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PLATINUM DIVISION NOMINEE 2018

SILVER DIVISION WINNER 2018

PLATINUM DIVISION NOMINEE 2019

GOLD DIVISION WINNER 2019

Let Us Introduce Ourselves

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Ralph Scott

Ralph Scott

An award-winning producer with a get-it-done (with a smile) attitude, Ralph Scott produces audiobooks, audio theatre, scripted entertainment, commercial spots, or pretty much anything within the live or recorded audio arena.

The characters Ralph creates on the spot (we lost count just north of 83) are only bested by the number of children’s verses he has written since he was handed a cocktail napkin on a dare back in 1993. (That would be just north of 1,700.) Give him three words and he’ll compose a witty poem for you in under five minutes.

Give him a studio and your manuscript and he’ll vibrantly breathe life into any character you craft.

Together with his roster of expert thespians, Ralph turns the studio into a theatre for the ear. Be sure to grab a chair the next time you download one of his audiobook productions. Dim the lights. And don’t forget the popcorn.

You’ll swear you’re in a movie.

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Todd Waites

Todd Waites

Todd is a versatile voice actor with 20 years of experience in Commercial, Audiobooks, Explainer Videos, Video Games, Audio Dramas, Narration, and Live Events. His range extends from casual and conversational, to gruff and serious, to loud announcer.

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Hannah Vandeven

Hannah Vandeven

Hannah Vandeven is a lifelong performer with a passion for bringing stories to life. She enjoys serving clients with great communication and engaging performances from her personal pro studio in the GTA. Hannah received formal acting training from Humber College School for Creative & Performing Arts. She brings youthful authenticity to genres such as cozy romance and children/young adult fiction. She has worked with brands such as Dell, Nike, Bumble and many more in the commercial realm.

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Mordecai Newman

Mordecai Newman

Mordecai (Mordy) Newman holds both a law degree and a prior MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Until his retirement, his public performances consisted mostly of arguing in front of panels of appellate judges. Since then, voice-over characterizations have scratched his itch to perform. Character gigs have included an inept Russian spy, a Southern plantation owner, a Vietnam vet suffering from agent orange exposure, and more. You can currently hear his Karloff-like narrations in a series of animated Youtube videos drawn from Joe Hill’s best selling horror novel “NOS4A2.” (See on Youtube “Christmasland is Waiting,” “The Graveyard of What Might Be,” and “Who’s Charlie?”.) He has also been the voice of Retter & Co., a subsidiary of Sotheby’s International Realty, in TV commercials that ran in the northwest. Most recently, he was featured in the audio-drama “The Fate of Hyde Keys.” Mordy is thrilled to now be part of “The Missing Peace.” mordyforvoice@gmail.com

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Tara Rolstad

Tara Rolstad

Tara Rolstad is a professional speaker, advocate and author who left a career as a nonprofit executive to help raise nieces who lived with trauma and severe mental illness. She has helped thousands of people understand the experiences of families and individuals who struggle with mental health, and learn how to support them. In addition to her work as a speaker for corporate and association audiences, she is the founder and director of Shattering Stigma with Stories: Understanding Mental Health, mental health conferences for businesses, school districts, faith communities, and other organizations. She is also the author of “OMG That’s Me! 3: Bipolar Disorder, Depression, PTSD, Mental Health and Humor”, as well as an upcoming book for parents with kids in mental health crisis.

She has also performed stand-up comedy, with Stand Up for Mental Health and Mental Health at the Mic; and has an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Roberta Jackson

Roberta Jackson

Roberta’s audio books appear on Audible, Blackstone, Spoken Realms, The National Library Service for the Blind and other platforms. Her work includes several romance genres, mysteries, horror, young adult, non-fiction, children, Shakespeare and poetry–both as a solo narrator and as characters in multi-cast audio books. She is also a character voice actor in audio dramas, podcasts, animation and video games. She comes to full-time free-lance voice work after a long career on-air in radio, including narrating history programs such as “The LBJ White House Tapes”. Her acting roles range from children’s theater to Shakespeare. More on her website:  https://www.robertajackson.com/

