 Audiobooks
Studio
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Laurie’s Roles
  • Actor
  • Narrator
Laurie’s Skills
  • Accents
  • Chick Lit
  • Contemporary Romance
  • Erotica
  • Fiction
  • Fluent French
  • French
  • Home recording
  • Improv comedy
  • Movie Watcher
  • Nonfiction
  • Romance
  • Singing - alto
  • Southern accents
  • Theatre acting
  • Thrillers
  • TV/Film Actor
  • YA Fantasy
  • YA Paranormal
  • YA Realistic Fiction
  • YA Romance
  • Young adult
Description
About Laurie

As an audiobook narrator, video game, and commercial voiceover talent, I work in both English and French and specialize in sardonic YA teenaged protagonists, a host of European and American accents, sultry/velvety voiced women, vocal fry and an arsenal of character voices. I was coached by internationally renowned dialect coach Paul Meier, perhaps best known to the audiobook narrator community as the founder of the IDEA archives. ​ My natural speaking voice is of a deep, husky quality with a neutral Midwestern accent. For more adult romances and erotica, I narrate under the pseudonym "Yvonne Syn." Member o ... more f Wo-Vo; served as Ambassador at VO Atlanta 2017, and attended Faffcon 2017. less

Featured Works
  • YA Demo from home studio - Laurie C
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    Genre(-s): YA
    Gender/Age: Female - Youth
    Base Accent: American
    Dialects: American - Standard
    Keywords: Young Adult, thriller, YA, teen, British, British accent
  • Romance extract (Pseudonym Yvonne S
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    Genre(-s): Fiction - Romance
    Gender/Age: Female - Adult
    Base Accent: American
    Dialects: American - Standard
    Keywords: Home studio, romance, erotica, audiobook, audio book
  • Nonfiction sample including French
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    Genre(-s): Nonfiction - General
    Gender/Age: Female - Adult
    Base Accent: American
    Dialects: American - Standard
    Keywords: Nonfiction, French, bilingual, history, European, French history, home studio