lebenslauf: After retiring from nearly 40 years of training and working as a Speech Language Pathologist, Darla moved into the field of Voice Over. She has training from Edge Studios (New York) and has been fortunate to train with two of the top talents in the field of voice overs: Vanessa Hart (for audio books and commercials) and Julie Williams (for documentary, legal and medical narration, and commercials).
Vanessa Hart helped to hone Darla’s acting, narrative and dialogue skills for delivery of fiction, documentaries, and commercials. She has said of Darla - \\\\\\\"best time I\\\\\\\'ve had in YEARS!!! Thank you for sharing your gift with me,\\\\\\\" and \\\\\\\"I would not have taken you on [as a student] if I wasn\\\\\\\'t a huge believer in your talent, your intelligence, your drive and commitment\\\\\\\"
Julie William’s coaching has helped Darla improve her ability to deliver narrative for documentaries, legal texts and medical texts. After coaching Darla, Julie had this to say about her work - \\\\\\\"Darla is great at what she does...and has a very unique sound that can\\\\\\\'t be duplicated!\\\\\\\"
Currently, Darla is one of several Voice Over artists who lend their voices to AIRS-LA: Audio Internet Reading Service of Los Angeles. Darla voices the CAT FANCY magazine podcasts for AIRS-LA.
Darla is able to produce retail quality audio books from her home studio in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
PROJECTS (COMPLETED AND ONGOING)
Recently completed audio books in the documentary/biography genre, for Redwood Audio - an imprint of McGraw-Hill:
• Sojourner Truth - Antislavery Activist by Peter Krauss, based on the Legacy Edition of the book published by Chelsea House Publishers, an imprint of Infobase Publishing, copyrighted in 2005 in the name of Chelsea House Publishers
• Rosa Parks - Civil Rights Leader by Mary Hull, based on the Legacy Edition of the book published by Chelsea House Publishers, an imprint of Infobase Publishing, copyrighted in 2007 in the name of Chelsea House Publishers
Darla has, recently completed narration of an audio book in the genre of literature/fiction, for Iambik Audio Books – Montreal, Quebec (Canada):
• The Autobiography of Jenny X by Lisa Dierbeck a publication of Mischief + Mayhem in association with OR Books, New York
kurztext: Narrator voice - intelligent, warm, conversational; broad emotional range; large repertoire of characters