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Barbara Rich

Barbara Rich

Barbara Rich, owner of Richcraft Studios, is a voice actor and sound designer hailing from the high desert of Oregon in Bend where her solar-powered recording booth has been cradled in the cooling depths of her below grade (cough…basement) studio since 2016. She has had her finger in just about every voiceover genre there is with favorite projects being a 7-part animated series with the violinist Midori and just about any audiobook that she can make her way into. She is also an avid sound designer for theater and audio projects. Her theater projects include: Steel Magnolias, Here on the Flight Path, Stephanie Hero, the world premiere of Craig Fox Had a Wife, A Christmas Story, A Wrinkle in Time, Peter Pan (stage play), The Neverending Story, A Child Shall Lead, and Shakespeare in Hollywood. In her spare time, she performs on-stage either in whatever theatrical production she can win an audition for, sings with the Cascade Chorale or Jazz Central, and takes frequent walks, plays on the river or goes traveling with her dog and her family…not necessarily in that order.

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Matthew Weisgerber

Matthew Weisgerber

From a young age, Matt Weisgerber had a passion for using his voice to create characters and entertain those around him. He built on these skills, obtaining his Bachelor’s degree with a double major in psychology and music from the University of Lethbridge.

Now, he has transformed his passion for performance into a career in audiobook narration. Matt has narrated audiobooks in various genres. His vocal style is playful, dynamic and confident, and falls naturally within the YA and children’s genres.

When he’s not narrating, Matt can be found volunteering on a crisis line, and spending way too much on retro video game collectibles.

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Ben Kaplan

Ben Kaplan

• Petaluma Radio Players; 2016-2018, Several Radio Play performances, recordings, and advertising bits for local radio station
• Spring 2014; Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts; “The Cherry Orchard”, by Anton Chekhov, The Stationmaster, Directed by Leslie McCauley
• Spring 2013; Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts; “A Few Good Men”,
Judge Randolph, Directed by Laura Downing-Lee
• Spring 2011; Santa Rosa Junior College Theatre Arts;
“The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde, Merriman
Directed by Wendy Wisely

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Steve Campbell

Steve Campbell

A member of SAG-AFTRA, Steve is an award-winning narrator, versed in UK and American accents, who specializes in LitRPG and has recorded more than 150 titles totaling more than 1,500 finished audiobook hours. Steve has been nominated for multiple awards and won an Independent Audiobook Award (2019). He resides in Alberta Canada with his wife of 22 years and two boys. 

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Jason Lasky

Jason Lasky

Described as a modern-day Magellan & Renaissance Man, Jason is a published playwright, international stage & screen actor, award-winning director, voiceover artist, in-demand workshop leader, guitarist, 16-year teaching veteran, and lasagna master. He holds an M.Ed. in IB Education, an MFA in Writing for Stage and Screen, a black belt in karate, and he trained at the Actors Studio Drama School. His short film, “rise- butoh artsakh-“ was included in The First Georgian Movement Theatre Festival. Currently, based in Armenia, he is collaborating with international artists under the HOVQ Foundation as part of Dilijan’s artistic rebirth and is producing multiple audio projects under Honey to Your Ears. With his wife Svetlana he is the co-founder of the Lasky Wellbeing Approach.

www.jasonlasky.com
www.honeytoyourears.com

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Dave Jackson

Dave Jackson

Dave started his entertainment career as the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band Foxx. The band received accolades from fans all across America, and from other countries as well, for the original songs recorded by the band that were heard on rock n roll radio stations around the world. Dave toured extensively with Foxx, and recorded three cd’s, countless demos, and also composed songs for various small-budget movies and projects. Dave still writes and records new music, and along with fellow musicians in the band “October Rising,” have just released the title track for the soon to be released horror movie, “Side Effects May Vary.” When the musical touring came to a close, Dave realized that he had developed a strong voice which he could change in pitch and tone, and since he had been imitating cartoons and voices since he was a little boy, decided to give voice acting a try. Seemingly right off the bat, he was selected to record the voice of Lego Batman for some European markets, voiced commercials for The NFL and Yahoo Sports, and was picked up as the “voice” for the commercial producing company, “Eppic Films” based in Winchester, Kentucky. Since then, Dave has done hundreds of audio, and television commercials, voiced numerous video game characters, and is now the main audiobook narrator, for the popular sci-fi author, M.R.Forbes.

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Jennifer March

Jennifer March

I view storytelling as an important, and ancient, part of society and civilization. Every culture has its stories and the tellers. I am honored to be one of them and to carry on this tradition. I’ve been audiobooking since 2019, and loving it. Before audiobooks, I started a Readers Theatre group in my home town. I also created “Not Your Mother’s Storytime” – a radio show based on Selected Shorts on NRP. I then turned it into a podcast and a YouTube channel. One of the things I love about my YouTube channel is my listeners are 18-24 year old English 101 students. If I spark an interest in the classics for this new generation, I’ve done my job!
 
 I’ve learned that my strengths are in narrating moody, atmospheric stories. I infuse my narration with lots of emotion. I love to touch the listener’s heart. I studied Theater at San Francisco State University, but my passion lies in stories read out loud.
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Kaleigh Kirby

Kaleigh Kirby

What happens when you combine a bi-racial creative from a huge multi-cultural family, who trained in music theater and dance, worked professionally as a singer, dancer and choreographer, and then decided to go to law school and get her JD (partly financed by playing poker, shhh- our secret!) and started two businesses as a single parent, but desperately missed the creativity of performing? You get an authentic story-teller who excels at dialects, understands subtext and nuance, who understands the musicality and rhythm within each character and scene in each book, who understands psychology and relationship dynamics. You get Kaleigh Kirby, (and a heck of a poker face). 

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Melinda Daugherty

Melinda Daugherty

A recent recruit to the Audiobook industry, Melina brings her decades of experience in family dynamics as a licensed officer of the court working with some very tough cases involving children and parents. As such, she has a particularly unique perspective on how to invest emotion into character narration.

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John Eleby

John Eleby

Born in Huntsville, Alabama, John was raised in Germany in several cities and military bases along with two older brothers. Growing up in Germany and then in upstate New York, he had the opportunity to speak both languages at home and remains fluent in German. His career in voice over started when, having a favorite book that he wanted to share with his mother, he recorded and edited the first 18 chapters (9 hours!) because there was no audiobook available at the time. That was 14 years ago.. Over the last three years, John has taken his career in Voice Over more seriously, taking classes at VoiceTrax in Sausalito and booking regularly in Video Games, Narration, Advertising and now, Audiobooks! He currently lives in sunny Marin County, California and his mother has still never read the book.

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Raymond Pental

Raymond Pental

Ray Pental is an experienced voice actor who has narrated for Disney, The Elgin and WinterGarden Theatres in Ontario, Canada and voiced numerous commercials, instructional videos, YU-Gi-OH Arc Five character Chojiro Tokumatsu, and multiple video game characters. He primarily records from his home in Myrtle Beach South Carolina.
 
Past clients include Disney, Honda, Life Alert, Charlies Soap, Marks Outing Restaurant, Outfox Solutions, Tradeskool Interactive eLearning, 4K Media. Along with International, Regional and Local clients.
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Erick Emmanuel

Erick Emmanuel

Erick Emmanuel is an actor, commercial voice-over artist, audiobook narrator, and voice actor based in Mexico City. He speaks fluent English, as well as French, some German, and Japanese. He has over 10 years of experience as a commercial voice-over artist for international brands such as Ab InBev, Banco Santander, Grupo Modelo, Lexus, Bayer, among others. He has over 12 audiobooks published on platforms like Audible, Google, Spotify, and Storytel, where he has served both as a narrator and as the voice of various characters.

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Karen Krause

Karen Krause

Karen loves books!! She’s loved books since she found out that when you put single letters together, they make words!  And when you put words together, they can tell the most amazing stories!  She grew up with a book always in hand, whether while eating, sitting in the nearest tree, or hiding under the covers when she was supposed to be asleep.
The performing bug bit her at the ripe old age of 8, when she joined her two sisters singing with their daddy’s band. She looked for more stages on which to perform and landed the title role in her first stage play when she was in 5th grade. And that’s when her love of theatre blossomed.
When she found books on tape (literally “on tape” at the time) she discovered she could read just about any time, no matter what she was doing. It took a while for the epiphany to hit that she could read books out loud and people would actually listen to them!?
 
It’s no wonder this trained stage actress took to audiobooks like a duck to water. With skills in accents/dialects and character voices, it’s more fun than a frog in a glass of milk.
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The Studio

NOTHING CHEESY ABOUT IT!

We employ the following really cool equipment to ensure beautiful results:

MICROPHONES:

Bluebird BLUE condenser microphones

Manley, Neumann, Sennheiser, AKG, Shure, MXL, Countryman, B&O

PRE-AMPS

Scarlett Focusrite 2i2 Pre-amps

AUDIO RECORDING SOFTWARE

We mix in AUDACITY, REAPER, STUDIO ONE, and ProTools

And the people who make us sound and look so good…

Nacho

Mixing Engineer

Nacho Molino, a 3-time Grammy and 5-time Latin Grammy-winning mixing engineer, boasts over 20 years in the music industry. Starting piano at age 4 and guitar at 15, he contributed to renowned Panamanian bands. Notable achievements include PanamaRock Awards and collaborations with Ruben Blades, Carlos Vives, and CJ Ramone. Relocating to Brooklyn in 2019 and later to Farmington, NY, Nacho continues to excel, earning accolades like Latin Grammy’s Album of the Year for “Salswing” and Best Tropical Album.

Amanda

Production Coordinator

“The squeaky wheel gets the oil.”

Mother, Layman, Jack-of-all-Trades.
When not working on team efforts, Amanda Mendoza is in constant pursuit of learning & continually researching.

Her background is eclectic with experience in Essential Service, Office Administration & Promotions/Social Media Management (among other things).

As a natural Organizer & Odd-Jobs Specialist, Amanda has found herself pleasantly involved with the Production Coordination & Audio Editing processes with Squeaky Cheese Productions.

“Read more books. Ask more questions. Listen more closely.”
– quote from inspirational meme

Bob

Audio Engineer

Bob has been fixated on the squiggly lines
of audio waveforms for his entire life (so far). He’s discovered to his delight that working in the editing studio is pretty much the same during a pandemic as in regular times — and at no time do his fingers leave his hands.

Regina

Web Designer

Regina is an Award-Winning Opera and Cabaret Singer. She has recorded three albums including one on the Naxos American Classics Label. In addition to singing whenever and wherever she can (and getting paid!), she is also a voice teacher and owns and operates Singer Savvy Academy, an online academy specifically for singers who want to beef up their musicianship skills. Oh, and she designs websites! Like squeakycheeseproductions.com!

Barbara

VA/Producer

Barbara Rich, owner of Richcraft Studios, is a voice actor and sound designer hailing
from the high desert of Oregon in Bend where her solar-powered recording booth
has been cradled in the cooling depths of her below grade (cough…basement)
studio since 2016. She has had her finger in just about every voiceover genre there
is with favorite projects being a 7-part animated series with the violinist Midori and just about any audiobook that she can make her way into. She is also an avid sound designer for theater and audio projects. Her theater projects include:
Steel Magnolias, Here on the Flight Path, Stephanie Hero, the world premiere of
Craig FoxHad a Wife, A Christmas Story,
A Wrinkle in Time, Peter Pan (stage play),
The Neverending Story, A Child Shall Lead, and Shakespeare in Hollywood. In her spare time, she performs on-stage either in whatever theatrical production she can win an audition for, sings with the Cascade Chorale or Jazz Central, and takes frequent
walks, plays on the river or goes traveling with her dog and her family…not
necessarily in that order.